Christie says Trump hired ‘riffraff’ in new book
Chris Christie, the former Republican New Jersey governor who served on President Trump’s transition team, says in his new book that the Trump administration hired “riffraff” instead of experienced strategists.
“Donald so urgently needed the right people around him and a solid structure in place,” Christie wrote in “Let Me Finish,” according to an excerpt obtained by Axios.
{mosads}”Far too often, he’s found himself saddled with the riffraff.”
Christie criticized several of Trump’s ex-secretaries and advisers, including “future federal felon” Michael Flynn, who was the president’s first national security adviser, and “greedy and inexperienced” Scott Pruitt, who was the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump has “too few” Kellyanne Conways and Steven Mnuchin’s and a “boatload of Sebastian Gorkas,” Christie wrote.
Christie was fired after Election Day as chief of Trump’s transition team.
Christie in previously published excerpts of his memoir slammed associates of Trump as “amateurs,” “weaklings” and “unconvicted felons.”
He also reportedly claims that White House senior adviser Jared Kushner enacted a “hit job” against him as revenge for prosecuting Kushner’s father years ago.
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