Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie joined a growing list of conservatives criticizing President Trump's continued attempts to reverse Joe Biden's election victory.
Trump and Republicans have filed more than 30 election-related lawsuits so far, with most being dismissed, withdrawn or rejected. Not a single court has found evidence of voter fraud.
"Quite frankly, the conduct of the president's legal team has been a national embarrassment," Christie said in an interview on ABC News' "This Week." Christie specifically pointed to the behavior of Trump lawyer Sidney Powell who Christie says is "unwilling to go on TV and defend and lay out the evidence that she supposedly has."
"This is outrageous conduct by any lawyer," Christie said, adding that Trump's legal team discusses fraud "outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom they don't plead fraud and they don't argue fraud."
Powell was dropped by the campaign's legal team on Sunday according to a statement released by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. "Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own," the statement reads. "She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity."
"You have an obligation to present the evidence," Christie said. "The evidence has not been presented. And you must conclude — as [Fox News host] Tucker Carlson even concluded the other night — that if you're unwilling to come forward and present the evidence, it must mean the evidence doesn't exist."
The normally Trump-friendly Carlson spoke out against Trump's legal team on Thursday saying Powell "never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another. Not one."
Pennsylvania U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann chastised the president's legal team in a 37-page ruling on Saturday. "In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state," Brann wrote.
Christie's remarks come as more Republicans are speaking out against Trump's attempts to disenfranchise the American electorate.
Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio wrote an op-ed published on Monday arguing that Trump should begin working with Biden's team on the transition. He said there remains "no evidence as of now of any widespread fraud or irregularities that would change the result in any state."
One of Trump's most loyal corporate supporters, Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Steve Schwarzman has also admitted that Biden won and it's time to move on.
"I'm a fan of good processes," Schwarzman said. "In my comments three days after the election, I was trying to be a voice of reason and express why it's in the national interest to have all Americans believe the election is being resolved correctly. But the outcome is very certain today, and the country should move on."
Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania used the Brann decision as an opportunity to ask the president to move on and to congratulate Biden.
"With today's decision," Toomey said, "President Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania."
"I congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory. They are both dedicated public servants and I will be praying for them and for our country."
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.