Chris Christie blasts Trump's repeated 'irresponsible conduct' after he shared Obama's purported address on social media

• Chris Christie slammed Trump for posting the Obamas' purported DC address.
• According to prosecutors, an armed January 6 defendant reposted the address and then went to the neighborhood.
• "It is irresponsible conduct," Christie said.

GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie slammed former President Donald Trump for sharing the Obamas' purported DC address on social media, a post that prosecutors alleged was followed up by a deranged and armed January 6 defendant staking out their house.

"This is the problem with someone who doesn't think about this country and its citizens first," Christie, the former New Jersey governor, told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday evening. "They wind up doing things like this, whether it was intentional or inadvertent, what it shows is a lack of responsibility, a lack of accountability for what you're saying."

Christie, who has viciously criticized the former president since breaking with him, said Trump needs to answer for this "irresponsible conduct."

"It's like calling the special counsel a 'crackhead,' it's like putting out a former president's address," Christie said. "It is irresponsible conduct." 

The former New Jersey governor was referencing yet another Truth Social post that the former president posted in regard to special counsel Jack Smith. In this post, Trump said Smith "looks like a crackhead to me" while joking if he had been seen in the area where cocaine was found in the White House.

Federal prosecutors allege that Taylor Taranto reposted Trump's Truth social post, which was a series of screenshots of a 2017 newsletter about Trump's 100 days in office. The newsletter mentioned the Obamas' purported DC address as an example of the "shadow" government that was trying to thwart Trump.

Prosecutors allege that Taranto posted "Got them surrounded" and then live streamed from the Obamas' neighborhood as he looked for "access points" to get his "shot." Taranto was later arrested after a brief foot chase. He was found to have had two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van.

Prosecutors further allege that the trip to case the Obamas' neighborhood was the end of a period of increasingly erratic behavior for Taranto, who had moved to DC to follow up on Speaker Kevin McCarthy's vow to make January 6 footage more accessible to those accused of participating in the Capitol riot.