Christie Savages DeSantis On Slavery History Lessons

“First of all, ‘I didn’t do it and I’m not involved in it’ are not the words of leadership. You know, look, Governor DeSantis started this fire with the bill that he signed, and now he doesn’t want to take responsibility for whatever is done in the aftermath of it.

“And from listening and watching his comments, he’s obviously uncomfortable. The fact is that Gov. DeSantis starts these things for political advantage. I’m talking about governors micromanaging curriculum in schools.

“And the fact is that, you know, if this was such a big issue for Governor DeSantis, he had four years to do this. He only started to focus on this when he decided he wanted to run for president and tried to get to the right of Donald Trump.

“So I think people see this as politically manipulative. We’re dividing our country into smaller and smaller and smaller pieces, and politicians are pitting them against each other to create conflict.” – Chris Christie, on Face The Nation.

Chris Christie on DeSantis and the new Florida curriculum about slavery: “‘I didn’t do it’ and ‘I’m not involved in it’ are not the words of leadership.” pic.twitter.com/9gYnXjDH1v

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2023