Christie says Trump kept classified docs because ‘he wants to pretend he’s still president’

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Christie says Trump kept classified docs because ‘he wants to pretend he’s still president’
thehill.com

Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) 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…

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This take lets TFG off the hook for charges of treason and espionage. I don’t buy it.

Christie is still a Republican, just an old-school one. he knows how to pull his punches, unlike MTG who just paid the price for her lack of decorum, at last.

He said it was "ego," not that he was delusional. TFG knows he isn't president, but he wants the papers to make others think that he is.