Christie On Trump's Staff: 'Weaklings, Convicted And Unconvicted Felons'
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 20: Chris Christie speaks onstage during Politicon 2018 at Los Angeles Convention Center on October 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Politicon)
By Kate Riga
Former New Jersey governor and U.S. attorney Chris Christie is pulling no punches in his new book, "Let Me Finish," unloading on President Donald Trump's staff in an excerpt obtained by Axios.
The President has a "revolving door of deeply flawed individuals—amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons—who were hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia," he wrote.
Christie has reserved special ire for Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who he believes carried out a political "hit job" on him and stunted his political ambitions due to an old grudge: Christie once sent Kushner's father to prison.
Kate Riga (@Kate_Riga24) is a senior newswriter for TPM and a contributor to the Josh Marshall Podcast, based in New York City. A Philadelphia native, Kate graduated from Georgetown University and previously worked as a political reporter at the Southampton Press in New York.