New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie says in a new interview that he suspected senior White House adviser Jared Kushner was behind his ouster from President Trump’s transition team.
In a wide-ranging Politico interview posted Thursday, Christie details a conversation with now-ousted White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who was the one who told Christie he was being fired from the transition team. In it, he says he asked Bannon directly whether Kushner was behind it.
“Oh, I asked,” Christie said. “He didn’t answer. But [based on] subsequent conversations I’ve had with the president, I just don’t believe this was the president’s decision.”
He added that the president offered him a number of positions in the Trump administration, but that he turned the president down due to lack of interest.
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