Is The Bridgegate Trial The End....

of the road? It looks like Bridget Kelly may be the last witness. She'll probably be done with cross-examination tomorrow. Then it's in the hands of the jury. Almost 5 weeks of testimony and evidence-lots of it contradictory. More than a few bombshells. A clear picture of what Christie's administration was like-most of that not too surprising to anyone who has been paying attention to how they do business. Here's a summary of what the jury heard:

1. David Wildstein was Christie's man at the Port Authority. Put there to keep an eye on things and find ways of using the Port Authority's assets for Christie's benefit. He was feared and hated by "hundreds, maybe by thousands" at the PA. Baroni was sent there for his "leadership" qualities. Both of them reported to "Trenton" which was short hand for Christie. They lived by the "one constituent" rule where Christie was their only concern.

2. In September 2013 two access lanes to the George Washington Bridge were closed on the word of a couple of political operatives who claimed it was a "traffic study" and nobody questioned why a couple of knuckleheads with no qualifications would be playing traffic engineer with the world's busiest bridge during rush hour.

3. The lanes were closed as a means of political payback against a mayor who wouldn't play ball and endorse Christi even though he had been showered with football tickets, tours of ground zero and other attention. So the pretend traffic engineers decided to stage their little experiment to show him who was boss. They punished 1/2 million people for three days to get back at a mayor they were peeved with.

4. The idiots, Baroni, Kelly and Wildstein had planned this little caper for weeks and conveniently left an electronic paper trail of e-mails and texts. Some of them were callous and sarcastic and revealed the real depth of depravity that political ambition can cause. Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee and Is it wrong that I'm smiling have become punch lines but are really evidence of some truly sick individuals.

5. Everybody, and I mean everybody who testified, says that Christie knew before, during and after this fun little exercise. Despite this, Christie did nothing to stop it. He held multiple press conferences denying any knowledge of events and decided to throw Bridget Kelly under the bus to save his presidential ambitions.

6. Why, WHY, you ask would they do something like this? Well it seems they were obsessed with garnering endorsements from democrats to burnish Christie's image as an electable republican. They gave favors to democratic mayors using Port Authority assets to make them happy. They kept spread sheets detailing the transactions so they could track who to put the arm on for endorsements. All of this with taxpayer funded employees and with public property, like relics from the World Trade Center wreckage.

7. People Christie didn't like or who didn't cooperate the way that Christie wanted them too were put in "time out" or put in the "penalty box" where they were frozen out of meetings with state officials or denied benefits for their communities as punishment.

8. Lot's of Christie insiders knew what was going on too. But they all kept quiet. Emails and texts were deleted. They closed ranks around Christie and blamed Kelly. That doesn't mean she's blameless. It just means they tried to put it all on her.

9. When the NJ Legislature started to get wind that something funky was going on they called on Bill Baroni to explain. He gave a totally made-up version of the traffic study story in almost two hours of testimony that should have started "once upon a time" and ended with "they lived happily ever after". He was prepared by Christie crony Phillip Kwon who spent two days with Baroni cooking up the story. Kwon was appointed to the NJ Supreme Court by Christie, but his nomination was stalled.

10.. Christie's "I actually worked the cones" obnoxious press conference where he denied not only his knowledge but also knowledge by anyone on his staff came only hours after being informed that his staff was in it up to their eyeballs. It takes a special kind of scoundrel to like like that with a straight face.

11. When the emails hit the press, Christie didn't ask any questions, he just fired Bridget Kelly. Interestingly, Kelly got an unsolicited phone call from Christie's friend defense attorney Walter Timpone the next day. He told Kelly all was well and she would be alright. They would find a job for her. Who told him to call Kelly? Was there a retainer agreement signed? A fee paid? He mysteriously withdrew from representation two weeks later because of an alleged conflict. Christie appointed Timpone to the NJ Supreme Court.

12. Bill Stepien, now working on Trump's campaign, knew what was happening both before and as it was happening. He gave Kelly instructions on who to talk to and who to freeze out even after he left the employ of the state to work on Christie's gubernatorial campaign.

13. Oh, and I almost forgot! Christie is an ass hole and a bully who curses a lot and throws water bottles at his employees.

So, to make it short. Christie was obsessed with rolling up the score in his reelection to give him an advantage in running for President. His entire staff was in on the effort and used state time and assets to woo democrats to endorse him in that pursuit. Sokolich of Fort Lee and some other mayors didn't play ball. They were punished. Sokolich's punishment was a scheme hatched by Kelly, Wildstein, Baroni and Stepien-with Christie's knowledge-to close lanes to the GWB. It caused horrible gridlock. They tried to cover their tracks. They deleted emails and texts. Baroni lied, Kelly lied, Wildstein lied and most importantly Christie lied to hide the truth. What a sick and depraved story.

So it will soon be in the hands of the jury. Regardless of the verdict, will this be the end of the story? This was just one episode of the reign of terror that has been Christie's two terms as governor of my state. Is there going to be justice? Is there going to be follow up on the revelations that came out of this trial? I don't know. How can something so satisfying seem so-dissatisfying? Well, here's to justice. Now what am I going to have to post about?