Christie Christie blasts NYT's Haberman over hypocritical gun control debate

New Jersey's former Republican governor Chris Christie took issue with New York Times senior political reporter Maggie Haberman's ironic response to the “gun control problem.”

Senators calls for "realistic gun controls" in the face of growing mass shootings

During a recent interview on ABC’s “Powerhouse Roundtable”, Haberman unexpectedly claimed that the Republican Party was purging anyone who disagreed with the Republican Party's orthodoxies.

Speaking a few weeks ago in a state where 19 children and two teachers were killed in a deadly elementary school shooting, Trump supported Republican calls to resist new gun restrictions and called instead for increased mental health services and school security measures.

In the meantime, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) challenged gun control advocate David Hogg to meet to discuss “common sense solutions” to recent school shootings, including the February 2018 shooting at Hogg’s Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which led him into advocacy for gun control.

.@RepMTG: "I'll be voting no. I'm encouraging every single Republican in D.C., members of the House & members of the Senate, to vote no on all of this radical Democrat gun control that has no common sense, is completely useless, & is going to hurt Americans' right to bear arms." pic.twitter.com/qIzMXiahuX

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) June 6, 2022

In the opening remarks, Stephanopoulos asked Haberman about her moral courage in responding to  Chris Jacobs as a Republican Congressman from New York who came out in support of an assault weapons ban after the Buffalo shooting.

“In the Republican Party, this is an extraordinary moment. It’s a purge of anybody who runs against a certain orthodoxies.” , Haberman lamented. As to Jacobs’s New York district, she commented “There is a gun culture there, so it is not surprising that gun control has become a litmus test issue.”

 

At a later point in the interview, Stephanopoulos asked Christie to speak to what Haberman said, before adding his own leftist opinion that “it appears the Republican Party is hardening around this issue.”. Christie responded that “both sides have shown a hardening of their positions” and President Joe Biden’s “speech also reflected that". "Neither side is willing to compromise so there’s no compromise,” Christie added, pointing fingers both ways before Stephanopoulos jumped in to counter Christie’s argument.