Eric Trump Told Chris Christie He Had Evidence of Voter Fraud: Book

• Eric Trump told Chris Christie to watch for evidence of widespread fraud on election night.
• Christie recalls his horror at Trump’s claims of fraud and declaration of victory in his new book. 
• “You know I’m a straight shooter,” Eric texted Christie. “Just wait until you see what is popping up.”

Eric Trump, former President Donald Trump’s eldest son, texted Chris Christie on election night claiming evidence of mass voter fraud was “popping up,” Christie writes in his memoir. 

Christie, who advised the Trump 2020 campaign on debate prep, recalled the exchange and his experience on election night in his new book “Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden,” which was published on Tuesday.

Christie wrote that Trump’s election night speech in which he prematurely declared victory while ballots were still being counted and said he would be “going to the Supreme Court” to secure himself the election was “one of the most dangerous pieces of political rhetoric I have ever heard in my life” and made him “physically sick to my stomach.”

“Presidents just don’t talk like that, certainly without presenting solid evidence. The damage done by that speech still reverberates across the country today,” Christie wrote. 

The former New Jersey governor and ABC News contributor was a member of the network’s election night coverage panel moderated by George Stephanopoulos, and publicly chastised Trump for his speech on television.

Christie said there was “no basis” for his claims of widespread fraud and called Trump’s presumptuous declaration of victory a “bad strategic decision” and “a bad political decision,” adding, “and it’s not the kind of decision you’d expect someone to make tonight who holds the position he does.”