Chris Christie's World Gets A Little Darker

While the Trump campaign disintegrates in a vortex of sexual assault accusations, Chris Christie’s world also got a little more complicated. A municipal judge in Bergen County, the county that contains the town of Fort Lee whose mayor was the target of the Bridgegate scandal, has issued a summons for Christie to appear in court over his role in shutting down four lanes on the George Washington Bridge. The summons now puts the ball in the Bergen County prosecutors office to decide whether Christie should be indicted.

David Wildstein has already testified in the on-going trial of two Christie aides that Christie knew about the political nature of the lane-closings while they were occurring. And there has been some indications in that trial that Christie was aware of the plan before it actually was put in place. Even to this day, Christie is adamant that he knew nothing about the political nature of the lane closings until weeks after they occurred. I have always believed that Christie hitched himself onto the Trump train in the hopes of getting a senior position in Trump’s administration in order to inoculate himself against this kind of investigation. Well, the job in the Trump administration is not going to happen and his claim of ignorance about Bridgegate may be put to the test in court someday soon.