On Sunday, October 25, the Republican presidential candidate and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was reportedly kicked off the quiet car of an Amtrak train. He nearly missed his 9:55 Amtrak train from DC to New York.
Then, he didn’t get the seat he wanted on the train and to make things even worse, he got kicked out of the quiet car. Gawker reported.
Amtrak, is a partially government-funded American passenger railroad service. It is operated and managed as a for-profit corporation,and provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States.
According to a fellow rider Alexander Mann, a passenger on his way home to Manhattan, he was traveling in that very same quiet car when Christie got on, and promptly got off. He told Gawker:
He got on at the last minute, yelling at his two secret service agents, of what looked like a seat mix up, sat down and immediately started making phone calls on the quiet car.
After about 10 minutes the conductor asked him to stop talking loudly and gave him the option of moving to another car.
He got up and walked out again yelling at his secret service, while drinking a McDonald’s strawberry smoothie.
Samantha Smith, the governor's spokeswoman, said he was not yelling and that he left when he realized he was seated in the wrong car.
“On a very full train this morning, the Governor accidentally took a seat in Amtrak's notorious quiet car.
After breaking the cardinal rule of the quiet car, the Governor promptly left once he realized the serious nature of his mistake and enjoyed the rest of his time on the train from the cafe car,” she added.
“Sincere apologies to all the patrons of the quiet car that were offended.”
Armtrak spokesman Mark Magliari couldn't promptly decide the incident of what may have happened on the train with the governor Christie.
Magliari added, however, that Amtrak employees normally ask people talking loudly in the “quiet car” to move.
“It is routine for someone who is in the quiet car who is talking on their phone to be asked to change cars or discontinue their phone conversation,” he said.
Christie had appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” which is taped in Washington, to accuse President Obama of promoting “lawlessness.”
“There is lawlessness in this country. The president encourages this lawlessness," Christie said on CBS' Face the Nation. "He does not support the police, he doesn't back up the police. He justifies Black Lives Matter."
