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Some of these issues to see if he s changed his position to round up votes. it is interesting there what he is talking about is gun control and chris tisty is the start of his career, very start of the political career 20 years ago he was in favor of forms of gun control in new jersey. in 1993, he set about to run for the state legislator, the star ledger newspaper covered it. he said the issue which energized me to get into the race is to repeal new jersey s ban on assault weapons. in today s society, no one needs a semiautomatic assault weapon. that was what chris christie said in 1993 and dropped out before it and then two years later ran again. we can show you this. this is a flier from that campaign. this is chris christie advocating the return of the assault weapons ban in new jersey. he lost that primary in 1995. ....
The strategy is to scare us. i mean, the best triumph they can have is for all of us to huddle in our homes and not go anywhere. then they succeed. so we go out to live our lives as normal. that s our way of victory over the terrorists. i want to ask you about what donald trump has been saying and he repeated it last night about what happened in jersey city after 9/11. it s been disputed soundly by a number of people, fact-checkers, but let me play his latest comments on this. i took heat because i said in new jersey and in a new jersey setting, i said very strongly and very correctly, i said, there are people over there and they were dancing in the street. and they were dancing on rooftops. there s a column this morning by john farmer, a former attorney general of new jersey, and he at the time, well, he wrote today in the star-ledger whatever the message, it is just plain wrong to cite thousands of ....
He s a remarkable talent with a silver tongue but if you look carefully, you see that that tongue is forked like a serpent s. that is not your normal kind of bad hometown press, right? that s a column that just ran in the star ledger. and as governor of new jersey chris christie also has the rare displeasure of having the other de facto hometown paper of some of his constituents being the new york times. the new york times today in its own editorial about chris christie running for president quoted the star ledger extensively on their chris christie tells lies hypothesis and off the editorial page of the new york times news coverage of his announcement today, there s this. quote, the economic recover he promised has turned into a cascade of ugly credit downgrades and anemic job growth. the pension system has descended into a morass of missed payments, and they have conspired to mire an entire town in traffic and the governor s office in scandal. 3 1/2 years ago, christie suchee ....
Important thing we can say? the other big candidate was to explain to people what a mess new jersey is and how he hasn t solved any of the big problems. but people will find that out, if he gets traction in the polls, his opponents will point that out. the thing that we need to express to america now is to don t trust what he says. he s constantly telling these lies that are just over the top, hair-raising type of lies. like completely contradictory and you feel like he s good at it. you feel like if you weren t warned, you might believe you should otherwise be suspicious of? now i m going back to all the stuff i did believe and make sure i double check it. because he s very convincing. he speaks with such conviction and clarity. and he seems sincere. and i wonder psychologically if he believes this stuff. he s got to know it s not true at some point. do you feel like you are in tune with your audience at the star ledger, in tune with your readers in that very blunt assessmen ....
That is not your normal kind of bad hometown press, right? that s a column that just ran in the star ledger. and as governor of new jersey, chris christie also has the rare displeasure of having the other de facto hometown paper of some of his constituents being the new york times. the new york times today in its own editorial about chris christie running for president quoted the star ledger extensively on their chris christie tells lies hypothesis, and off the editorial page of the new york times news coverage of his announcement today, there s this. quote, the economic recover he promised has turned into a cascade of ugly credit downgrades and anemic job growth. the pension system has descended into a morass of missed payments, and they have conspired to mire an entire town in traffic and the governor s office in scandal. 3 1/2 years ago, christie seemed such an anecdote for all that ailed the town, but now a staggering 55% of primary voters ....