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That’s gonna be bad for Christie.
Man, I wish he was polling better now!
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ruh roh… no Scooby Snack for Fat Boy…
I love these captionless photos, it allows us to project whateverso we want.
That’s Samantha Bee, warming up for her TBS show.
Actually, I do not love captionless photos.
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That’s Bridget Kelly.
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I can’t wait to hear their excuse for not having said documents. I visualize a W searching the Oval for WMD’s scenario.
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The Gibson Dunn that was required by law to keep all the “work product” from their tax-payer-funded “investigation” of Christie but failed to do so? I’m sure they’ll be extremely cooperative.
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My next door neighbors here in NH have attended events for Cruz, Kasich, Rubio and Christie in the last few days. I don’t think they were picking on his weight when they said they were genuinely shocked at how fat Christie is in person when he isn’t wearing his suit jacket–“like Humpty Dumpty with a really big fat butt”.
On Friday, a judge allowed their attorneys to subpoena documents from the Gibson Dunn law firm that include communications from Christie staffers during the lane closures.
They were paid with public dollars, therefore, their client is the citizens of NJ, not Christie. Though you wouldn’t know by the way they’ve acted. This decision should have been a no-brainer.
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I can’t wait to see how the law firm that was hired to exonerate Gov. 3rd-out-of-3-Govs-in-Iowa, on the taxpayer’s dime no less, responds to this request for documents that are probably not exculpatory for Gov. FatPantLoad. Wasn’t there a ruckus over their supposed destruction of the foundational evidence behind their flimsy report that claimed no wrong-doing by the former butt-kickin’ federal prosecutor. It’s not a very good look when the whitewash starts to run after your own formerly trusted top aides claim they’re being scapegoated by their boss who just happens to be running for President.
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The only reason Christie is running is to avoid the indictment waiting for him.
Baroni and Kelly don’t want these docs for their defense, they want the docs so that they can finger Christie and cop a plea. They have made that very clear from the start.
Christie used public funds so he can’t claim any sort of privilege for the documents. The lawyers weren’t being paid to defend him, they were paid to investigate.
The indictment probably isn’t the worst outcome for Christie either. You see the real issue at stake here wasn’t merely some petty payback, it was an attempt to sabotage a billion dollar development on the land that is right next to the on-ramp. The plot hasn’t been developed because it is owned by the mob and it has been idle since they were caught trying to bribe a previous mayor to let them develop it 30 odd years ago. The new development would cut the mob out of the action completely so they wanted it stopped. They decided on the date of the traffic study the same day that the meeting to finance the scheme was set and they set it to create chaos the day of the meeting.
Christie is far more than a bully, he is a corrupt, mobbed up politician who will likely be wearing cement boots in the Hudson soon after his Governorship ends.
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I’m not defending her, even though it will sound like I am, and maybe I have a soft spot for a pretty blonde… To be clear, she brought this shit on herself. With that said, she’s been thrown under the bus by him, stories have surfaced that her home may go into foreclosure. She’s toxic politically and can’t find work anywhere as a result of this. I’m saying all this because if there is anyone that can hang that fat fuck asshole, Christie, it’s her. SHE OWES HIM NOTHING! But, I still get the sense that she’s loyal to him for whatever reason. Maybe she thinks that if she’s a good soldier, she’ll be rewarded for it, down the road? That other GOP politicians will see that she took one for her leader and hire her? I dunno. If I knew her, I’d tell her to hang him, write a book about it, and collect! I hope she does the right thing and pins it on him. Just tell us what we already know, Bridget!
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It’s not Bridge-gate Kelly? Christie should have thought that one through.
The company that exonerated Christie was a sham…you wonder why Christie would let this happen. It stinks. Why would Christie pull the wool over taxpayers’ eyes and treat us like idiots?
Christie: I have nothing to hide. Please look at all email and documents that I dont want you to look at.
Will Christie finally go to jail for lying?? It would be justice if he did.
The folks who ought to be included in legal actions are the Gibson Dunn team because clearly they are using every weasel trick in the book to try and keep details of their “investigation” from defendants, prosecutors and the public:
1- Their note taking for their investigative interviews was highly suspect and partisan.
2- When ordered to submit copies of documents they used a byzantine system of PDFs and file structures to make the mountain of papers non-searchable and almost impossible to use without devoting mountains of manpower to going through every page and trying to make sense of the orgnization.
3- GD has received millions of NJ taxpayer dollars for their work on behalf of Christie and in so doing they have used highly questionable techniques and ethics. It is actions like this that continue to fuel public distrust and loathing of the legal system. However the system protects its own.
Christie is a loathsome weasel, but that said, he sure knew the kind of firm he needed to shield himself from the truth and it appears he got it.
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If I recall, this was another local story that started out fairly obscure until Rachel Maddow made it a national story, drawing in all kinds of disparate reporting on Christie’s blustering antics at the time. Its much the same way she’s doggedly gone after the Flint lead poison water story in Michigan by exposing a lot of the country to the ongoing situation on a regular basis.
Will someone give that woman a Pulitzer already!?!
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Thanks for refreshing my memory of the whole Bridgegate mess. There was a guy who wrote some really solid articles about it here on TPM, a law professor. Murphy? Memory ain’t what it used to be…
Why would that stop an indictment? He’s running because he wants to be President, or possibly a VP pick, though I don’t see him settling for #2. But you don’t become immune from indictment if you run for President, in fact an indictment would eliminate you from contention.
Plus I don’t see him getting indicted. He’s not dumb enough to document things. And I really don’t think he gave the order, it was his bozo staff. He likely knew well before he said he did and chewed them out, but no way that is on paper or email. So there will probably be no indictment. Just political damage.