Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ® said Thursday that he believes former President Trump kept classified documents after leaving the White House because “he wants to pretend he’s still president.” “I think it was purely ego,” Christie told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I think, Jake, he could not and still cannot…
I don’t doubt this is a part of the reason. Maybe not the whole reason, but it’s dumb and petty enough to be believable
maybe it was a small part, but it would be pretty naive to think that it was a significant part. he’s not kid ourselves— trump waned to somehow profit from his possession of these documents and very likely did. any other reason certainly revolves around pettiness and bitterness over losing, but his playing make-believe and boosting his own sense of self-importance would have been pretty low on his list priorities of keeping them, especially at the end, certainly below his overinflated sense of entitlement.
and that’s exactly what I think Christie is— naive… that, and obviously attempting to get a rise out of Trump, which, as we all know, is pretty easy to do.
Make no mistake, Christie is not even remotely naive. He is being deliberately disingenuous to downplay the severity of the situation.
given his past behavior, especially regarding trump, I really don’t know how you can say this with a straight face.