新泽西前州长克里斯·克里斯蒂可以说是2024年共和党总统候选人中最愿意攻击唐纳德·特朗普的人，他抨击了这位前总统的行为，引来了人群的欢呼和嘲笑。
“他不愿意为所犯的任何错误承担责任。他的任何缺点。以及他做过的任何事。这不是领导力，每个人都是领导力的失败，”克里斯蒂在信仰大会上对与会者的嘘声说周五在华盛顿特区举行的自由联盟会议。
“你想嘘就嘘吧，”克里斯蒂反驳道。“但问题是:我们的信仰告诉我们，人们必须为自己的行为负责。人们必须站出来，为自己的所作所为负责，”他说，赢得了观众中其他人的欢呼。
这位连任两届的新泽西州州长在大约10分钟的讲话中只提到过一次特朗普的名字，但他非常重视信仰和性格，认为这是成功领导人的必备素质。
“我的天主教信仰告诉我们，性格并不意味着你是完美的。这并不意味着你没有罪恶或过错，”克里斯蒂说。“但我相信我的信仰对我的要求是，当我犯罪时，当我犯错时，当为我工作的人也犯错时，我必须承认这一点，我必须承担责任。”
他继续说道:“各位，请注意一位从不犯错的领导人。当心一个没有缺点的领导。提防这样的领导，他说当出了问题时，是其他所有人的错。”
事后，克里斯蒂与媒体谈笑风生，他说他相信“那个房间里很多有信仰的人”都想从他那里听到真相。
“听着，伙计们，我们不能假装唐纳德·特朗普是一个有个性的人，”他说。“这是一个收买了一个色情明星。这是一个经常撒谎的家伙。这个家伙虐待为他工作的人。"
克里斯蒂是特朗普的前盟友，他的竞选活动取决于与特朗普面对面的较量，他在宣布参选后告诉美国广播公司新闻的乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯，他认为获得提名的唯一途径是通过前总统。
“共和党总统候选人提名只有一条路，唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)走在最前面，你必须穿过他，提出反对他的理由，”克里斯蒂说。
在周五的演讲后，克里斯蒂在接受CNN采访时对嘘声置之不理。
“我不会根据我面对的人来改变我的信息。那将是缺乏诚信，我不会那样做，”克里斯蒂说。
“你知道，事实是，当我离开时，观众中有很多人站着欢呼，也有一些人在起哄，”他说。“但没有人想知道我在想什么。”
特朗普被击中了全面的37项指控本月早些时候，特别顾问杰克·史密斯办公室打来电话，指控他故意保留包含国家最敏感机密的文件。特朗普一再否认有任何不当行为，并批评司法部和美国司法部长办公室进行政治“政治迫害”。
这位前总统此前被曼哈顿大陪审团起诉带电的34项伪造商业记录的重罪指控与2016年封口费的一笔付款有关。否认所有不法行为的特朗普对所有34项指控提出无罪抗辩。
在共和党总统候选人提名的竞争中，特朗普遥遥领先于包括克里斯蒂在内的所有竞争对手。
Chris Christie booed at Faith and Freedom Conference after criticizing Trump
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, arguably the 2024 Republican presidential candidate most willing to attack Donald Trump, lambasted the former president over his conduct, drawing cheers and jeers from the crowd.
“He's unwilling to take responsibility for any of the mistakes that were made. Any of the faults that he has. And any of the things that he's done. And that is not leadership everybody that is a failure of leadership," Christie said to boos from attendees at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
“You can boo all you want,” Christie shot back. “But here’s the thing: Our faith teaches us that people have to take responsibility for what they do. People have to stand up and take accountability for what they do," he said, garnering cheers from others in the audience.
The former two-term governor of New Jersey mentioned Trump by name only once in his roughly 10-minute-long remarks, but he focused heavily on faith and character as essential qualities of a successful leader.
“My Catholic faith teaches us that character doesn't mean you're perfect. It doesn't mean that you're free of sin or faults,” Christie said. “But what I believe my faith requires of me is when I do sin, when I do make mistakes, when people who work for me do the same, that I must admit it, that I must take responsibility.”
He continued: “Beware, everybody, of a leader who never makes mistakes. Beware of a leader who has no faults. Beware of a leader who says that when something goes wrong, it's everybody else's fault.”
Gaggling with the press afterward, Christie said that he believed that “a lot of people of faith in that room” wanted to hear the truth from him.
“Look, guys, we can't pretend that Donald Trump is a man of character,” he said. “This is a guy who paid off a porn star. This is a guy who has regularly lied. This is a guy who has abused people who've worked for him.”
Christie, a former Trump ally, has hinged his campaign on going toe-to-toe with Trump, telling ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos after announcing his candidacy that the only path he sees to the nomination is through the former president.
“There's only one lane to the Republican nomination for president, and Donald Trump is at the head of it, and you have to go right through him and make the case against him,” Christie said.
Following his speech on Friday, Christie brushed off being booed during an interview on CNN.
“I'm not going to change my message depending on who I go in front of. That would be a lack of integrity, and I won't do that,” Christie said.
“You know, the fact is that there are a lot of people in that audience who were standing and cheering when I left, and there were some that were booing,” he said. “But no one left wondering what I think.”
Trump was hit with a sweeping 37-count indictment from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office earlier this month, alleging that he willfully retained documents containing the nation's most sensitive secrets. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and criticized the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney general's office of conducting a political "witch hunt."
The former president was previously indicted by a Manhattan grand jury and charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to one of those 2016 hush money payments. Trump, who has denied all wrongdoing, entered a plea of not guilty to all 34 counts.
Trump holds a healthy lead over all rivals, including Christie, in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
