Sobre El Autor
Chris Christie is an American politician, former United States Attorney, and political commentator. He served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.
Obras de Chris Christie
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962-09-06
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Livingston, New Jersey, USA
- Educación
- Seton Hall University (JD|1987)
University of Delaware (BA|Political Science|1984) - Ocupaciones
- attorney
politician - Organizaciones
- U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey
State of New Jersey - Agente
- Jordan Bazant (WME)
Kate Urqhat (WME)
Mel Berger (WME)
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 107
- Popularidad
- #180,615
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 19
After Christie was fired from heading the Transition Team, all of the work the team did to identify quality individuals for high positions in the Trump White house was trashed, and the new team, with little time available, failed to bring in quality candidates and provide helpful advice to the President-elect. Instead, as Mr. Christie writes, Trump got “Russian lackey and future federal felon Michael Flynn as national security adviser,” the “greedy and inexperienced Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,” the “not-ready-for-prime-time Jeff Sessions as attorney general” and “a stranger named Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State."
I listened to the audiobook, and enjoyed Christie's bluntness. Maybe it's because of my NY / NJ roots, but I found Christie convincing in his speaking style. Christie is a "tell it like it is" East Coast politician - brash, but rational. In his previous jobs as a Prosecutor and Governor of New Jersey, he was what's becoming a rarity among politicians today, someone willing to work with the opposing political Party, and someone who doesn't believe that "compromise" is a betrayal or a dirty word.
The book covers a little bit of his life, his entry into politics, an overview of his time as Prosecutor and Governor, and then as a Trump supporter during the Presidential campaign. He was close to Donald Trump for years, well before Trump entered into the political arena, so endorsing Trump for President after his own campaign fell through isn't too hard to understand. He felt his experience could be valuable to Trump, and thought that he could help Trump in his job. Christie may have had a hidden agenda in endorsing Mr. Trump during the campaign, admitting to being interested in either the Vice President or Attorney General spot on the Trump ticket. So by helping his friend Trump, he must have felt he was improving his chances at one of those two spots. However, as he tells later in the book, previous animosity with the family of the President's son-in-law, and also with Presidential Advisor Steve Bannon, undid any advantage of Christie's friendship with Mr. Trump, and no role was offered in the White House.
Like so many other books about the Trump administration, Christie points out that the Trump team was understaffed by experienced political insiders, and some team members didn't serve Candidate Trump very well. Christie didn't told back on his opinion of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Senior Campaign Adviser Steve Bannon. Flynn was described as a loose cannon, a poor choice, and ultimately was fired and convicted of misdeeds. According to Christie and others in the Trump circle of advisers, Bannon was a major leaker of information, much of it false or invented information. Related to that, Christie, like many other Trump loyalists, criticized journalist Bob Woodward's book "FEAR" as containing many inaccuracies. But in this book, Christie doesn't directly blame Woodward for making up false statements. Rather, he ties most of what he considers inaccuracies in Woodward's book as stemming from leaks and distortions coming from Steve Bannon. Christie's criticism of Woodward's book is more that, as an experienced journalist, Woodward should have worked harder to verify information obtained from leakers and liars like Bannon.
Christie also discusses why, in his opinion, he was dismissed from his position on the Trump team as the Transition Team leader, and why he wasn't named as Trump's running mate. The reason was because of Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. Kushner held a grudge against Christie because as Federal Prosecutor, Christie prosecuted Kushner's father, and put him in jail. Kushner, while always civil to Christie during the campaign, apparently never could accept Christie in a leadership role in the Trump Administration. This had been widely reported, and Christie gives good evidence of this in his book.
Overall, I found the book to be quite enjoyable for a political book.… (más)