In another timeline, Chris Christie , who ran Donald Trump ’s 2016 transition team, might have wound up in Trump’s Cabinet. And it’s easy to picture the two pals chuckling about that “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email memorably sent by a Christie staffer. Back in 2013, the New Jersey governor’s associates closed several access lanes to the George Washington Bridge to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, who had failed to endorse Christie.
Instead, we’re living in the timeline in which Christie turned on Trump after he refused to concede the 2020 election to Joe Biden, then ran a doomed primary campaign against Trump in 2024. Now, the former governor’s ongoing public criticism of Trump has led the president to threaten to investigate him over t