WASHINGTON – In his new memoir, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner believed that firing former national security adviser Michael Flynn would resolve the "Russia thing,"
Christie's book, "Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics," is scheduled to hit bookstores Tuesday.
According to the Times, one scene in the book describes a lunch Christie had with Trump and Kushner on Feb. 14, 2017, the day after Flynn was fired, for lying about his contacts with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
"This Russia thing is all over now, because I fired Flynn," Trump said, according to Christie, who wrote that he laughed in response to the president's remark.
"'Sir,' I said. 'This Russia thing is far from over,'" Christie wrote.
"What do you mean? Flynn met with the Russians. That was the problem. I fired Flynn. It’s over," Trump replied in Christie's telling.
"That’s right, firing Flynn ends the whole Russia thing," Kushner added. Christie said Kushner called him "crazy" when he said they would still be talking about Russia a year from then.
"What I was trying to do was help them and say, 'Listen, you guys need to get ready for a war,'" Christie explained Monday on "Good Morning America." He said it "turned out I undersold it."
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