Christie: Trump is surrounded by ‘amateurs, grifters, weaklings’ and ‘felons’ — but it’s not really his fault

Credit: Luke Sharrett, Bloomberg

The latest in a growing line of tell-all books from within President Trump’s political orbit is hitting the shelves soon. And judging by what we’ve seen so far about Chris Christie’s book — and what we know about him as a person — there will be plenty of score-settling.

But one person has apparently escaped much of Christie’s blame for what ails the White House: Trump himself. Early book excerpts suggest Christie strains to spare Trump much responsibility for the chaos in which the president has found himself surrounded.

Trump said recently of the shutdown debate, “The buck stops with everybody,” and the former New Jersey governor seems to agree.

View the complete January 16 article by Aaron Blake on The Washington Post website here.