Chris Christie bashes Trump’s inner circle: He ‘trusts people he shouldn’t’

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn’t think too highly of President Trump’s confidantes in the White House.

Axios reports the 2016 GOP primary-rival-turned-supporter says in a new book Trump shouldn’t trust some of those people closest to him. Christie, who served for a time as Trump’s transition chairman in 2016 before being dumped from the position, calls the Trump insiders a “revolving door of deeply flawed individuals — amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted, and unconvicted felons — who were hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia.”

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