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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 10:44 AM Jan 2019

Exclusive excerpt: Chris Christie says Trump hired "riffraff"


Mike Allen 1 hour ago

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, writes in his forthcoming memoir — "Let Me Finish," out Jan. 29 — that President Trump filled his administration with "riffraff" instead of canny players who could help him overcome his impulses and shaky grasp of how government works.

Donald so urgently needed the right people around him and a solid structure in place. ... Far too often, he’s found himself saddled with the riffraff. ...

Instead of high-quality, vetted appointees for key administration posts, he got the Russian lackey and future federal felon Michael Flynn as national security adviser. He got the greedy and inexperienced Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

He got the high-flying Tom Price as health and human services secretary. He got the not-ready-for-prime-time Jeff Sessions as attorney general, promptly recusing himself from the Justice Department’s Russian-collusion probe. He got a stranger named Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. ...

He got the Apprentice show loser Omarosa Manigault in whatever Omarosa’s job purported to be. (I never could figure that one out.) ... Too few Kellyanne Conways. A boatload of Sebastian Gorkas. Too few Steven Mnuchins.


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Exclusive excerpt: Chris Christie says Trump hired "riffraff" (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
. jberryhill Jan 2019 #1
Well then that riffraf includes his dumb ass too. nt UniteFightBack Jan 2019 #2
"Too few Steven Mnuchins." lol OnDoutside Jan 2019 #3
IKR? shanny Jan 2019 #7
Krispie probably loves Mnuchins Wall Street connections. OnDoutside Jan 2019 #12
ah, good point shanny Jan 2019 #13
Says the guy who couldn't get a job with them. EffieBlack Jan 2019 #4
He was supposedly dying to be Attorney General NewJeffCT Jan 2019 #5
Chris Christie is a self serviung S.O.B. who should have been jailed for Bridgegate Tom Rinaldo Jan 2019 #6
Classic pot/kettle. Golden Raisin Jan 2019 #8
Why do we need this sniveling pissant POS asspickle maxrandb Jan 2019 #9
tRUMP is riffraff. And that's the nicest thing to be said of him. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2019 #10
"...found himself saddled with..." ? BULLSHIT!!! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2019 #11
 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
7. IKR?
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 11:06 AM
Jan 2019

if he's "qualified" that's a pathetic standard

also too: rump didn't hire Chris Christie...

 

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
4. Says the guy who couldn't get a job with them.
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 11:01 AM
Jan 2019

If they're riffraff (which they definitely are), what does that say about him?

Tom Rinaldo

(22,911 posts)
6. Chris Christie is a self serviung S.O.B. who should have been jailed for Bridgegate
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 11:05 AM
Jan 2019

And his grudges with the Trump team are readily apparent. He got fired (likely by Kushner) from heading up the transition He wanted to be AG himself so he calls Sessions "not ready for prime time" etc.

But of course he is correct about the type of people Trump picked even if he is wrong about someone like Munchin being a "good" exception. And there is no logical reason on earth why he can let Trump off the hook and not blast him as being the worst of the lot for not even being able to differentiate between good appointments and horrific ones, no matter what standard Christie uses.

maxrandb

(15,192 posts)
9. Why do we need this sniveling pissant POS asspickle
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 11:18 AM
Jan 2019

Telling us what we already know?

He can go fuck himself sideways with a hard cover first edition copy of Atlas Shrugged... the worthless piece of amphibian shit.

50 Shades Of Blue

(9,777 posts)
11. "...found himself saddled with..." ? BULLSHIT!!!
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 12:05 PM
Jan 2019

Like calls to like! These are Trump's own people. They're all birds of the same venal, criminal, repellant feather!

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