All posts tagged "Chris Christie"

A former insider described a memory of Melania Trump bursting into laughter when Trump promised to keep a secret.

During an interview on This is Gavin Newsom, ex-Trump ally and former GOP governor Chris Christie recalled a dinner with Trump and Melania long before they were in the White House.

The dinner took place before Christie stepped down as a U.S. attorney in 2008 and after Ivanka Trump met her future husband, Jared Kushner, in 2007. Christie had prosecuted Kushner's father, whom Christie remembered as "the most disgusting defendant" he prosecuted....

A former GOP governor was brutally snubbed by a Rock n' Roll legend who refused to high-five him in front of a packed Thursday night crowd.

Bruce Springsteen was sharing the love with his fans as he walked through the audience of one of his concerts. When "The Boss" came to Chris Christie, the one-time Republican governor of Springsteen's home state of New Jersey, he chose to take a hard left and leave the former presidential hopeful hanging.

"HAHAHA Bruce Springsteen WAS NOT HAVING IT with Chris Christie. THE SNUB!" wrote journalist Matt Ryan, who posted a video of the embarrassing moment on X....

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus yelled at each other over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s qualifications to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

"You looked at that appearance before Congress, and it just confirms what all of us around this table have known for decades," Christie said during a Sunday morning roundtable on ABC. "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a foolish man full of foolish and vapid ideas."

"RFK Jr. doesn't belong in that job," he continued. "But after [Donald Trump] won, he wanted to show everybody, I can do whatever I want to do because this Senate will be compliant no matter what I do. And I'll put the greatest vaccine and public health denier of the last 20 years in charge of public health in America. It's a human middle finger to everybody who opposed him."...

Former President Donald Trump appeared to rib his former New Jersey primary opponent during a rally Tuesday at Doral golf club in South Florida.

Trump started to share a story in which he said a waitress walked up to him — "a beautiful waitress" he noted, adding he "never like(s) talking about physical [appearance].

That's where the story diverted to, in his words, how people can "never talk about a person's look. Ever." ...

Chris Christie won't roll up the sleeves to take on Donald Trump as a third party candidate.

The Washington Post reported the former New Jersey governor scratched his name off of the list of potentials that No Labels hopes to formalize ahead of the November 5 election to rival President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

“I appreciate the encouragement I’ve gotten to pursue a third-party candidacy,” Christie informed The Post on Wednesday. “While I believe this is a conversation that needs to be had with the American people, I also believe that if there is not a pathway to win and if my candidacy in any way, shape or form would help Donald Trump become president again, then it is not the way forward.”...

The notion was once unthinkable.

More recently, purely theoretical.

Now, there’s a legitimate chance Donald Trump could be running for president, or even serving as commander in chief, from behind bars....