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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 05:33 PM Jul 2017

Trump fired Christie because he arranged for Obama to call his phone NOT Trumps on election night.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4704854/Trump-fired-Chris-Christie-row-cellphone-germs.html

A new book reveals how Trump fell out with his then transition boss Chris Christie over whose cellphone to use on election night

Christie had arranged for Obama to call his number if Trump won - but germophobe Trump didn't want to use the New Jersey governor's cell

Jared Kushner removed Christie from his role running the Trump transition in the wake of the row

Devil's Bargain also reveals how Trump fell out with Paul Manafort, his now under investigation campaign chair, over a new story about Trump advisers

Trump accused Manafort of treating him 'like a baby' when it was claimed campaign officials did TV interviews to get their boss's attention

Book reveals Trump did not think of and was 'indifferent' to signature policy to build a wall until he unveiled it in Iowa in January 2015 and crowd 'went nuts'

Donald Trump fell out with Chris Christie, a new book reveals, by screaming at him: 'You know my number, just give it to the President, I don't want your f***ing phone'.
Trump became furious on election night when the New Jersey governor offered to use his own mobile phone to take a congratulatory call from Barack Obama.
As a germophobe he was also horrified at the idea of having Christie's phone next to his face.
According to a new book Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort was forced out under circumstances that were just as bruising.
The President shouted at him: 'Am I a f***ing baby, Paul?' over a news report which said Trump's advisers did TV interviews to get his attention because he watches so much cable.



read on .............why doe none of this sound at all surprising....nothing but a petulant manchild

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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
4. He stiffs contractors, steals from stores, stiffs employees, this guy is a piece of shit
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 06:09 PM
Jul 2017

and yet they all voted for him...........its just like the Devil walked in and waved a magic spell.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
14. Layers of management, I imagine
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 08:39 PM
Jul 2017

The ones that deal with him directly must make enough to make it worth while.

Mr.Bill

(24,262 posts)
5. A few things bother me about the germophobe story.
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 07:08 PM
Jul 2017

Germophobes don't usually do 30 second handshakes.

And I have been following the antics of Trump since the early 70s. The first time I ever heard it claimed that he was a germophobe was when it was used as a denial of the Russian prostitute piss story.

George II

(67,782 posts)
8. I've used this video a few times in the last month or two but it becomes more and more appropriate..
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 07:22 PM
Jul 2017

...by the day:

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
10. I read previously that Christie was fired because Kushner wanted him gone.
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 07:29 PM
Jul 2017

Kushner & Trump waited until after the election, and before transition, to get rid of him. Kushner wanted him gone because Christie is the prosecutor who prosecuted Kushner's father for fraud...and got a conviction. Kushner's father went to prison. So Kushner doesn't blame the corrupt Dad. He blamed the prosecutor, Christie. Now we know why. Because the son is as corrupt as the father. And THAT's one reason Trump likes Kushner so much. A corrupt billionaire businessman, just like Trump.

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