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POLITICS 07/18/2018 01:49 pm ET Updated 14 minutes ago He will address being "unceremoniously booted" from Trump's transition team as well as the Bridgegate scandal. By Nina Golgowski Chris Christie still has a lot to tell and plans to tell it in a new book. The former New Jersey governor is writing a “no-holds-barred account” of his political life and controversies, including his time with President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, Hachette Books announced Wednesday. “Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics” is scheduled for release on Jan. 29, 2019. Christie, who was “unceremoniously booted” from the transition team shortly after Trump’s White House win, will offer “revealing, candid and surprising insights into the public and private Trump, drawn from fifteen years of close friendship,” Hachette said. It will also offer insight into those who have … [Read more...] about Chris Christie To Spill On Trump In New Book, ‘Let Me Finish’

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday became the latest ex-Trump official or surrogate to blast Bob Woodward's book, calling it "incorrect" and lacking "standard fact-checking." "To be clear, a number of the statements attributed to me and from others to me in the Woodward book are incorrect," Christie said on Twitter. "I would have been happy to correct them if Mr. Woodward or any member of his staff would have called me, as a person they were quoting, for standard fact-checking," he said. In Woodward's book — "Fear" — published Tuesday, The Washington Post reporter wrote that Trump accused Christie of "stealing from me" and feared that the transition team was "jinxing" his chances of winning the 2016 election. In one passage, Woodward said that then-candidate Trump called Christie to Trump Tower in New York along with campaign CEO Steve Bannon. Trump was incensed to learn that Christie, whom he made head of his transition team in May 2016, was raising money for … [Read more...] about Chris Christie Joins Chorus Slamming Woodward Book

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 14, 2018 / 10:11 PM GMT By Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON — Thrice rejected, President Donald Trump is still in search of a chief of staff. It won't be Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, who on Friday joined Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Nick Ayers, the top aide to Vice President Mike Pence, in taking himself out of the running. "I have told the president that now is not the right time for me or my family to undertake this serious assignment," Christie said in a statements. "As a result, I have asked him to no longer keep me in any of his considerations for this post." On Thursday night, Christie, who campaigned for Trump in 2016 and was later pushed out as chief of his presidential transition team, had spent an hour discussing the job with the president at the White House residence, according to two sources familiar … [Read more...] about With Chris Christie Out, Trump is still searching for a chief of staff

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Jan. 29, 2019, 2:13 PM GMT By Allan Smith Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had some simple advice for President Donald Trump about the ongoing Russia investigation: Keep quiet. Trump, however, has ignored him, Christie said Tuesday. Christie spoke with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" as he promotes his new book, "Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics." He was asked by co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough about his advice to Trump on how to handle special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials. Christie said he told Trump not to "be fooled" by what his "C-level legal team" was telling him about the investigation wrapping up promptly. Christie, a former … [Read more...] about Chris Christie explains his legal advice to Trump: Keep quiet

By Bill McColl Published February 11, 2019 White House FOXBusiness Facebook Twitter Comments Print video Trump has succeeded in spite of some of the people around him: Chris Christie FBN’s Gerry Baker interviews former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) about President Trump’s cabinet and policies. Any perceived rift between President Trump and Chris Christie just isn’t so. Continue Reading Below That’s according to the president’s former transition team chairman, who tells Gerry Baker on FOX Business' “WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker," Mr. Trump has asked if he wanted any of a variety of jobs in the administration. “The president has offered me Secretary of Labor, Director of Homeland Security, Special Assistant to the President, two ambassadorships,” he says.  “But those were not jobs that I wanted so I respectfully declined.” Christie, the Governor of New Jersey … [Read more...] about Christie to Trump: Thanks but no thanks