His departure could make room for Nikki Haley to grow her support in New Hampshire, where Christie had grabbed a slice of anti-Trump Republican voters.
I think it would be better if Trump dangled the VP slot in front of Christie who begged like a dog for a piece of juicy steak but then Trump gave the slot to somebody else.
Nah, make him do something disgusting, like wrestling with DeSantis for it in a kiddie pool full of gravy at a rubber chicken fundraiser. He can sell tickets at Mar-A-Lago.
For anybody that doesn’t know - there’s great bad blood between Chris Christie on one side and Jared Kushner and his dad on the other. I didn’t quote the intro where Christie shits on Kushner. Instead I jumped to the timeline. A timeline is great for politics I wish sites like the NYT and the WaPo had them too.
[Christie’s] beef with the Kushner family goes back much further than this campaign cycle.
2004
Christie, then serving as US attorney in New Jersey, investigated and successfully prosecuted Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, who pleaded guilty to “16 counts of assisting in the filing of false tax returns, one count of retaliating against a cooperating witness and one count of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission,” per the DOJ. Charles Kushner spent 14 months in prison.
2016
Christie, then governor of New Jersey, dropped out of the GOP presidential primary in February after coming in sixth in the New Hampshire primary (despite savaging Sen. Marco Rubio in a debate). Two weeks later, in a shock endorsement ahead of Super Tuesday, Christie backed Trump, who had very few mainstream politicians backing him and zero governors.
However, that pivotal endorsement did not get Christie a role on Trump’s team when he won the presidency. In November 2016, he was out as the head of Trump’s transition team and replaced by then-Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Jared Kushner went on to work for four years at the White House as a senior adviser to his father-in-law.
2019
Christie claimed in his 2019 memoir “Let Me Finish” that more than ten years later, his successful prosecution of Charles Kushner led to Jared ousting him from the top spot of Trump’s 2016 transition team. When asked about the beef between Christie and the younger Kushner in 2019 by PBS’s Margaret Hoover, Christie responded: “Mr. Kushner pled guilty, he admitted the crimes. So what am I supposed to do as a prosecutor?”
“If a guy hires a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and videotapes it and then sends the videotape to his sister in an attempt to intimidate her from testifying before a grand jury, do I really need any more justification than that?” Christie continued, referring to Charles Kushner’s plot: “I mean, it’s one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney, and I was a US attorney in New Jersey, Margaret — so we had some loathsome and disgusting crime going on there!”
2020
During Trump’s 2020 campaign, Christie again emerged and helped Trump, working to prepare him to debate Biden in late September 2020. A defeated Trump pardoned Charles Kushner two months later, on December 23, 2020.
2023
In the intervening years, Christie has changed his tune and stepped into a role as an outspoken critic of Trump. An attorney for Ivanka Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A representative for Jared Kushner could not immediately be reached.
Christie for VP. Come on Trump, do something funny.
I think it would be better if Trump dangled the VP slot in front of Christie who begged like a dog for a piece of juicy steak but then Trump gave the slot to somebody else.
Nah, make him do something disgusting, like wrestling with DeSantis for it in a kiddie pool full of gravy at a rubber chicken fundraiser. He can sell tickets at Mar-A-Lago.
You have much bigger dreams than me.
It’s the best form of entertainment.
Wasn’t that what happened in 2016?
Time is a flat… you know the thing.
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For anybody that doesn’t know - there’s great bad blood between Chris Christie on one side and Jared Kushner and his dad on the other. I didn’t quote the intro where Christie shits on Kushner. Instead I jumped to the timeline. A timeline is great for politics I wish sites like the NYT and the WaPo had them too.