Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics by Chris ChristieMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I don’t know Christie well or his political career. Still, what little I have gathered from CNN, etc. forms him in my mind as someone a bit earnest and maybe trying a bit too hard; perhaps gullible in the belief others value him as much as he feels he is worth. This political memoir around his relationship with Trump etches deeper that image. Christie also multiple times disputes characterizations of him in Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House as falsities from the mouth of Steve Bannon. Basically, Christie wants to know he was a Trump insider, he believed in Trump and provided quality advice, and if Jared Kushner had not poisoned the well over the Charles Kushner issue, Trump would have been better served and Christie would still be in the Trump camp, either as VP or attorney general. Despite the fact that Christie really is not trying to spill dirt on Trump while this is not hagiography, a few breathless revelations slip out. For instance, Trump saw federal law requirements as no obstacle to directing Christie to just ignore forming a transition plan. Christie just didn’t follow that order, like others have ignored Trump as we learned in Fear that "Cohn Lifted Papers Off Trump’s Desk to Stop Nafta Exit".
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