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Chris Christie

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Chris Christie served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018 and ran for the Republican presidential nomination in both 2016 and 2024. Before his governorship, he served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and he is the author of several books, including Let Me Finish.

34statements → 9claims → 5claims resolved → 60%fully supported → 4.03/5average certainty → 3.47/5average debate potential → 4.1/5argument clarity · the sources → 53said about them ↓

3 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 3 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 7 assertions · 13 opinions · 3 insights · 4 disclosures · 5 what ifs · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Chris argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Christie: Soros group is electing liberal prosecutors who refuse to prosecute
“This is the Soros group going around and electing these completely liberal prosecutors who say, no, I don't, I'm not going to prosecute these crimes anymore.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:04:46 In conversation with Chris Christie

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.1 / 5 directness 4.3 · coherence 4.4 · precision 4.3 · compression 3.7

redirected or did not address 3 of 14 assessed questions (21%). Watch them ▸

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

270 words/min while actually speaking · 14.8 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 12,061 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Chris Christie said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Christie: Donald Trump does not actually believe the 2020 election was stolen
“I believe, given what I know, that Donald Trump does not believe that the election was stolen. That's what I believe from knowing him for 22 years and from being with him in much of the pre-election period and him expressing his very genuine concerns about the…”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:31:17 In conversation with Chris Christie
Disclosure
Christie advocates raising Social Security retirement age and means testing
“On the entitlement side, I think I'm the only person who's been talking about this and saying out loud, we've got to consider raising retirement age and we've got to consider means testing and eligibility for social security.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 6:49 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Donald Trump was a better 2016 choice than Hillary Clinton
“So I defaulted into Trump because I thought he was a better choice than Hillary Clinton. And by the way, still do think he was a better choice than Hillary Clinton.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 16:44 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Hunter Biden joined Burisma board solely due to Joe Biden's influence
“None.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 21:15 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Trump, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy foreign policies are hopelessly naive
“And this is where I think that the Trump DeSantis, Ramaswamy foreign policies are so hopelessly ill-informed and naive.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 33:57 In conversation with Chris Christie
Disclosure
Christie: I would order federal prosecutors to take over local prosecutions
“What I would do would be to instruct the attorney general to instruct the U S attorneys in the cities with these kinds of problems. That we are taking over the prosecution of violent and drug crime in those cities.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:03:03 In conversation with Chris Christie
Assertion Supported
Christie: Soros group is electing liberal prosecutors who refuse to prosecute
“This is the Soros group going around and electing these completely liberal prosecutors who say, no, I don't, I'm not going to prosecute these crimes anymore.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:04:46 In conversation with Chris Christie
What-if
Christie: I would not have brought the NY or Georgia Trump indictments
“I would have indicted both federal cases. I would not have indicted the New York case or the Atlanta case as to Donald Trump.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:17:56 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Sending Donald Trump to prison would not make sense
“I don't think that it makes any sense for Donald Trump to go to jail, and it's not just because he's Donald Trump. It has more to do, quite frankly, with the fact that he'd probably be 79 years old Before he'd be ready to go to jail.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:20:05 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Actions of January 6th rioters were unlawful and require imprisonment
“What I want to say about it though, is that what they did on January six was Unlawful. It was extremely serious and it requires imprisonment.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:22:37 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Trump is running for president to get retribution against enemies
“No, I think he wants retribution from the seat of power for everybody who thinks did him wrong.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:34:10 In conversation with Chris Christie
What-if
Christie: Trump would have willingly accepted overturning the 2020 election
“I don't think he would have any, he would have had any problem with the election being overturned. And I think if it was, he would have been more than happy to have his rear end sleeping in the white house tonight.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:34:42 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Trump is the only president since Bush 41 not humbled by office
“Every president going back to Bush, 41, every one of them, regardless of my disagreements with them on policy were matured and humbled by the office, except for him. Well, so the office made him worse. It made him a worse person.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:35:07 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Trump 2016 campaign was too disorganized to conspire with Russia
“That campaign was so bad and so disorganized, they couldn't have arranged a two-car funeral, let alone conspired with the Russian government to interfere with the election.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:37:17 In conversation with Chris Christie
What-if
Christie: Trump wouldn't face prosecution if he returned documents when requested
“If he had turned over the documents he illegally had at any point when he was being requested to from February of 20, 21 through to when the search occurred, there would be no prosecution.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:38:52 In conversation with Chris Christie
Assertion Supported
Christie: Kushner and Ivanka made $40M+ yearly in White House, $2B from Saudis
“Jared and Ivanka making 40 plus million dollars a year while they were in the White House, getting two billion from the Saudis to invest after they leave the White House”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:44:15 In conversation with Chris Christie
Assertion Partly supported
Christie: Save America PAC paid $60k to Guilfoyle and $208k to Melania's stylist
“That same organization paid Kimberly Guilfoyle's 60 grand to give a three-minute speech on January sixth and pay 208,000 dollars to Melania's stylist as political strategy.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:45:07 In conversation with Chris Christie
Disclosure
Christie: Endorsed Trump in 2016 to stop Hillary Clinton
“I endorsed him because I was convinced he was going to be the Republican nominee for president. And I didn't want Hillary Clinton to be the president.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 15:55 In conversation with Chris Christie
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Chris Christie: Ukraine joining NATO is a foregone conclusion
“I think it is now a foregone conclusion that Ukraine will be admitted to NATO, and frankly, it's got to be now, I think, one of the penalties and one of the prices that Putin pays for his aggression.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 28:05 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: $877B defense budget shows clear waste given artillery shell shortages
“There's no doubt that when you see us spending eight hundred seventy seven billion and we don't have 155 millimeter artillery shells that there's waste.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 42:07 In conversation with Chris Christie
Disclosure
Christie: Would deploy National Guard to border, not invade Mexico for cartels
“No, I, no, I w I would not. I would put national guard at the border to work with customs and border patrol to stop the fentanyl cartels from getting in to our country.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:00:46 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: New York City is at its worst point since the 1970s
“It is the worst I've seen New York City since the late seventies.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:05:53 In conversation with Chris Christie
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Christie: White House interference in DOJ began under President Obama
“I think that started in the Obama years with Eric Holder. When you appoint your wingman attorney general, I guess that's what happens. And the fact is that It's continued through the Trump years and now through the Biden years.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:15:11 In conversation with Chris Christie
Opinion
Christie: Hillary Clinton was the worst presidential candidate in his lifetime
“It was amateurish and it won because they ran against the worst presidential candidate in my lifetime in Hillary Clinton.”
Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:37:32 In conversation with Chris Christie

Show 10statements(10 left)

The other half of the tape: Chris Christie's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 47 times in 15 episodes on All-In. 6 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 31David Sacks 8David Friedberg 4Bill Gurley 3Chamath Palihapitiya 1

Statements about Chris Christie, by other people (6)

Opinion
Sacks: Christie, Pence, Haley, and Scott are out of step on Ukraine
“They're completely out of step. With the Republican Party as it stands today.”
David Sacks Aug 26, 2023 ▶ 1:12:02 E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
Opinion
Chamath: Chris Christie took a low-key racist jab at Vivek Ramaswamy
“The dull point of the debate for me was that he, I thought, took a kind of like a low key racist jab at Vivek”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 26, 2023 ▶ 1:26:22 E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Calacanis predicts Donald Trump will drop out within 6 to 12 months
“I believe that you're going to see Chris Christie and Vivek surge. It's going to be a three horse race with DeSantis. And I think Trump's going to be out of the race in the next six to 12 months.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 1:14:43 E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
Opinion
Friedberg: Vivek Ramaswamy won on dynamism but failed on debate policy
“I think Vivek was by far the winner on dynamic. He had the hardest hitting biggest comeback with a very close second being Chris Christie. But I do think that Vivek got taken apart when it comes to content. And I have real concerns about his personality. There…”
David Friedberg Aug 26, 2023 ▶ 57:08 E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
Opinion
Calacanis: Christie and Ramaswamy are strong candidates due to self-reliance focus
“This is why I think Chris Christie and Vivek are like really good candidates is because they're not looking at handouts or blaming the government or looking to the government to solve problems, but looking at your community, looking inside yourself and saying,…”
Jason Calacanis Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 43:41 E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
Disclosure
Calacanis plans to vote for Chris Christie in the 2024 presidential election
“I'm going to vote for Chris Christie, I think.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 14, 2023 ▶ 56:28 E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
In conversation with Chris Christie Sep 8, 2023 1h 3m
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