As I recall, the moment Trump stopped being a good fiend and became a hated enemy of Christie is when Trump did not make him Chief of Staff of the WH (or other top job). That fact says it all about the character of Chris Christie.
He missed out on AG and possibly SOS because he was facing impeachment for his little Bridgegate scandal. Then he was making bad swamp recommendations for staffing and was let go from the Transition Team. Then there was Christie twisting Trump’s Access Video comments around making it out to be Trump is assaulting people. But Christie doesn’t mention that and it was all Trump’s fault and all Trump does is “lie” to everyone according to pathological liar Christie.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2016/11/breaking_christie_wont_be_trumps_attorney_general.html
But unlike the governor, Sessions also has served as a state attorney general, elected to Alabama’s top law enforcement post in 1994 and serving for two years before running successfully for the U.S. Senate in 1996.
Sessions was also untainted by a federal trial like Bridgegate, which resulted in the guilty convictions of two of Christie’s top allies and all but assured the governor was out of the running for attorney general given that more indictments are still technically possible. The convictions may also have contributed to Christie’s demotion from chairman of Trump’s transition planning effort.
But Christie might also have been damaged by refusing to defend Trump in October, when a video surfaced of Trump speaking in profane terms about women and bragging of his willingness and ability to engage in sexual assault with impunity because of his celebrity status.
Christie says ‘no reason to believe’ Trump job imminent
In the aftermath the leaked Access Hollywood video, Sessions told the Weekly Standard that while Trump used “very improper language” “I don’t characterize that as sexual assault. I think that’s a stretch.”
When a reporter asked Sessions, “So if you grab a woman by the genitals, that’s not sexual assault?” Sessions answered, “I don’t know. It’s not clear that he — how that would occur.”
Christie, by comparison, took to WFAN in October and called the leaked remarks “completely indefensible” and “just unacceptable,” adding, “I won’t and haven’t defended it.”
The selection of Sessions over Christie for attorney general doesn’t necessarily mean that the governor won’t be picked for some other high level post within the Trump administration, given his longstanding friendship with Trump.
But a new CNN report says that Trump and his innermost circle were especially dissatisfied with Christie’s approaches to the transition staffing because they were out of tune with the righteous anger directed at the Washington establishment that swept the tycoon into power.
CNN reported on Thursday evening that after Trump’s team met with Christie to go over staffing and cabinet positions for the President-elect’s administration two days after the election, they quickly considered Christie’s transition memo “a non-starter” because it “reflected the Washington establishment, including lobbyists.”
As such, Trump is faced with a conundrum. He prizes loyalty and trustworthiness, but has also vowed to “drain the swamp” of Washington’s lobbyists and upend the Republican establishment which Christie has proven himself willing to embrace while transition chief.
Christie, who is reportedly in contention for Secretary of Homeland Security, seemed to cast doubt on the idea that he’d wind up in with a Washington DC-area address.
“For everyone worried about what I’m going to do, and what job I should take and where I should live, let me give you all an update,” said the governor on Thursday afternoon. “I have every intention of serving out my full term of governor and I have no reason to believe as we stand here today that I will do anything other than serve out my full term as governor.”
You're right. I remember that.
Just like Judge "Lil' Napoleon" Napolitano.