THE PURGE

Christie: Trump Might Fire Obama Gov’t Appointees

Chris Christie says.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says that if Donald Trump is elected president, he might fire Obama appointees en masse and push for legislation to make it easier to fire government employees. Christie added the campaign is building and maintaining a list of federal workers to fire if Trump becomes president in January 2017. “As you know from his other career, Donald likes to fire people,” he said at a private donor meeting, according to Reuters sources. He went on: “It’s called burrowing. You take them all from the political-appointee side into the civil-service side, in order to try to set up... roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the W’s off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House.” Christie is leading the campaign’s presumptive transition team.