So I was almost done with the Goldberg File when the news came out that Chris Christie has endorsed Donald Trump. I missed the press conference but caught some of Trump’s interminable rant carried for free by all the news networks.

A few thoughts:

1. If this isn’t a classic example of Bill Rusher’s rule that “politicians will always disappointment you” I don’t know what is. Frankly I think Christie should be ashamed of himself. I could list a lot of reasons for that, but some of them would probably amount to me projecting my complaints about Trump onto Christie (about which subscribers to the G-File can read shortly).

So I’ll just give one based entirely on Christie’s terms. Christie spent a year telling the world that the entitlement crisis is the gravest threat to the future of the country (For instance, in the January 14 debate: ”The reason why no one wants to answer entitlements up here is because it’s hard”). But the day after Trump insisted that we don’t need to touch entitlements and that we can balance the budget by finding “waste, fraud and abuse” and eliminating Common Core, Christie comes out and celebrates Trump as the guy the country needs. Christie boasted constantly about the need to tell the American people hard truths and he endorsed the guy who tells little more than easy lies. What a profile in courage.