Chris Christie’s Agonizing Memoir

Matt Taibbi reviews Chris Christie’s new memoir, Let Me Finish and revels in the former governor’s failed attempts to land a job in the Trump administration:

It’s only at this point that Christie realizes he’s been had, and he trudges upstairs to ‘say goodbye’ to Trump. The latter of course pretends not to know what the problem is and asks Christie to ‘come back here tomorrow.’ There’s suspense as we wait to see if Christie will take the bait one more time, but he doesn’t. This is the end of the inside account of Trumpland.

Legendary tough guy and breaker-of-balls Chris Christie sold his soul to get the Vice Presidency, and ended up being offered a one-way plane ticket to Vatican City — probably the only real offer he ever got. Despite where it comes from, it’s hard not to see the humor in this.

Christie sold us all out three years ago, and now, in print, he’s doing it to himself. That doesn’t make up for anything, but it is good for a laugh or two — which all too often is the most politics has to offer these days.