[h=1]Chris Christie dismisses Trump's words to Comey and questions former FBI chief's memory: 'Everybody hears what they want to hear'[/h]
- Fired FBI director James Comey claims Donald Trump told heim he expected 'loyalty' and wanted him to back off Mike Flynn, asking him to 'let this go'
- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Trump confidant, said on MSNBC that it's 'normal New York City conversation' and Trump didn't understand FBI culture
- Christie also said while he respects Comey, it was 'hard to tell' if he is telling the truth: 'I mean, you know, I want to hear Jim say it'
- 'I'm not going to presume anybody is lying. And quite frankly, in these kind of conversations everybody hears what they want to hear,' he said
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's awkward exchanges described by fired FBI Director James Comey were 'normal New York City conversation.'
'They elected an outsider president,' said Christie, who was a Trump surrogate during the campaign and briefly chaired his transition organization after the November election. 'They elected someone who had never been inside government, and quite frankly hadn't spent a lot of time interacting with government except at the local level.'
'And so the idea of the way – the tradition of these agencies – it's not something that he's ever been steeped in,' Christie said on MSNBC.
'What you're seeing is a president who is now, very publicly, learning about the way people react to what he considers to be normal New York City conversation.'
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dismissed concerns about Donald Trump's conversations with James Comey, saying his awkward requests for loyalty and a dropped FBI investigation were just 'normal New York City conversation'
'They elected an outsider president,' said Christie, who was a Trump surrogate during the campaign and briefly chaired his transition organization after the November election. 'They elected someone who had never been inside government, and quite frankly hadn't spent a lot of time interacting with government except at the local level.'
'And so the idea of the way – the tradition of these agencies – it's not something that he's ever been steeped in,' Christie said on MSNBC.
'What you're seeing is a president who is now, very publicly, learning about the way people react to what he considers to be normal New York City conversation.'
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dismissed concerns about Donald Trump's conversations with James Comey, saying his awkward requests for loyalty and a dropped FBI investigation were just 'normal New York City conversation'
