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spanone

(135,816 posts)
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 08:27 AM Sep 2016

Donald Trump Stands by Chris Christie Despite Revelations in Bridge Closing Trial



When Donald J. Trump campaigned in South Carolina in December, in a crowded and tightening Republican primary, he made a pointed declaration about one of his opponents, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.

“He totally knew about it,” Mr. Trump told his supporters, referring to the 2013 shutdown of the George Washington Bridge by Christie aides, allegedly to punish a political foe. “They’re with him all the time, the people that did it.”

Mr. Christie, who was not charged, has repeatedly denied such claims. But in a federal courthouse in Newark on Monday, a prosecutor from the United States attorney’s office affirmed Mr. Trump’s view of the scandal, which helped scuttle Mr. Christie’s hopes for the presidency.

The prosecutor, Vikas Khanna, said that the aides, David Wildstein and Bill Baroni, had boasted to the governor about closing several lanes of a ramp connecting Fort Lee to the George Washington Bridge.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/us/politics/chris-christie-donald-trump.html
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Donald Trump Stands by Chris Christie Despite Revelations in Bridge Closing Trial (Original Post) spanone Sep 2016 OP
I hope Christie goes down with this and takes Trump with him. Dustlawyer Sep 2016 #1
how long and how many lies has christie put forward.... spanone Sep 2016 #2

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
1. I hope Christie goes down with this and takes Trump with him.
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 08:42 AM
Sep 2016

The second part of the above sentence is more of a long shot than the first, but you must aim high, or low as the case may be!

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