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Undated: Christopher James Christie
(born September 6, 1962) is an American politician, former federal prosecutor, and political commentator who served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. During his governorship, he chaired the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission in 2017. Christie became an ABC News contributor in 2018 after leaving office.

Christie was born in Newark and raised in Livingston. He volunteered for Thomas Kean's gubernatorial campaign at age 15. After graduating in 1984 from the University of Delaware, he earned a J.D. at Seton Hall. He practiced law from 1987 to 2002. He was elected county freeholder (legislator) for Morris County, serving from 1995 to 1998. By 2002, he had campaigned for Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush; the latter appointed him U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, a position he held from 2002 to 2008.

Christie chaired the Republican Governors Association for the 2014 election cycle.[13] On June 30, 2015, he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. He suspended his candidacy on February 10, 2016,[14][15][16][17][18][19] and soon after endorsed Donald Trump, who named him head of his transition planning team.[20] Christie was strongly considered to be Trump's running mate but was not chosen. Soon after the election, Christie was replaced on the transition team by Mike Pence, as were three of Christie's associates.[21][22][23] He chaired the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission in 2017 after being appointed by Trump.[24][25] He has been considered for numerous positions in Donald Trump's cabinet.


Christie won the 2009 Republican primary for Governor of New Jersey, defeating the incumbent Jon Corzine in the general election. During his first term, he was credited with cutting spending, capping property tax growth, and was praised for his response to and recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy, and was re-elected by a wide margin in 2013.[1] Christie is a moderate Republican relative to the national GOP.[2][3] After the start of his second term as governor, Christie's standing was damaged by the Fort Lee lane closure scandal.[4][5][6][7][8] Since then, he has ranked among the least popular governors in the United States; for example, a September 2016 poll found that he was the third least popular governor in the country, with an approval rating of 29%.[9] By June 2017, he was found to have an approval rating of 15%, the lowest recorded for any New Jersey governor.[10][11] As of July 2017, his disapproval rating of 69% was the highest of all governors in the nation.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Christie


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February 26: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie endorses Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, saying he has the best chance of beating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in November's election.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/86032779-157.html

July 22: Political conventions used to be celebratory affairs. But in Cleveland this week, the most reliable source of good cheer has been Republicans’ collective fantasy of putting Hillary Clinton behind bars.

First there were the ritualized chants of “lock her up.” Then, leading Trump surrogate (and former federal prosecutor) Gov. Chris Christie used his podium time to conduct a mock show trial, leading a call-and-response to delighted cries of “guilty!” The next day, a Trump delegate and adviser said that the presumptive Democratic nominee for president — a former secretary of state, senator, and first lady (whom the FBI declined to charge with any crime after a long investigation into her email practices) — “should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.” The best Trump’s spokeswoman could muster was that “we don’t agree with his comments” while reaffirming that “we’re incredibly grateful for his support.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/22/the-republican-lock-her-up-chants-were-disturbing-they-were-also-inevitable/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a9eabda49774

August 17: Trump Casinos’ Tax Debt Was $30 Million. Then Christie Took Office.

By the time Chris Christie became governor of New Jersey, the state’s auditors and lawyers had been battling for several years to collect long-overdue taxes owed by the casinos founded by his friend Donald J. Trump.

The total, with interest, had grown to almost $30 million. The state had doggedly pursued the matter through two of the casinos’ bankruptcy cases and even accused the company led by Mr. Trump of filing false reports with state casino regulators about the amount of taxes it had paid.

But the year after Governor Christie, a Republican, took office, the tone of the litigation shifted. The state entertained settlement offers. And in December 2011, after six years in court, the state agreed to accept just $5 million, roughly 17 cents on the dollar of what auditors said the casinos owed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/politics/trump-chris-christie-casinos.html

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January 5: How Donald Trump totally destroyed Chris Christie
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/05/donald-trumps-utter-decimation-of-chris-christie/?utm_term=.f624eb036548

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October 2: Chris Christie on early Trump problems: ‘I probably could have prevented 75 percent of them’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/chris-christie-explains-donald-trump/2018/09/28/9f053f0c-b21e-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.23c26de66439

November 8: Trump considering Chris Christie for attorney general
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-chris-christie-jared-kushner-feud-20181108.html

December 9: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday that President Trump should be worried about prosecutors linking him to his former attorney Michael Cohen's criminal activities.

"You're not totally clear," Christie said on ABC's "This Week."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/chris-christie-trump-not-totally-clear-of-legal-jeopardy

December 14: Trump reportedly close to picking Chris Christie in 'reality TV' hunt for new chief of staff
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-looking-at-chris-christie-for-chief-of-staff-reports-2018-12

December 14: Christie takes himself out of running for White House chief of staff
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/14/politics/chris-christie-donald-trump-chief-of-staff/index.html


December 23: Chris Christie compares Trump to 'a 72-year-old relative' who always thinks they're right
https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-christie-compares-trump-to-stubborn-elderly-relative-2018-12

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