Gov. Chris Christie has been silent and largely missing from the public eye since Donald Trump’s lewd comments on an Access Hollywood 2005 tape became public.
Three days. That’s a long time for Christie, the governor of New Jersey and a senior Trump advisor, to eschew public comment, to avoid microphones, to skip every opportunity to wrap himself in the flag of Trump’s insanity and politics of division.
But Tuesday, Christie finally surfaced and seemed to say all the right things.
Appearing on WFAN's "Boomer and Carton," the governor told Craig Carton that the 2005 video of Trump is "completely indefensible and I won't and haven't defended it."
Christie also said that Trump's apology was inadequate.
"He should have been much more direct and focused on just saying sorry and only saying sorry," said Christie. "When you're going to make an apology like that, you need to be focused on it (alone.)"
Christie even went so far as to say his support wavered over the weekend because of the comments.
"You certainly have to think about it," said Christie, when asked if he considered whether the mogul was the appropriate choice for president.
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But then, poof, Christie became himself again, an opportunistic pol hoping for a place in a Trump administration.
"I've known him for a long time and am really upset by what I heard, but in the end this election is about bigger issues than just that so at this point I still support him," Christie said on WFAN radio.
Think about it: This election is about issues that are bigger than … sexual assault, sexual harassment, groping women, all things Trump admitted to in the second presidential debate … and that’s why Christie says he is still backing Trump. Bigger issues. Makes you wonder what Trump would have to do to lose Christie’s support.
On Friday, Kelly Oxford, a Canadian author, screenwriter, social media blogger and microblogger, posted this on her Twitter feed:
By Monday, 27 million had responded or visited her page. Think of them as voters, Gov. Christie, now, talk again about “bigger issues.”