Overview

• After watching Chris Christie on ABC’s This Week, President Trump suggested “start looking” again at the George Washington Bridge scandal and declared that no one is above the law.
• Christie said on the program that Trump rejects a separation between criminal investigations and the elected leader, criticizing what he described as a retributive approach.
• No new probe of Christie has been announced, and prosecutors previously declined to charge him over Bridgegate.
• Bridgegate led to convictions of two Christie aides, but the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned those convictions in 2020, a decision Trump publicly celebrated at the time.
• Christie also questioned Ghislaine Maxwell’s credibility and noted the Bolton search appeared to meet legal thresholds, underscoring his broader critique of how investigations are being wielded.