Posted on 08/19/2018 9:47:35 AM PDT by Coleus
President Donald Trump's interaction with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "disaster," "detrimental to the country" and the strongest evidence yet that "the president (should) step down."
Those are the words of former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman, a Republican, who penned a blistering op-ed in the Los Angeles Times this weekend calling on fellow GOPers to put country over party and dump Trump.
"In this election year, opposing Trump is risky for GOP candidates," Whitman wrote. "Invoking the need to choose country over party is an overused trope. But it is essential now."
The piece was a reaction to Trump's refusal last week to publicly rebuke Putin for meddling in the 2016 presidential during a summit between the two. Trump and Putin "spent a great deal of time" discussing allegations of Russian election meddling as they met for several hours on July 16, the U.S. president said at a joint press conference in Finland that day.
But Trump did not strongly condemn the interference efforts, which U.S. intelligence agencies insist did occur, including the hacking of Democratic emails, the subject of the recent indictments of 12 Russians.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
She took a break from kissing Bush butt?
Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman is unfit for the Milky Way galaxy, and she should just leave it.
crawl back to your elitist RINO club. >>
that’s how she became governor. She was first an unknown county freeholder/commissioner, never served as a legislator and just quickly gained the nomination.
She came out as a conservative then we saw her true colors once she became governor.
Hi 148,
that wasn’t too nice of him....I guess I’ll have to leave my job, family and friends to move to Hicksville or somewhere in the USA so I won’t be judged where I live, lol...
I love NJ and it’s a great place to live. The food is great as well as many of the people, the Jersey Shore, the mountains and the history, especially the Revolutionary War history and many of the famous Hollywood actors and singers came from NJ.
It’s not that we lost the culture wars, it’s that the country club GOP establishment refused to fight it, because they wanted their party to remain Frozen in Time, and ignore the changes in political demographics that the younger left-wing Democrats initiated decades ago.
Now we finally have a Republican leader who is molding the GOP into what it should have transformed into a long time ago, which the leadership did everything in its power to prevent for decades. And they don’t like it one bit.
Wow, there must be rattling skeletons in Christie’s closet. She sounds owned.
You know the Sec of Environmental Protection who said no worries Ground Zero is safe, a week after 9/11. That Christie Todd Whitman.
She grew up playing with the boys in the Bush family. That’s all you need to know.
Still not over the shame of having admired Bush Jr after 9/11. Cold Anger.
From the woman that destroyed ebay.
People in NJ never seem to find anyone good for public office. They therefore honor the bottom of the barrel.
Well, to this Jerseyan, Ms. Whitman, what makes one unfit for office is “borrowing” a billion from the state pension fund, which up until that point had been on a sound financial basis, to use elsewhere in the state budget, and failing to return the money, so that eventually the fund was severely underfinanced - to this Jerseyan, Ms. Whitman, you look like just one more big-money, horse-country, country-club, elitist Republican with so much contempt for and so little respect for the little working guy who put up with the political crap and exploitation to work for the state on the promise of at least having a semi-comfortable retirement that you could care less what happens to that guy as long as you have your trust-fund inheritance lavish old-age - to this Jerseyan, Ms. Whitman, Trump was elected to help eliminate thugs like you, and makes a better president than you could even imagine.....
Not that I'm going to watch.
All but impossible to replace WFB.
When we lived in Jersey and female Christie was gov, I wrote to her asking if there was not some limitation that she would consider against abortion.
Her reply using many wasted words: NOPE
I despise that snob of a woman.
[Really? Refusing to be oppositional during a meeting between heads of state is disqualifying for office? What must she make of Obama’s refusal to investigate the meddling for 6 months, after being told about it, when not even in a diplomatic setting? Should he have stepped down as well? ]
* And that may have, in part, been Trump’s reaction to Putin screwing him over at the summit and making him look like a stooge with an outrageous “offer” for a Ukraine referendum akin to Hitler “offering” a Sudetenland referendum. If Putin falls from power thanks to Trump putting his nuts in a vise, economically-speaking, this may have been the moment that Putin screwed himself by being too clever by half.
Christie put your head back where the sun don’t shine!
Tom Stayer is buying a lot of anti-Trump sentiment these days.
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