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I have a hard time believing that Christie’s wife would have left (or taken temporary leave) from her company unless Christie knew that he was not going to be indicted. I’d LOVE to see him indicted, but my hunch is that he won’t be. He doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of winning, though.

Nice job, Brian.

Can we talk about Bridget Kelly next? No deal yet, but her lawyer hinted of one. She knows as much as Wildstein. Maybe she’s more valuable to Fishman? What about Baroni?

Time for some rats-fleeting-from-sinking-ships problems…

Ever since NY and NJ in the 90’s overtly allowed patronage in the NYPA, that entity has been a festering pustule awaiting lancing by an honest prosecutor uninterested in a future in elective office. Given that a guy like Christie (and, I am pretty certain, a guy like Cuomo, too) cannot stand to have independent thinkers with strong personalities on his team lest they say he is wrong about something, I am certain that Wildstein, Samson, and the rest facing confinement even in something akin to summer camp like a federal minimum security prison will spill their guts like a person who downs a bottle of ipecac after eating three slices of cheesecake. If only for the entertainment value, I hope this plays out slowly, so the big guy’s political career can slowly twist in the wind for all to see.

Great reporting thank you.

Old Chum? I don’t think so, Christie barely acknowledges the guy and unless Wildstein gets him first, Christie will crucify him.

Christie has no power over Wildstein. Not anymore. The most he could have ever done to him was fire him and rat him out to investigators. That ship has already sailed. I’m sure the prosecutors are full aware of the complete extent of Wildstein’s dealings. Christie can’t touch him anymore, but that doesn’t mean that life won’t be extremely difficult for Wildstein, guilty plea or no.

Christie’s wife leaving her job at Wall street could just be a cover to Christie’s donors that he is serious about running for POTUS to keep his donors on board. I still think that Christy has trouble coming. Samson will not want to go to jail, and deals will be made. In the end even if Christy still runs for POTUS, he will not make it, and the candidate who does win will not want the baggage from Christy and will not pick him up as his VP. I don’t feel sorry for Christy at all. Hopefully, his wife can get her job back again. They will probably need it.

[Christie] went so far as to have the state capital’s official portrait of Gov. Walter Edge removed from an upper tier of the building’s rotunda

Just as any plane carrying the president of the United States is designated Air Force One, any room occupied by Christie is the Rotunda.

It’s funny how the US Justice system works so slowly and methodically when the criminals are whites - they even get rights. But when our system takes action action blacks, the constitution goes right out the window.

If Chris Christie was a black man in Baltimore, he’d be sitting in jail waiting to see if the government was going to charge him with a criminal violation. And regardless of the crime, he’d have to post $ 500,000 cash bond or he’d sit in jail waiting for his trial date.

Christie’s “Bridge to the White House”: “I told my staff to ‘Close the damned fridge!’ …I was on a diet at the time!”

This is New Jersey we’re talking about here. Christie may not be able to hit Wildstein professionally but that doesn’t mean that Wildstein ought to be relaxed and sleeping easy at night.

It’s not like Christie plays by the rules and is just going to go, oh well, there’s nothing that I can do. Christie’s personal freedom and future Presidential aspirations are on the line, he won’t go without a fight.

The PA really is a mess. I’m still trying to figure out why the bridge and tunnel crossings went from $7 to $15 (carpool went from $1 to $7) under Christie/Coumo. It really is a regressive tax on commuters and only provided another thing to steal from. What happened to reform? Both of them vetoed it.

I’d have to figure Wildstein is playing a very very long game here…

Wildstein does not seem the kind of guy that wants to schmooze his way into some high paying low work political job. He’s a guy that would seem to want to do something big really big. Lobbying would seem out the window for him and wouldn’t fit his personality anyways.

He’s a strategic guy, he’s going to want to show us all smart he is - guess we’ll soon see if he’s as smart as he thinks he is

that’s not nice!!
I love it

Let’s all just have a moment of silence for Governor Weeble’s political future.

[Christie] doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning, though.

or a Hostess Snowball’s™ chance on Krispie’s dinner table

Could we please leave the Governor’s sexual maladies out of this?

Through primary season ought to suffice…