NJ.COM — In his first television interview since the George Washington Bridge scandal erupted, Gov. Chris Christie continued to blame former aides for last year’s controversial lane closures, saying what they did was “inexplicably stupid.”
“When things were first reported, I said: ‘This can’t possibly be true.’ Because who would do something like that?” the Republican governor told Diane Sawyer in a sit-down interview that aired tonight on ABC News’ “World News.” “Sometimes, people do inexplicably stupid things.”
“And so that’s what makes it so hard then to, as the guy in charge, … none of it made any sense to me,” Christie added. “And to some extent still does not.”
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