What he did in New Jersey is, in fact, political persecution - punishing those geographically more likely to oppose him politically. The sort of high crimes for which we excoriated Castro.

The prosecution's star witness on Tuesday detailed how Gov. Chris Christie was told of the traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge in the midst of the gridlock.

David Wildstein, who pleaded guilty to federal crimes associated with the Bridgegate scandal and turned government informant, testified he and Bill Baroni, Christie's top appointee at the Port Authority, boasted to the governor about the traffic jams when they saw him in person at a Sept. 11 memorial event in 2013.

"Mr. Baroni said, 'Governor I have to talk to you about something,'" Wildstein recalled.

&quot He said) there's a tremendous amount of traffic in Fort Lee ... and you'll be pleased to know Mayor (Mark) Sokolich is very frustrated," Wildstein said.

, Wildstein testified under oath the governor knew about the traffic jams.

According to Wildstein, Christie responded: "Well, I'm sure Mr. Edge would not be involved in anything political," referring to Wildstein's pseudonym as a political blogger, Wally Edge.

"Were you and Mr. Baroni bragging?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Cortes asked Wildstein.

"Yes, very much so," Wildstein said.

On Sept. 10, 2013, Wildstein told jurors he and Baroni discussed plans ahead of the governor's visit to boast about the scheme.

"We intended to talk to Gov. Christie about the effects of the lane closures," Wildstein said. "Kelly had previously said to me the governor is going to love this."

Anything to take media attention away from that abysmal debate appearance. *Sniff*

what are you going to do?

I'm going to Disney World!

Continuing debate coverage so far. (trump is taking a beating from them btw)