Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie determined that Mark Meadows’ cooperation with special counsel Jack Smith represents a major blow to Donald Trump in his election interference case.

The former New Jersey governor joined Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Wednesday, and they talked about ABC News’ reporting that Trump’s former White House chief of staff testified against the former president before a grand jury in exchange for immunity. This came up while Christie mocked Trump over being fined $10,000 for violating his gag order again in his New York civil fraud lawsuit.

“He can’t help himself,” Christie snarked. He then turned to Trump’s Truth Social offensive against Meadows:

The walls are closing in around him. I understand that, and more importantly, he understands that. I was there in 2020 when Mark Meadows was chief of staff, regularly preparing Donald Trump for the debates against Joe Biden. I can tell you that Mark Meadows was velcroed to Donald Trump’s hip in the White House at that time.

That means that Mark Meadows knows everything. Everything that Donald Trump said, and did, and ordered other people to do on his behalf, and just as importantly, everything that he was told about the lack of facts to back up his contention that the election was stolen. Yet he continued to act as he did then and as he does now.

Christie said Trump’s Meadows post “disturbed” him because it was “clearly an attempt to influence and intimidate Mark Meadows, who we now have every reason to believe he’s a witness for the government against Donald Trump.”

“His conduct is showing you the walls are closing in on him,” Christie emphasized. “The Republican party needs to look at this and say no matter what you think of what kind of president Donald Trump was, this is not going to be a pretty campaign if he’s the nominee of our party. We need to pull away from the precipice here and pick someone that will actually make Joe Biden the focus of the next election, not Donald Trump.”

Christie rounded this out by mocking Trump for why he always seems to have problems with his lawyers:

He told me that himself, in December of 2020 ,that he had a hard time getting any good lawyers to work for him. He wanted to know why that was. At the time, what I said to him, there’s two reasons: one, you don’t listen to advice, and two, you don’t pay your bills. Lawyers aren’t going to work for somebody that does either of those, let alone both.

Watch above via Fox News.

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