TRENTON, N.J. — Anyone worried that Republican Gov. Chris Christie was being held hostage by Donald Trump as he stood, seemingly shell-shocked, behind the GOP presidential front-runner on Super Tuesday can rest easy.
“No, I wasn’t being held hostage. No, I wasn’t sitting up there thinking, ‘Oh, my God, what have I done?’ ” Christie said Thursday back home in New Jersey. “I don’t know what I was supposed to be doing. All these armchair psychiatrists should give it a break.”
He said his face was stoic because he was listening as Trump spoke.
“I stood where they asked me to stand. What do I care? Do you think I really care? … I really don’t,” he said.
Christie also said he won’t heed calls from a handful of newspapers to resign and will continue helping Trump’s campaign. Christie said he doesn’t agree with Trump on everything, although he wasn’t specific. He said he has told Trump when he disagreed with him and has tried to change his mind.
“That’s what a good endorser does,” Christie said.
