GOP Governor Reveals Trump Begged Him for Dirt on Daughter’s In-Laws
April 7, 2026
The Daily Beast
Frank Franklin II / via REUTERSFormer New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that Donald Trump once asked him for dirt about his future in-laws to try to break up his daughter Ivanka’s wedding to Jared Kushner.Christie, speaking at a Harvard event on Monday, said the alleged request came when he was still U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, an office he held from 2002 to December 2008.
Jared and Ivanka got married in October 2009.“It became clear to Donald Trump that they were going to get married,” Christie, 63, said. “He was not thrilled, let’s say, about this, and I was still the prosecutor at the time... And he asked me to go out to dinner, and he said, ‘Do you have anything more on the family, so I can break this up?’”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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