Insults fly in Christie’s new book about Trump

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump is surrounded by “amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons,” and also believes long ties are slimming, according to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s blistering new book.

In “Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of InYour-Face Politics,” the ousted member of Trump’s transition team lays into the president’s associates, writing that Trump had a “revolving door of deeply flawed individuals ... who were hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia,” according to excerpts published in Axios.

Remaining relatively unscathed in the latest White House kiss-and-tell is the president himself, according to the Guardian, which also obtained text in advance of the book’s Jan. 29 release.

Particularly, Christie targets Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, whom he accuses of carrying out a political “hit job” on the former New Jersey governor in retaliation for Christie’s prosecution of Kushner’s father, Charles, in 2005.

During his stint as U.S. attorney in New Jersey more than a decade ago, Christie charged the senior Kushner with crimes including tax evasion and campaign finance violations — an event far from water under the bridge to “the kid,” as Steve Bannon apparently refers to Kushner.

“This was a family matter, a matter to be handled by the family or by the rabbis,” Kushner told Trump, according to the excerpts.

Simmering for years, the vendetta over his father’s prosecution was behind the Trump adviser’s push for the president to sack Christie, thenWhite House chief strategist Steve Bannon apparently said.