Christie: ‘Lying’ Biden lights racial fires

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday accused President Biden of breaking “his own rule” and “lying to the American people” about the new Georgia election law.

Christie was asked on ABC’s “This Week” about Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the AllStar Game out of Atlanta as a result of the legislation. Calling it “a symptom of what’s going on in our country right now,” Christie first defended the bill before turning his ire to the commander in chief.

“Joe Biden’s broken his own rule,” the ex-governor remarked, noting it had been 84 days since Biden entered the White House. “Now, he’s lying to the American people . . . He’s lying about this bill. He’s lying to the American people about it to cause the raging fire he said he was going to put out. I’m very disappointed.”

Christie went on to point out that Stacey Abrams, the votingrights activist who narrowly lost the state’s 2018 gubernatorial race to current Gov. Brian Kemp, had just visited New Jersey to praise its expanded voting-access efforts, despite the state providing less access than in Georgia.

“Stacey Abrams was in New Jersey, in my state, praising Phil Murphy this week for a voting law where New Jersey early voting is nine days — half of what Georgia’s is,” he continued after facing considerable pushback from the liberal members of the panel.

“Yet she’s on TV in New Jersey — I saw it myself — saying that this is one of the greatest voting expansion bills we’ve ever seen, but this is Jim Crow? I’m sorry, George,” he said, referring to Biden’s comments comparing the Georgia voting law to pre-civil-rights laws aimed at restricting black voters.

Facing continued negative reaction from the panel, specifically on his claim that Biden was lying, Christie doubled down on the charges.

“Listen, here’s what Joe Biden’s got to live with when he wakes up this morning on Easter morning: He is doing exactly what he sat around in the campaign and the transition and accused Donald Trump of doing,” Christie began.

“He is lying to cause racial divisions in this country. That’s what he accused Donald Trump of doing and he’s a liar and a hypocrite this morning.”