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- "No more Oreos for either of us, Chris. Don't feel bad," Trump said
- Since endorsing Trump this spring, Christie has taken on a significant role in the campaign
Lawrenceville, New Jersey (CNN)When Donald Trump stepped on stage Thursday night, the event had all the makings of a normal Trump rally, but the podium read "New Jersey" instead of "Trump."
That's because the presumptive Republican nominee was raising money here for his former rival-turned-supporter Chris Christie.
"So you know Chris paid off his entire campaign debt tonight," Trump said.
The billionaire businessman also had a little fun with the New Jersey governor. As usual, Trump was lamenting Nabisco's decision to move jobs to Mexico, and he declared that he's not eating Oreos anymore.
He then pointed to Christie and asked, "You're not eating Oreos anymore, are you?"
"No more Oreos for either of us, Chris. Don't feel bad," Trump said, as the crowd awkwardly laughed.
Since endorsing Trump this spring, Christie has taken on a significant role in the campaign. He has appeared with the candidate at election night events and was recently announced as the chairman of Trump's transition team.
Thursday night's event, with a ticket price of $200, was held to retire Christie's remaining campaign debt from his White House bid. At the end of March, the New Jersey governor had about $250,000 in debt, according to financial reports. Trump also appeared at a smaller, private fundraiser for the New Jersey Republican Party that had a higher ticket price of $25,000.
Trump got in on some of the New Jersey pride, which could be felt from the raucous audience. Though small, it was just as rowdy as any normal Trump rally.
"There's nothing like New Jersey. Wiseguys, so many wiseguys," Trump said, commenting on what some of the men in the crowd were shouting about Trump's opponents. "Tell you what, if you can make it in New Jersey, you can do just about anything you want in life."
He also threw in some tough-guy humor.
"We are not going to be the stupid country anymore. We are viewed as the stupid country," he said. "We're like a big, big sloppy bully that gets punched in the face and goes down. You ever see a bully get knocked out? It's a terrible thing unless you're doing the punching -- then it's OK."
Trump spoke just hours after Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton told CNN he was not "qualified" to run for president. Referencing the attack, Trump pointed to some of the scandals that have dogged her campaign and argued that it's an "absolute disgrace" that she's allowed to run for president.
He also weighed in on the plane crash in the Mediterranean Sea, calling it a "terrible tragedy" and definitively saying it was an act of terror. He railed against Clinton for not using the term "radical Islamic terrorism."
"She doesn't want to use that term, she refuses to use that term," he said. "I'm saying to myself, what just happened about 12 hours ago? A plane got blown out of the sky, and if anybody thinks it wasn't blown out of the sky, you're 100% wrong, folks."
For his part, Christie defended his decision to back Trump, which he said "shocked" the world back in March. Christie was the first sitting governor and one of the first so-called establishment Republicans to endorse the candidate.
"I know that New Jersey, on June 7, on primary day, with our votes and our delegates, are going to be the people who put him officially over the top as the Republican nominee," Christie said as he introduced Trump, with most of the New Jersey governor's family on stage behind him.
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來源: TJKCB 於 2016-05-22 12:27:08 [檔案] [博客] [轉至博客] [舊帖] [給我悄悄話] 本文已被閱讀：1859 次 (60388 bytes)
BeijingGirl1 2016-05-22 15:12:01 回複 悄悄話 如果川普真當選就熱鬧了 - 民主黨肯定反對他， GOP也反對他（至今GOP大佬還說沒準備好接受他）；他能做成什麽事呢？
謙虛謹慎的貓 2016-05-22 14:33:34 回複 悄悄話 基本讚同樓主的想法。 做為華人，最糟糕的做法是呆在家裏不投票。 盡管兩個候選人都不怎麽樣，我們還是要把選票投給一個相對可以接受的候選人。 哪怕投錯了，最起碼兩黨都會重視華人的投票權利，更加關注華人的要求。
對於川普，我最擔心的是白種族主義會借著這個機會東山再起。 如果那樣，遭殃的將不僅是墨裔和非裔。正所謂城門失火，殃及池魚。
o,dear 2016-05-22 13:51:27 回複 悄悄話 Hillary 更可怕。
頤和園 2016-05-22 12:59:09 回複 悄悄話 不會選川普，但也不喜歡克林頓，糾結呀糾結！
大號螞蟻 2016-05-22 12:53:13 回複 悄悄話 前麵還說是據說，後麵就當實據。自相矛盾。打擊川普，這種謠言曲解的手法已經證明是無效甚至反效果的。
誠信 2016-05-22 11:37:53 回複 悄悄話 Trump 遠遠不是一個智力上足夠做美國總統的人，他的言論基本上就是“痞子運動好得很”的吆喝，而且異常粗魯， excessively rude， far disqualified indeed.
Although I am also dissatisfied with Hillary for her obvious opportunism, but she is much better than Trump in overall comparison.
惜福666 2016-05-22 11:25:42 回複 悄悄話 說得挺有道理的