Let Me Finish review: Everybody hates Chris Christie - and he hates Jared Kushner

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Let Me Finish review: Everybody hates Chris Christie – and he hates Jared Kushner

The former New Jersey governor spares Donald Trump but lashes out at everyone else. The result is a political tour de farce

Lloyd Green
Tue 29 Jan 2019 06.00 GMT

Chris Christie failed to a win a single delegate in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and garnered less than 1% of the votes cast in the GOP primary. He then left the New Jersey governor’s mansion with a 14% approval rating. Let Me Finish, his bombshell of a book, could just as easily have been titled Everybody Hates Chris.

In time for the second anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Christie drops a dollop of revenge, chilled to malevolent perfection, Jared Kushner his primary target. Like most tell-alls, Let Me Finish is an exercise in score-settling, albeit one written from the realm of a dystopic presidency.

But what sets Let Me Finish apart is that it is authored by an elected official whom Trump offered several cabinet-levels positions – just not the ones Christie coveted, like attorney general. Christie was frequently, but not always, in the room where it happened. And so, Let Me Finish is a self-serving, fascinating and informative read.

From the get-go Kushner is the bane of Christie’s political existence. In his opening pages, Christie recalls how Steve Bannon came to fire him as the head of the transition, and in the process Christie extracted a confession that Bannon was only doing Kushner’s bidding.

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Kushner repeatedly stuck a dagger in Christie’s ambitions and Let Me Finish is Christie’s revenge. With the assistance of Ellis Henican, a veteran of Newsday and talk radio, Christie paints a portrait of Kushner as callow, smarmy, entitled and way over his skis. Kushner appears lacking in judgment even as he is cosseted by his family’s wealth and shielded by his father-in-law’s title. Said differently, if Kushner were not married to the boss’s daughter, he would not be anywhere near the Oval Office or still in possession of a security clearance.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/29/let-me-finish-review-chris-christie-jared-kushner-donald-trump

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Interesting. Had to look up dystopic

A dystopia is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as "not-good place" and is an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the ...

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. 1984 and Handmaid's Tale are both Dystopic

[Hortensis]

3. Swamp creatures eating each other.

I'll leave the job of examining this thing for pointers to the truth to historians.

[lkinwi]

4. He's certainly trying to whitewash his image. I'm guessing he wants to run again in the future, and

doesn’t want to anger tRump’s base. He was able to talk his way out of bridgegate by blaming underlings, but the beachgate pictures can’t be whitewashed. He’s just another republican, entitled a$$wipe.