Chris Christie Shreds Jared Kushner’s Father: ‘One Of the Most Loathsome, Disgusting Crimes That I Prosecuted’
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Chris Christie spricht am 20. Oktober 2018 auf der unparteiischen politischen Versammlung Politicon in Los Angeles.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie shredded Jared Kushner’s father — who he once prosecuted for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering — during a segment on PBS’s Firing Line With Margaret Hoover on Tuesday.
“I want to talk about Jared Kushner, because, frankly, it comes down to … he’s the one who fired you,” Hoover said during the interview, before Christie responded: “That’s what Steve Bannon told me, yes.”
“You believe that because there’s history between the two of you,” the public affairs show host continued.
“Between me and his father, not between me and him,” Christie, who served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey between 2010 and 2018, clarified.
“Would you separate your experience if your father had been put in jail from the prosecutor who put him in jail?” Hoover pressed, referring to the fact that Christie was the former U.S. Attorney who put billionaire real estate developer Charles Kushner behind bars in the mid-2000s.
Christie responded: “If my father was guilty, I would. Mr. Kushner pled guilty. He admitted the crimes. And so what am I supposed to do as a prosecutor? I mean, if a guy hires a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and videotapes it, and then sends the videotape to his sister, to attempt to intimidate her from testifying before a grand jury, do I really need any more justification than that?”
“I mean, it’s one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was U.S. Attorney. And I was U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, Margaret, so we had some loathsome and disgusting crime going on there,” he added.
© Dith Pran/The New York Times Charles Kushner, second from right, was sent to prison after pleading guilty to several crimes in 2004. Christie made headlines in 2004 when then 50-year-old Charles Kushner pleaded guilty to 16 counts of assisting in the filing of false tax returns, one count of retaliating against a cooperating witness and one count of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission. Shortly after, the U.S. Attorney released a statement calling the deal “a great victory for the people of New Jersey.”
At the time of the conviction, Jared Kushner was studying business and law at New York University. Years later, in 2014, he admitted to The Real Deal, a New York real estate news publication, that it was his father’s proceedings that put him off the idea of being a criminal lawyer.
“Durch die Verhaftung meines Vaters wurde mir klar, dass ich nicht mehr Staatsanwalt werden wollte”, sagte Kushner. “Das Gesetz ist so differenziert. Wenn Sie Mörder verurteilen, ist es eine Sache. Es ist oft ziemlich klar. Wenn Sie sich mit Wirtschaftskriminalität beschäftigen, gibt es viele Nuancen. Als ich die Situation meines Vaters sah, war das Krieg natürlich.” Ich möchte einfach nicht auf die andere Seite, auf meine und die Familien, in denen ich das Tue, Schmerzen zufügen, egal ob es richtig ist oder nicht. “
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