Christie Doubles Down On His Lies About Bridgegate

Chris Christie has doubled down on his evident lie that he knew nothing about the Bridgegate scandal. In an interview on CBS Good Morning America, Christie said, “In the whole trial no one, not even Bridget Kelly, Bill Baroni or David Wildstein, ever testified that anyone ever said to me that this was an act of political retribution.” That statement is patently false. Wildstein testified that Christie was told about the lane closures at the September 11 memorial event and Christie responded sarcastically that Wildstein “would never be involved in anything political.”  In addition, Christie has always maintained he knew nothing about the lane closures until well after they occurred but testimony from multiple witnesses at the trial confirmed that he was certainly informed of the closures as they were going on at that September event and other witnesses said he was informed of the lane closures before they occurred. Remarkably, Christie seems to have no recollection of any of the conversations these witnesses testified to. It is incredible that not only does Christie totally mischaracterize the evidence produced at the Bridgegate trial but also continues his fiction of ignorance in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It seems he is almost daring prosecutors to charge him. For the sake of the truth, let’s hope they take the Governor up on that challenge.