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Chris Christie warns a Trump second term will be a ‘vendetta presidency’

Source: Screenshot / ABC News

Chris Christie has warned that a second Donald Trump term in the White House would become a “vendetta presidency” where the former president would go after those he feels have wronged him.

Speaking with ABC News in his first interview since dropping out of the Republican race, Mr Christie said that a second Trump administration would have a massive personnel problem.

“Mayhem. Absolute mayhem,” he predicted about the future of the country should Mr Trump win the 2024 presidential election.

“First off, people forget that in the first term, he got a lot of good people to work for him in that administration.”

a number of cabinet-level officials who were eventually fired or quit, such as former secretary of state Rex Tillerson, former defence secretaries Mark Esper and Jim Mattis, former attorney general Bill Barr, as well as former White House chief of staff John

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