September 28, 2018

Great Trump moments

An excerpt from bestselling author Michael Lewis’ newest book, The Fifth Risk, that gives an inside look at Donald Trump’s “bungled presidential transition”

Chris Christie was the first to realize that Trump’s campaign would eventually need a transition team in case he actually won the election. But his longtime friend really didn’t want one, especially if it required spending money. In the end, Lewis wrote, Trump agreed to let Christie raise separate funds to pay for the team—as long as it didn’t come from his personal account or his campaign funds.

Eventually, Trump read about how Christie raised several million dollars to pay the staff of his new team, and he went “apoplectic,” accusing Christie of stealing his money.

“Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my fucking money?” Lewis writes. “Bannon and Christie together set out to explain to Trump federal law. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government.”

In response, Trump allegedly said, “Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money.”

“Shut it down,” said Trump. “Shut down the transition.”

Christie and Bannon were only able to convince the real-estate mogul to keep the transition team by asking him to imagine how shutting it down would look on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

“That makes sense,” he allegedly said.

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