I hate Christie, but I am not sure Christie knew anything about this.....

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112. only one thing I think he didn't know

I live in NJ. Here's my two cents on this. I can tell you everyone here knows that you don't cross Christie or pay back is what you get. It is easy to find the incidents that are clearly about this. This particular incident, I think, was setup by Christie, I believe that. Did he know the details or choose to get involved at that level of it? Maybe not.

There is no way I believe, however, that his deputy chief of staff did this on her own, and his man at the Port Authority, who is now taking the 5th in his testimony to the state legislative investigation committee closed the lanes on her say so alone without some higher up authority. Look at the email she sent, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee." Immediate response by Wildstein, "Got it." This was planned and talked about beforehand. And no way in the Christie administration are these guys out there doing things on their own. I just cannot believe that. Whether anyone can prove it is another question.

And I think one thing is true in what Christie said at his press conference, he was lied to and surprised, but only in finding out there is an email trail that his crew hadn't told him about, not that they were involved. He tried his usual joking this is stupid don't ask me about it game for several months, but it didn't work this time. People kept asking questions. And I am sure he thought there was no way to actually link this to his office. In that, he was surprised and disappointed at the stupidity of his staff.