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“Chaos. Absolute chaos.” That is what we would get if Donald Trump were to be elected American president for a second time later this year. Chris Christie, former governor and until recently also a presidential candidate, makes that unassuming prediction in an interview with ABC news. He also expects serious staffing problems.
Until just over a month ago, Chris Christie, together with Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump and Nikki Haley, was angling for the Republican nomination to compete against current President Joe Biden during the presidential elections later this year. His message was clear then: never Trump again. Since he withdrew from the race, he has only started proclaiming it more loudly. Now also in an interview with ABC news.
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Asked what he expects if Trump is elected, Christie answers: “Chaos. Absolute chaos”. “Remember,” he continues, “in 2016, Trump was still a little scared because he didn’t expect to win. He was intimidated by the presidency when he ended up in the White House. That will not be the case now.”
“This is going to be a vendetta,” Christie said. “A vendetta presidency. He wants retribution and, in my opinion, will use the resources that the government has to punish the people who in his view have been disloyal to him or to his approach.”
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According to Christie, because of that fear, Trump still surrounded himself with capable people with a lot of experience when he moved into the White House. He mentions, among others, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former Defense Ministers Mark Esper and Jim Mattis, Attorney General Bill Barr and former Chief of Staff John Kelly. “Whether you agree with their policies or not, we are very solid and experienced people in government.”
Now he expects it to be completely different. “I can’t even imagine what kind of government he will put together now. He only wants yes-men who will do what he tells them. That becomes a very big personnel problem, if you only have people there who don’t belong there.”