"Seems to me that if you are going to directly quote someone based on another person’s account, least you should do is call quoted person to fact check," the former New Jersey governor wrote online.
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Christie also accused Woodward of relying too heavily upon former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon for his sourcing. He derided the ex-Trump adviser as a "perpetual leaker" and called him the "co-author" of Woodward's latest work.
"If Mr. Woodward would have performed rudimentary journalistic fact checking with those he was quoting, he would have had a more accurate book rather than just being a stenographer for Mr. Bannon's self-aggrandizing revisionist history," Christie tweeted.
