Chris Christie says President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, naively thought that the Russia investigation would disappear by firing National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, according to an excerpt from the ex-Governor’s upcoming book.
Christie recounts details of his contacts with Trump in his new book, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In Your Face Politics.
The book paints an image of Trump and Kushner as being ill-prepared for the burdens of a presidential campaign and of running the country, according to an excerpt obtained by The New York Times.
Chris Christie says President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, naively thought that the Russia investigation would disappear by firing National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
Christie writes in his book that despite Trump’s political skills which enabled him to win the Presidency, he made mistakes in taking advice from novices like Kushner.
In the book, Christie takes Kushner to task for giving his father-in-law questionable advice, including the miscalculation of Democrats’ reaction to the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Kushner believed that firing Comey would please Democrats, who were angry with the ex-FBI Director for his conduct during the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
The Comey firing unleashed a hailstorm of criticism and moved the Justice Department to name a Special Counsel to investigate alleged Russian meddling.
Early in the administration, Christie recalls chatting with Trump and Kushner shortly after Flynn was dismissed for lying to Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the transition.
‘This Russia thing is all over now, because I fired Flynn,’ Trump told Christie at the White House on February 14, 2017.
Christie writes in his book that he started laughing.
Christie's new book paints an image of Trump (seen above at the White House on Friday) and Kushner as being ill-prepared for the burdens of a presidential campaign and of running the country
Trump then asked Christie why he was laughing.
‘Sir, this Russia thing is far from over,’ Christie told Trump.
Trump responded: ‘What do you mean? Flynn met with the Russians. That was the problem. I fired Flynn. It’s over.’
Kushner, who was sitting nearby eating a salad, said: ‘That’s right, firing Flynn ends the whole Russia thing.’
Christie wrote that Trump and Kushner were ‘naive’.
When Christie told Kushner that the Russia investigation was still going to be a topic of discussion in a year from that day, Kushner told the former Governor he was ‘crazy.’
Christie turned out to be right. The Russia investigation has been ongoing for more than two years.
After Comey’s firing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate whether Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.
‘This Russia thing is all over now, because I fired Flynn,’ Trump told Christie at the White House on February 14, 2017. Christie writes in his book that he started laughing, then added: ‘Sir, this Russia thing is far from over'. Flynn is seen above in Washington, DC in July 2018
Trump, his associates, and the Russian government have all denied colluding to help the Republican defeat Hillary Clinton, the Democrat.
Since the investigation began, a number of Trump associates have been indicted, among them former campaign chairman Paul Manafort; Flynn; longtime Trump associate Roger Stone; and others.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his December 2016 conversations with Sergei Kislyak, then Russia’s ambassador in Washington, about U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow by the administration of Trump’s Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.
The conversations took place between Trump’s November election victory and his inauguration in January 2017.
Mueller, leading the investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia ahead of the election, had asked the judge not to sentence Flynn to prison because he had already provided ‘substantial’ cooperation over the course of many interviews.
Lying to the FBI carries a statutory maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Flynn’s plea agreement stated that he was eligible for a sentence of between zero and six months.
Christie writes in his book that he believed Trump did not surround himself with able people, including Flynn.
‘Flynn was a train wreck from beginning to end,’ the former Governor writes.
Christie also thought Trump erred when he named Jeff Sessions his Attorney General and Steve Bannon as a senior adviser.
Christie accused Bannon of manufacturing conversations that he claimed took place between them in order to sell books and make media appearances.
There is also fierce criticism of Kushner, whom Christie accuses of working to deny him a position in the administration.
Christie says he was in the running to be Trump's Vice President or White House Chief of Staff.
In both instances, according to Christie, Kushner leaned on Trump to pick someone else.
Christie contends the president's son-in-law was acting out of revenge for Christie's prosecution of Jared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, in 2004 when he was U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
Christie claims his knowledge comes straight from Steve Bannon, Trump's former campaign chief and White House counselor.
When Bannon fired Christie from Trump's transition team at a meeting at Trump Tower in New York, Christie forced him to tell him who was really behind the move by threatening to go the media and blame Bannon instead, Christie reveals in his upcoming book, a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian.
President Trump repeatedly offered Chris Christie the Vice Presidency during the campaign, but it was his daughter and son-in-law who effectively vetoed the move, according to the ex-Governor. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are seen at the White House last May
'Steve Bannon … made clear to me that one person and one person only was responsible for the faceless execution that Steve was now attempting to carry out. Jared Kushner, still apparently seething over events that had occurred a decade ago,' Christie writes.
'The kid's been taking an ax to your head with the boss ever since I got here,' Christie quotes Bannon as telling him about Kushner.
Christie's prosecution of billionaire real estate developer Charles Kushner helped put him on the map.
The elder Kushner plead guilty to 16 counts of tax evasion, one count of retaliating against a federal witness, and another count of lying to the Federal Election Commission.
Charles Kushner's retaliation conviction had to do with a revenge plot against his brother-in-law William Schulder, a former employee turned witness for federal prosecutors.
Charles Kushner hired a prostitute to lure Schulder into having sex in a Bridgewater, New Jersey, motel room as a hidden camera taped the encounter. That tape was then sent to Schulder's wife, who was Charles' sister Esther.
The Schulders, in turn, brought the tape to prosecutors, who tracked down the prostitute and threatened her with arrest. She turned on Kushner and revealed the plot.
Christie subsequently negotiated a plea deal with Charles Kushner.
The tawdry case not only put the elder Kushner in jail for two years, it caused great embarrassment to the Kushner family.
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