BAY HEAD, NJ — Chris Christie is one of many Trump allies who insists Bob Woodward didn’t accurately represent him in his new White House expose.
On Tuesday, the ex-New Jersey governor took to Twitter and tore into the legendary investigative reporter’s “Fear: Trump in the White House” account of his role in the greater Trump sphere; Woodward’s account of the future president, Christie, and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s interactions during the transition period is particularly controversial and conflict-laden:
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.@bobwoodward_ on Today Show about the “building blocks of journalism”. Seems to me that if you are going to directly quote someone based on another person’s account, least you should do is call quoted person to fact check. Bob Woodward never called me. Is that a building block? https://t.co/R7SCvc3Aif
— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) September 10, 2018
"Unfortunately, it appears Bob Woodward has used perpetual leaker Steve Bannon as a co-author for his book. His non-stop, self-centered leaking is why Steve was fired from the White House in the first place.
— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) September 11, 2018
If Mr. Woodward would have performed rudimentary journalistic fact checking with those he was quoting, he would have had a more accurate book rather than just being a stenographer for Mr. Bannon's self-aggrandizing revisionist history.
— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) September 11, 2018
To be clear, a number of the statements attributed to me and from others to me in the Woodward book are incorrect. I would have been happy to correct them if Mr. Woodward or any member of his staff would have called me, as a person they were quoting, for standard fact checking.
— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) September 11, 2018
This is especially true when you hear from people like me who he directly quotes in his book that he never fact checked with in any way. https://t.co/43Nig0RFH8
— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) September 11, 2018
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“That’s why he lost. You’re jinxing me,” Trump allegedly told Christie upon learning of fundraising for the Trump-Pence transition team during the 2016 campaign.
“Where the f—k is the money?” purportedly added Trump before telling the Governor of New Jersey that he was shutting down the operation.
Christie was ultimately shuffled out of the Trump transition chairman’s position. The transition team wasn’t shut down but it was scaled back.
Bannon, of course, was fired early into the first term.
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