Christie: 'Im serving the rest of my term'
By RYAN HUTCHINS 11/21/16 08:20 PM EST
Gov. Chris Christie said on Monday night that he does not plan to accept a job in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, declaring on his monthly radio show, “I’m serving the rest of my term.”
The remarks by the governor, who was among the first mainstream Republicans to support Trump’s candidacy, were his most definitive yet on the subject and come a day after he met with the president-elect at his golf club in Bedminster.
While Christie insisted on Monday that his position had not changed — that he’s been insisting all along that he would remain in New Jersey until his term ends in January, 2018 — he had previously left the door open to taking a cabinet position. And even after Christie was removed from his post as chairman of Trump's transition team, speculation continued to swirl that he may get a high-level position.
“I have said to the president-elect, reminding him, that I have 14 months left in my term and that it’s my desire to finish my term,” Christie said on New Jersey 101.5 FM, which airs a monthly “Ask the Governor” program. “You don’t ever look at the president — at least I don’t — look at a president of the United States and say to them, ‘under no circumstances will I consider anything you ask me to do.’ But I think the president-elect understands that I feel like I’ve got an obligation here in the state to complete the term I was elected to.” Christie chastised reporters for suggesting that he’d be taking a job, saying to host Eric Scott that “your colleagues in the media need something to do.”
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"He made me his bitch and then dumped me!" 