Chris Christie Made First Responders the Butt of His Nasty 9/11 Joke

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Chris Christie Made First Responders the Butt of His Nasty 9/11 Joke
The New Jersey governor kept insisting he’d somehow found ‘vindication’ about Bridgegate. But as flunkies stand trial for that crime, the prosecutor made plain that the governor was no innocent.

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Michael Daly
09.21.16 1:13 AM ET

The photo of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his crony David Wildstein yukking it up at Ground Zero during a memorial observance of the 12th anniversary of 9/11 was insult enough to the thousands who were murdered there.

Insult becomes obscenity as a federal prosecutor now tells us what the government believes Christie and Wildstein and fellow crony Bill Baroni were laughing about that day in 2013.

As recounted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna in Newark federal court on Monday, Wildstein and Baroni bragged to Christie during this 9/11 memorial that they had shut down access lanes leading from Fort Lee to the George Washington Bridge three days before to punish the mayor of that New Jersey town because he had failed to endorse the governor for re-election.

The big laugh was that Wildstein and Baroni and Christie’s chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, had been ignoring repeated calls from the mayor, Mark Sokolich.

Sokolich had been growing increasingly desperate because the traffic resulting from the lane closures was creating what he termed “a public safety emergency” in which ambulances and other emergency vehicles were having trouble getting through.

“The evidence will show that Baroni and Wildstein were so committed to their plan to punish Mayor Sokolich during those few minutes they had alone with the governor they bragged about the fact there were traffic problems in Fort Lee and Mayor Sokolich was not getting his calls returned,” Khanna said.

The prosecutor’s remarks were delivered to the jury at the opening of what is expected to be a six-week trial. Baroni and Kelly face conspiracy, wire fraud, and civil rights charges for their part in the lane closures, which stretched for five days.

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1. The big laugh ...

The big laugh was that Wildstein and Baroni and Christie’s chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly,
had been ignoring repeated calls from the mayor, Mark Sokolich.