Former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, a friend of Donald Trump and former transition adviser for the Trump campaign, talks about the president’s prospects for coming out ahead of the next three week government funding deadline on ABC’s ‘This Week.’
CHRISTIE: I believe it is. I believe that, you know, he nor the people around him developed an endgame to that. If you are going to close the government, then you have got to have an endgame on how you get out when the moment is ready to get out with a way that is face saving for you and for the other people.
And as far as I could tell there was no plan on how to do that. And that’s an impulsive decision on his part, but also the people around him. And how does he get out now, he hits the reset button. He is the president of the United States. So, OK, now you have got three weeks to hit the reset button. Now come up with a plan that thank you is sellable and winnable for the country and for you politically.
I could tell you, everybody counts Donald Trump out as always being wrong. He has a great ability to be able to recover from things because he is strong and I say in the book, he is fearless. I mean, he’s fearless in a way that I have seen few people in politics be fearless. And so those are all good points, but when you act on impulse and you don’t have a plan sometimes, as I think what happened with the shutdown, it doesn’t end well.
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