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Chris Christie Ain’t No Trump.

Mike Weisser
4 min readJun 13, 2023

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Last night I tuned into CNN’s second Town Hall event, this time featuring Chris Christie, who is operating under some delusional fantasy that he has a chance of becoming the next President in 2024.

Christie, you may recall, was a staunch Trump ally throughout the entire 2016 campaign. He was awarded for his efforts by being named the head of the Trump transition team but was bumped off the team after getting into a pissing match with Jared Kushner (remember him?)

From that time onward, Christie remained a Trump supporter until the stench became a little too strong, particularly over the issue of election ‘fraud.’ When Christie began promoting his own Presidential bid, he referred to Trump as a ‘self-serving mirror hog,’ and promised that he would pull the GOP out of MAGA-land.

All fine and well, except that last night in front of an audience which appeared to be mostly college kids connected to GOP student groups at various New Jersey college campuses, Christie seemed to go out of his way both to sound like Trump in his comments about Joe Biden, as well as to run away from any issue on which he had ever said anything that made him sound out of step with the MAGA brand.

As to the former, Christie said right at the beginning of the event that he was running to prevent Biden from ‘destroying’ the United States. What…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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