Former prosecutor and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that President Trump should not meet face-to-face with special counsel Robert Mueller unless there are credible allegations against him.
“No,” Christie said on ABC when asked if Trump should be interviewed directly by Mueller.
“I don’t think there’s been any allegations, credible allegations against the President of the United States, and I don’t think the President of the United States, unless there are credible allegations, which I don’t believe there are, should be sitting across from a special counsel,” he said. “I don’t think they should do that.”
Former NJ @GovChristie says he doesn’t think Pres. Trump should sit down with Special Counsel Mueller: “I don’t believe so. Listen, I don’t think there’s been any…credible allegations against the President of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/S5FgMw1cqp
— ABC News (@ABC) January 30, 2018
When pressed by George Stephanopoulos on whether Trump has questions to answer about possible obstruction of justice, Christie disagreed.
“No, I don’t think he does at this point, George. But the fact is, that that’s a very high standard to meet,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve met that high standard yet.”
Christie said that despite about nine months of talk about the Mueller probe into Russian meddling in the election and Trump’s possible coordination with Russia, people can only speculate about Mueller’s information and strategy.
“Only Bob Mueller really knows what he knows, and we won’t know it for a while,” he said. “So everybody who speculates about this stuff, George, they’re throwing darts at the wall with a blindfold on.”
