On Monday, president-elect Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal, "at some point, we're going to do something with Chris," and now, after months of court cases and controversy (over Bridgegate), New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has broken his silence saying that he turned down several jobs in the Trump administration because his wife refused to move to Washington.
Speaking on New York radio station WFAN's "Boomer and Carton" program, AP reports that Christie said that influenced his decision on accepting any of the positions offered by Republican President-elect Donald Trump.
"He didn't offer me a job that I thought was exciting enough for me to leave the governorship and my family," Christie said.
"Because Mary Pat made really clear she wasn't coming to D.C."
The Republican governor said he would have made at least a two-year commitment to be there. Two of the couple's four children live at home and are in high school. Christie is in the final full year of his second and last term as governor.
Notably, Federal prosecutors said today that the corruption convictions of two former aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal should stand.
They wrote in a filing late Tuesday in response to motions by Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni that the evidence was overwhelming.
Christie wasn’t charged. Kelly and Baroni are scheduled to be sentenced next month.
Finally, Christie did nothing to befriend the people of Philadelphia…
“I understand why people are interested if you are a public figure, as to who you root for,” Christie said.
“They’re interested. But the hostility, I will tell you that I take for being a Cowboys fan — and this is what I say to Giants fans all the time, and Eagles fans. Now Eagles fans I can understand it from a little more because the Eagles do suck and they’ve sucked for a long time. And their fans are generally angry, awful people.”
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