<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of the Borowitz Report (New York Times) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/christies-endorsement-of-trump-threatens-to-overshadow-equally-prestigious-praise-from-david-duke?mbid=nl_022616%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%201&CNDID=24494982&spMailingID=8594941&spUserID=MTA5MjQwMjk3MzI4S0&spJobID=862643114&spReportId=ODYyNjQzMTE0S0#">http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/christies-endorsement-of-trump-threatens-to-overshadow-equally-prestigious-praise-from-david-duke?mbid=nl_022616%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%201&CNDID=24494982&spMailingID=8594941&spUserID=MTA5MjQwMjk3MzI4S0&spJobID=862643114&spReportId=ODYyNjQzMTE0S0#</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: ny-irvin-heading, 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 3rem; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 3.8rem; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Christie’s Endorsement of Trump Threatens to Overshadow Equally Prestigious Praise from David Duke</h1></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">FORT WORTH, TX (The Borowitz Report)—Aides to the G.O.P. front-runner, Donald Trump, expressed concern on Friday that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s endorsement of their candidate might overshadow equally impressive words of praise that Trump received yesterday from the former K.K.K. leader David Duke.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The scheduling of Christie’s endorsement just one day after the K.K.K. luminary’s boost was “obviously far from ideal,” the Trump aide Harland Dorrinson said.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“In a perfect world, you’d like some daylight between Christie’s endorsement and Duke’s statement of support, so they’d each have maximum impact,” he said. “As major as the Christie news is, we wouldn’t want the Duke thing to get lost in the shuffle.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The aide said that the events of the past twenty-four hours have been “dizzying.” “When the Christie thing happened, we were still celebrating the David Duke thing,” he said. “It’s been crazy.”</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dorrinson said that the Trump campaign expects an avalanche of endorsements from G.O.P. leaders, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis in the days and weeks ahead. “Sure, that’s going to cause scheduling problems,” he said. “But those are the kinds of problems every campaign would love to have.”</span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></body></html>