Before he became Donald Trump’s sharpest critic, he was an important early booster. He’s not sorry for that.
. He was looking at a lame-duck end to his tenure in Trenton. He wanted to be vice president. He wanted to be attorney general. “He would not have done this unless he thinks that the only path forward for him is with Trump,” a high-ranking Republican told theChristie and Trump both ran for president in 2016. “If he had not been in the race,” Christie believed, “I would have been the nominee.
“Trump was what he needed, whether he wanted to admit it or not,” said veteran New York-based Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf. “Trump was his way back.” We rejoice in our sufferings knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and it is character that produces hopeIt wasn’t clear the assembled evangelicals immediately understood this for what it was — a rhetorical hook for Christie to return to so he could tell them the truth about Trump.
“Beware, everybody, of a leader who never makes mistakes,” he said. “Beware of a leader who has no faults. Beware of a leader who says that, when something goes wrong, it’s everybody else’s fault and he goes and he blames those people for anything that goes wrong, but when things go right, everything is to his credit.
“… after he made me chairman of his transition, after he made me chairman of his opioid and drug abuse commission, after — and this one will keep you up at night, everybody — after I played Hillary Clinton in debate prep” — that as always got some laughs — “and after I played Joe Biden in debate prep in 2020, why am I running for president of the United States? I’m running because he let us down.
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