{"id":36350,"date":"2019-04-26T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36350"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T01:22:48","slug":"how-the-fat-escaped-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/26\/how-the-fat-escaped-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Fat Escaped the Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

I needed to take a day off from writing about Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten and his ongoing plot to overthrow the government of the US.\u00a0 And I think we need a reminder that the Republican Reich was evil and vile long before Putin had a Puppet in the White House.\u00a0 Do you remember Bridgegate.\u00a0 It was so obvious that Chris Christie, aka Pignocchio, was guilty that I thought he’d be wearing a 6X-BIG Orange Jumpsuit.\u00a0 I wondered how he escaped, and now we’re finally learning how the fat stayed out of the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"0426BRIDGEGATE\"<\/p>\n

A former Chris Christie aide sentenced to 13 months in prison for her role in \u201cBridgegate\u201d lashed out at her former boss, calling him a \u201ccoward\u201d and a \u201cbully\u201d as he continued to deny any knowledge of the scandal.<\/p>\n

Bridget Anne Kelly was sentenced Wednesday in the corruption case, which stemmed from the 2013 toll lane closures on the George Washington Bridge that snarled traffic in Fort Lee, New Jersey, for four days as part of an apparent revenge scheme.<\/p>\n

She was convicted in November 2016 along with Bill Baroni, former deputy executive director of the Port Authority. Both were found guilty of all seven charges<\/a> they faced, including conspiracy, fraud and civil rights deprivation.<\/p>\n

Speaking from a prepared statement after her sentencing, Kelly, 46, ripped into the former New Jersey governor, questioning how \u201call these men\u201d were able to \u201cescape justice.\u201d<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <People<\/a>><\/span><\/p>\n

I have little sympathy with Bridget Kelly.\u00a0 Those who lie down with dawgs<\/em> get up with fleas.\u00a0 However, the way she was set up to take the fall for Pignocchio is particularly heinous.\u00a0 Rachel Maddow covered this in two segments.\u00a0 In the first<\/a>, she sets up the story in detail (25 min.)<\/span><\/p>\n