New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris Christie on Thursday said he’s not ruling in or out a possible role in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, saying his focus right now is on heading up Mr. Trump’s transition team.
“We have not talked about anything,” Mr. Christie said on NBC’s “Today” program. “The president-elect was absolutely adamant about not discussing the transition before he was elected.”
“He wanted to remain focused on what he needed to do, which was winning, and so he said to me back in May when he gave me the job, he said you focus on getting this ready for me,” he said.
“And he said we’ll talk on election night. So we spoke on election night, but we didn’t speak about me. We spoke about the transition,” Mr. Christie said.
Asked if he would want to be chief of staff or attorney general, Mr. Christie said: “You really don’t think I’m answering any of these questions, do you?”
“The answer is I am not committed to doing anything in a new administration — or not,” he said.
“The bottom line is that I have a job to do to help get the administration ready,” he said. “If there’s some role for me that I want to do and that the president-elect wants me to do, we’ve known each other for 14 years — we’ll talk about it.”
Mr. Christie, a former U.S. attorney, was also asked about the notion of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.
“I haven’t spoken to him about that, but what I’ll tell you is, they had an enormously gracious conversation with each other on Tuesday night,” he said. “The secretary was very gracious to Donald, to the president-elect, and the president-elect has been incredibly gracious to her.”
“Again, politics are over now — people have spoken,” Mr. Christie said. “Time to move to uniting the country.”
“The people get to speak through their vote, and they voted for Donald Trump to be the president of the United States, and it’s now his job — and I’m confident he will — bring the country together,” he said.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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