Overview

• Trump threatened on Truth Social to revisit Bridgegate hours after Chris Christie criticized his approach to law enforcement on ABC’s This Week.
• Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump called Christie “a slob,” said he “always felt he was guilty” and claimed he “got away with murder,” while adding the Justice Department has other priorities.
• Trump stated that any move to investigate would be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi, and no formal probe into Christie has been announced.
• Christie has long denied wrongdoing, was never charged in the 2013 lane-closure scheme, and his aides’ convictions were unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court in 2020.
• The threat followed FBI searches of John Bolton’s home and office days earlier, which outlets cited in framing a broader pattern of federal actions targeting critics.