Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie on Sunday said that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows potentially getting his Georgia indictment moved to federal court “really won’t change matters all that much.”
Christie, a former United States attorney, and the former New Jersey governor, was asked Sunday during an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation about Meadows’s request to move his state charges to federal court. Meadows was charged alongside former President Donald Trump last week on RICO charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
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“He’s got an argument to make,” Christie said of Meadows. “There’s no doubt about that under the statutes, there’s an argument to make.”
As Mark Meadows seeks to move his charges in the Fulton County indictment to federal court, 2024 GOP candidate @govchristie says, “there’s definitely an argument to be made.”
“It really won’t change matters all that much,” he adds. “All of the charges must remain the same.” pic.twitter.com/vdi9gxRcak
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 27, 2023
“Here’s a federal judge who’s going to be hearing that, and he’s going to want to hear all the different evidence and the balancing of the interests in these venue decisions on that basis,” he continued. “So, is there an argument to be made? There’s definitely an argument to be about switching venue to federal court.”
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Trump, Meadows, and 17 others were named in a 41-count indictment handed down in Fulton County, Georgia, earlier this month that accuses the group of trying to subvert the state’s 2020 election results.
The former Trump chief of staff had asked a court to block his arrest while he petitioned to move the case to federal court, though that request was denied. He turned himself in on Thursday and paid a $100,000 bond.
