Chris Christie: I Turned Down Trump’s Cabinet Post Offers Because My Wife Wouldn’t Move To Washington

Uh huh. NJ.com reports:

Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday disclosed that first lady Mary Pat Christie had refused to move with the governor to Washington D.C. should he take a job in the Trump cabinet, and that this informed the governor’s decision to turn down several cabinet-level slots.

“He didn’t offer me a job that I thought was exciting enough for me to leave the governorship, and my family,” said Christie. “Because Mary Pat made really clear she wasn’t coming to D.C.” On Wednesday, co-host Craig Carton interjected, “You would have had to given at least a two-year commitment to be there.”

“Correct,” answered the governor. In December, Trump transition sources told NJ Advance Media that Christie was offered cabinet-level posts like secretary of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, as well as a slot as a top White House aide and U.S. ambassador to Italy, but declined them all.