What a big hypocrite!
A former Port Authority official with close ties to Gov. Chris Christie said Friday senior staffers in Trenton told him to use personal email for government business.
Christie, now a major player behind the scenes of Donald Trump’s campaign for president, has repeatedly slammed Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State, accusing her of trying to sidestep disclosure laws.
But testifying Friday under a cooperation agreement with the government in the Bridgegate trial, Christie pal David Wildstein said he and former Christie aide Bridget Kelly typically corresponded using their personal email accounts — as they’d been urged to do by Christie’s office.
“What had been explained to me was that personal emails weren’t discoverable in a (Freedom of Information) or public records request,” Wildstein said. “I had received those instructions from numerous people at the governor’s office.”
Christie slammed Clinton for essentially the same practice during his over-the-top prosecutorial speech at the Republican National Convention.
“Hillary Clinton cared more about protecting her own secrets than she did about protecting America’s secrets. Then she lied about it over and over and over again,” Christie said in July.
