Who is Chris Liddell?

Who is Chris Liddell?
Brian Gaynor
Chris Liddell, the New Zealander in President Donald Trump’s White House, is a major topic of interest and conversation at present.How could an intelligent New Zealander, from a modest Waikato background, be one of Trump’s last remaining White House business supporters?Is there anything in Liddell’s background that explains why – for an annual White House salary of only US$30,000 – he continues to support the worst and most dangerous US president in the past 100 years, and probably of all time?Jarden & Co ...

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