After the New Yorker published a thoroughly demoralizing anecdote this week about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie acting as a “manservant” for Donald Trump who fetches his fast food, Christie’s office strenuously denied the story.
A spokesperson for the governor called the reported errand, which an anonymous Republican source told the magazine was captured on Snapchat, “pure trash.”
“We categorically deny this ridiculous, completely invented scenario, which the writer attributed to an unnamed source’s anonymous friend,” spokesman Brian Murray told the Ashbury Park Press. “The fact the writer relegated this bit of sleaze between parenthesis certainly indicates he knew it was pure trash that had to be carefully separated from the rest of the story.”
The story caused enough of a stir that former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown, a Trump surrogate, said in a radio interview he would never courier food for the billionaire businessman.
“Yeah, that will never happen. Ever. Ever. Yeah, ever,” he said in the interview, which was first flagged by BuzzFeed.
It only took his office three days to respond, must have been a line at MickyD’s.
Nothing restores an impression of strength and dignity like an emphatic denial that you fetched a McDonald’s meal for the Boss.
And that no one believes the denial.