Chris Christie is jealous of Trump and disappointed that Pence was picked instead of him for VP.
He is making the TV interview rounds promoting his new book, "Let Me Finish". !
He knocked Jared Kushner's dad in an interview on CNN for a crime committed in 2003.
Jared's father is not connected to or working for Trump.
Like most political tell-alls, "Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics,'' is a self-serving, one-sided account that omits inconvenient facts and context.
Here are key details from the high points that help round out what Christie, New Jersey's former governor and onetime Republican presidential hopeful, left out.
Bridgegate revisionism
Not surprisingly, Christie reasserts his claim of being "exonerated" by three investigations into the George Washington Bridge lane closings, a bizarre political retribution plot that targeted the Fort Lee mayor for refusing to back Christie's reelection. The closings of Fort Lee's local access to the bridge led to massive traffic jams over five days in September 2013.
While it is true that probes yielded no proof of Christie's involvement, they also did not clear him. And they did not dispel the cloud of doubt that hangs over Christie's legacy.
The first report, conducted by New York lawyer Randy Mastro and commissioned by the Christie administration, did clear Christie in March 2014 of any involvement or prior knowledge in the scheme before it was hatched. It did so without interviewing three principal figures who might have had intimate knowledge of the scheme. Critics called the report an expensive "whitewash."
A bipartisan legislative investigative panel concluded after nine months without producing a smoking gun linking Christie. But it also noted that there was no "conclusive evidence" that Christie "was not aware" of the lane closures.
The panel also did not interview two officials, Christie's former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, who successfully rebuffed the panel's subpoena, and David Wildstein, the self-professed mastermind of the closing and a top Christie appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during the investigations.
The federal investigation and 2016 trial of Kelly and Bill Baroni, the former deputy executive director at the Port Authority and Wildstein's supervisor, also did not yield any evidence of Christie's involvement. But Baroni and Wildstein (who served as the government's chief witness) testified that Christie was made aware of the chaos in Fort Lee as the lane closings were taking place, and Kelly testified that he was alerted a month before they happened.
Christie has repeatedly insisted over the past two years that his relationship with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, was amicable and friction-free, despite Christie's tangled history with the Kushner family.
Yet, as his book illustrates, Christie's claims of harmony proved to be nothing but spin. In the book, Christie portrays Jared as his revenge-fueled foe who sabotaged him at every turn. Jared, writes Christie, carried out a "hit job" on him.
According to the book, Kushner openly opposed Christie's appointment as Trump's transition chief during a meeting with Trump, Christie and then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in May 2016. At that meeting in Trump Tower, Kushner aired out the long-smoldering grievances he and his father, Charles, held against Christie.
The hatred dates back 2005, when Christie, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, prosecuted the elder Kushner, a prominent New Jersey developer, on charges of tax evasion, campaign finance violations and trying to silence witnesses — his brother and sister — in a federal probe of his company's finances.
Christie has tried for years to dispel the notion that he hugged President Barack Obama when the president arrived in New Jersey to tour the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy in late October 2012.
Actually, photos of their tarmac meeting show a concerned, grim Obama shaking Christie's right hand as his left hand rests on Christie's shoulder in a gesture of reassurance.
"I'm half Sicilian," Christie writes. "I know hugs. That was no hug."
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/column...699679002/
Remember Christie shut down the state's parks, rec areas and Island Beach State Park and Liberty State Park — over a state budget battle.
He then took his family to the closed beach!
http://www.shredoftruth.com/home/chris-christ...beach.html
He is making the TV interview rounds promoting his new book, "Let Me Finish". !
He knocked Jared Kushner's dad in an interview on CNN for a crime committed in 2003.
Jared's father is not connected to or working for Trump.
Like most political tell-alls, "Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics,'' is a self-serving, one-sided account that omits inconvenient facts and context.
Here are key details from the high points that help round out what Christie, New Jersey's former governor and onetime Republican presidential hopeful, left out.
Bridgegate revisionism
Not surprisingly, Christie reasserts his claim of being "exonerated" by three investigations into the George Washington Bridge lane closings, a bizarre political retribution plot that targeted the Fort Lee mayor for refusing to back Christie's reelection. The closings of Fort Lee's local access to the bridge led to massive traffic jams over five days in September 2013.
While it is true that probes yielded no proof of Christie's involvement, they also did not clear him. And they did not dispel the cloud of doubt that hangs over Christie's legacy.
The first report, conducted by New York lawyer Randy Mastro and commissioned by the Christie administration, did clear Christie in March 2014 of any involvement or prior knowledge in the scheme before it was hatched. It did so without interviewing three principal figures who might have had intimate knowledge of the scheme. Critics called the report an expensive "whitewash."
A bipartisan legislative investigative panel concluded after nine months without producing a smoking gun linking Christie. But it also noted that there was no "conclusive evidence" that Christie "was not aware" of the lane closures.
The panel also did not interview two officials, Christie's former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, who successfully rebuffed the panel's subpoena, and David Wildstein, the self-professed mastermind of the closing and a top Christie appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during the investigations.
The federal investigation and 2016 trial of Kelly and Bill Baroni, the former deputy executive director at the Port Authority and Wildstein's supervisor, also did not yield any evidence of Christie's involvement. But Baroni and Wildstein (who served as the government's chief witness) testified that Christie was made aware of the chaos in Fort Lee as the lane closings were taking place, and Kelly testified that he was alerted a month before they happened.
Christie has repeatedly insisted over the past two years that his relationship with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, was amicable and friction-free, despite Christie's tangled history with the Kushner family.
Yet, as his book illustrates, Christie's claims of harmony proved to be nothing but spin. In the book, Christie portrays Jared as his revenge-fueled foe who sabotaged him at every turn. Jared, writes Christie, carried out a "hit job" on him.
According to the book, Kushner openly opposed Christie's appointment as Trump's transition chief during a meeting with Trump, Christie and then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in May 2016. At that meeting in Trump Tower, Kushner aired out the long-smoldering grievances he and his father, Charles, held against Christie.
The hatred dates back 2005, when Christie, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, prosecuted the elder Kushner, a prominent New Jersey developer, on charges of tax evasion, campaign finance violations and trying to silence witnesses — his brother and sister — in a federal probe of his company's finances.
Christie has tried for years to dispel the notion that he hugged President Barack Obama when the president arrived in New Jersey to tour the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy in late October 2012.
Actually, photos of their tarmac meeting show a concerned, grim Obama shaking Christie's right hand as his left hand rests on Christie's shoulder in a gesture of reassurance.
"I'm half Sicilian," Christie writes. "I know hugs. That was no hug."
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/column...699679002/
Remember Christie shut down the state's parks, rec areas and Island Beach State Park and Liberty State Park — over a state budget battle.
He then took his family to the closed beach!
http://www.shredoftruth.com/home/chris-christ...beach.html
