Chris Christie Takes Himself Out of Running for WH Chief of Staff

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC4 Washington

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he does not want to be White House chief of staff, just hours after multiple reports said he was President Trump's leading choice for the job.

"It's an honor to have the President consider me as he looks to choose a new White House chief-of-staff," Christie said in a statement to The New York Times. "However, I've told the President that now is not the right time for me or my family to undertake this serious assignment.
As a result, I have asked him to no longer keep me in any of his considerations for this post."

Christie met with Trump Thursday night about the White House chief of staff job and was considered a "top contender" for the role, sources told NBC News earlier Friday.

Christie's candidacy was being boosted both publicly and privately by South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a source told NBC.

Read more: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/Former-NJ-Gov-Chris-Christie-a-Top-Contender-for-White-House-Chief-of-Staff-Report-502765761.html

[thegoose]

1. Ha ha ha ha!

At this point, Eric (the Dim One) would probably turn him down. What a dumpster fire!

[TheBlackAdder]

28. Gotta correct the lede: "Chris Chrstie takes himself out of the walking. . . "

[Maeve]

2. Not as dumb as he looks!

Low bar, I know...

[Perseus]

11. Chrstie is not dumb, he is just greedy and corrupt

but not dumb...and even so, he know when to put a hold on his ambitions.

[olegramps]

29. He would have been a perfect addition to the White House trash brigade of liars and cheats.

[titaniumsalute]

3. doomp doomp doomp...another one bites the dust...doomp doomp doomp

[George II]

4. They're all withdrawing because of their "family". Are they afraid they'll be separated from them...

....for several years and Federal prisons don't have liberal visitation policies?

[Dave Starsky]

12. They're afraid their kids will be ridiculed mercilessly.

And deservedly so.

[LuckyLib]

17. There hasn't been so much "family" concern in DC in decades. Picturing all these fools sitting

around the house playing board games with their kids.

[cstanleytech]

21. Some of its that but the majority of it is they know that when the Repugnants Trump house of cards

falls down that any Repugnant in office and in the administration will be tarnished and that most of them will end up on the side of the road out of a job.
The ones like Flake are betting that they can then swoop in as the Repugnant parties saviors down the road and be on top in the party after the prison sentences have all been handed out and the dust has settled.

[onetexan]

5. as slimy as Christie is, he's smart enough to recognize a sinking ship when he sees one

[empedocles]

14. Yep. Just going through the motions for some not obvious reason.

[patricia92243]

6. things must be pretty bad for Christie to turn down a job at the WH with the buffoon.

[Perseus]

7. If Christie said no, the orange guy is in real trouble

Christie played water boy for trump during the campaign, took all the insults the orange guy threw at him, and now he says "NO, F-YOU!"

That is grand!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Hello. This is Ted with the Trump Administration. Would you be interested in the....

BigCrimeHat Retweeted

Hello. This is Ted with the Trump Administration. Would you be interested in the Chief of Staff position?

Oh, well, do you know anyone who might be interested?

Hello?

Link to tweet

[moonscape]

26. If yes press 1, if no ...

don't hang up, we still want to talk to you!

[padah513]

9. Ha!

Even that rat knows what a sinking ship looks like.

[Hassler]

10. Krispy Kreme is crooked, but not stupid.

[SunSeeker]

13. Wow.

[Cousin Dupree]

15. Major schadenfreude here

[Doreen]

16. Even the biggest rat ( pun intended and not intended ) is

abandoning the sinking ship or not getting back on. After Bridge gate he would be wise to lay low.

[MyOwnPeace]

18. No stage.......

could hold them both - either bodies or egos!

[thesquanderer]

19. I bet Christie enjoyed saying no to Trump...

...after the kind of stuff here:

http://www.collegehumor.com/post/7043400/6-times-trump-treated-chris-christie-like-trash

Maybe he's got some self-esteem left after all.

[displacedtexan]

20. So did Trump forget that he had Brannon fire Christie from the transition chairmanship?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team

In transition ... Donald Trump and Chris Christie on 20 November 2016

The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this?

Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my fucking money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain to Trump federal law. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump replied: Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldn’t have both his money and a transition.

Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition
The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this?

Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my fucking money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain to Trump federal law. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump replied: Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldn’t have both his money and a transition.

Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition.

There's so much more at the link.

[Chemisse]

33. Interesting! n/t

[NewJeffCT]

23. BREAKING - Scott Baio turns down Chief of Staff job

says he's in line to be Assistant Manager at the Vineland Chick-Fil-A in NJ and didn't want to lose that chance.

[marble falls]

24. Big Chris wanted the offer just long enough to jam it up cheetolini's fungu eeey, fuhgetaboutit.

[gibraltar72]

25. To be clear Christie did not take himself out of the running.

Slow waddle maybe but not running.

[keithbvadu2]

27. I wanted to see Christie and Jared 'working' together... guns blazing.

I wanted to see Christie and Jared 'working' together... guns blazing.

[llmart]

30. Next Up!!

Ted Nugent

[Doitnow]

31. What nerve! tRump bashes everyone in sight and then expects them all to come running to

his aid in his time of peril. How stupid can he be? It's beyond belief! He must have been some kind of monster growing up.

[obamanut2012]

32. Always trust the Mob guy if he says the heat is too hot

If Christie isn't taking CoS, you know Trump is fucked.