It looks like someone is not happy. The governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie seems to be not pleased by Donald Trump’s choice in a vice president. Christie reportedly feels that he was “stabbed in the back” by Trump when he was snubbed from the role of Vice President. For those who have not watched the news in the past four weeks, Donald Trump chose current Indiana governor Mike Pence.
Christie was far more angry than many people thought, as he had these words to say about Trump and Pence:
Christie tells MI GOP of Pence: "We don't need a nother big mouth from Congress…What Donald needed was a partner who governed."
— Dustin Racioppi (@dracioppi) July 18, 2016
Why Did He Endorse Trump In The First Place?
What is even more peculiar about this whole series of events is that Chris Christie heavily criticized Donald Trump before his endorsement of him. Christie had this to say on the Boston Herald Radio about Trump skipping some Fox News debate:
“I think it just makes people call into question his judgment. America wants a fighter who’s not going to walk away from a fight, but will walk into one.”
He also went on to say this about Trump in another interview about the incident:
“What’s that tell you about what we can expect if things go sideways when you go into the Oval Office? What are you going to do? Just go upstairs to the residence and say I’m not playing? You know, Vladimir Putin isn’t being nice to me, I’m not going to return his phone call? The press isn’t being nice to me, I’m not going to hold any more press conferences?”
This makes this entire situation even weirder. Governor Christie was heavily critical of Trump on numerous occasions before he endorsed him, which makes it odd that he would back him as the Presidential Nominee so suddenly.
I Guess It Didn’t Work Out For Christie
I can’t say I am surprised Chris Christie was not chosen to be Trump’s running mate. He was so anti-Trump at the beginning that it put him in a bad light. Maybe that is what he gets for being so power hungry that he forgot what he stood for.
Here is one of many examples of Trump owning Governor Christie:
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