oped: The Donald has a history of looking down on his peers...dating back to HS and college..he is a user no ands ifs or buts about it! SEE: http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2016/02/donald-trump-at-wharton-ha-x-files.html
Faust
By Steve Berman
Just a month ago, there he was in New Hampshire warning of the evils of Donald Trump.
At a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., Mr. Christie expressed disbelief at Mr. Trump’s comment Saturday that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and lose no support in the 2016 campaign.“It’s pretty amazing to say it, isn’t it?” Mr. Christie asked.
Briefly slipping into an impression of Mr. Trump — “We’re stupid,” he deadpanned in a throaty baritone — Mr. Christie said he empathized with voters who want to “burn Washington down.”
“But who’s going to rebuild it once it gets burned down?” Mr. Christie said. “That’s what you’ve got to think about.”
By nominating the wrong candidate, he continued, “We could wind up turning over the White House to Hillary Clinton for four more years.”
That prospect, he said, would be “like the eight years we’ve just had, except worse.”
And now Christie’s Faustian bargain includes shilling for Trump (as long as he doesn’t take the spotlight from The Donald).
"... let this hour be but / A year, a month, a week, a natural day, /
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!"
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!"
Either New York values-types tend to cluster together, or maybe Trump has something on Christie that the N.J. governor would not like to be made public. It’s not like Trump hasn’t resorted to a form of plata o plomo (the kind of deals El Chapo favors) leverage before.
If you remember, just before the Iowa caucuses, Trump tried to strong-arm evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats into endorsing him, and when Vander Plaats didn’t make the deal, Trump threw mud.
Why doesn't phony @bobvanderplaats tell his followers all the times he asked for him and his family to stay at my hotels-didn't like paying
@realDonaldTrump Still consider you a friend and you still can't have my endorsement. My friendship isn't phony.
No mud for Pastor Robert Jeffress of Dallas First Baptist or Jerry
Falwell Jr. of Liberty University. I am not claiming there is mud there,
but a man like Trump has resources.And with someone like Christie, who’s just across the river and was a Manhattanite for many years (“when I was a Federal prosecutor”), I’m certain there’s plenty to smear on the Jersey governor beyond the normal bridges and favors.
When Trump is through with Christie, don’t look for any quid pro quo like a VP slot. Two northerners, two easterners, two New Yorkers won’t fly on Trump’s dream ticket (who knows who he’ll choose but it won’t be Christie). And Kasich, as an active candidate can offer more than Christie as a vassal.
Just add Christie’s name to the list of Trump’s fallen who have knelt before Zod and sacrificed their self-respect to the short-fingered god of vulgarians.
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