Christie's 111 Minutes Of Contrition Has Holes That Investigators Will Discover

Right now the Chris Christie story is in the hands of professional investigators, similar to the reporter who uncovered this debacle, but investigator's with subpoena power to boot.

Since New Jersey State rep. Barbara Buono was the first to expose the intimidating nature of Christie, I will refer to her in making a calculation about where this all ends.  Buono says that Christie will end up leaving office before his term is done, but it will not be to run for president.

The problem with contrition when faced with personal failure is that humans have a sadistic hunger for uncovering disingenuous humility.  We have created machines that detect it and experts who observe body language in a quest for real humility.  The 111 minutes of contrition will prove to be the biggest failure in the Chris Christie governorship.  

The performance was flawless to those who do believe in Christie because it showed him to be a crisis manager of the highest order.  Here is the problem with a crisis manager that performed as well as Christie performed.  Why do you suddenly become a high level crisis manager when 4 days of the broken bridge that you and yours use everyday only produced the "laugh it off" press conference?

The reality of what Christie has revealed is that he is masterful in front of the camera.  He was masterful during the "laugh it off" press conference and he remained masterful in the "111 minutes of contrition" press conference.  Because so many Americans limit there consumption of this stuff to headlines and soundbites, he has given himself every opportunity to recover from the public perception issue.  In fact, he clearly improved his public perception for those who like politics with Jersey swag or simply think a tough guy may be necessary for times like these.  All could be well in this matter.

If it wasn't for those professional investigators.

Professional investigators find things because it is what they do.  They cross reference the things you say against the documented facts that support it or disprove it.  They are currently combing through pages of information and they will compare those pages to Christie's 111 minutes.  At some point, they will be forced to resolve this matter by gaining access to redacted (removed) documents and/or Christie's personal email/testimony as well. 

Here is where things get tricky.  Executive privilege protects Christie from having to give his personal documents or testimony, but it does not protect him from the increased suspicion if in fact he chooses to exercise this privilege.  Roads do not shut down with a short, one sentence email unless people who shut down roads have planned in advance.  If Christie did not have to take part in this planning to make this happen, and New York had to intervene to stop it from happening, somebody in New Jersey was clearly responsible.  Christie assumed as much when he met with his team for an hour (as he says) to ask who did this.  He claims that the people he trusts the most lied to him in his face for one hour.  Not five minutes, one hour of lies.

So they lied to him about their involvement.  If I am in a meeting to uncover the truth about a problem and my team says they did not cause the problem, that does not instantly mean that someone else did not because the roads clearly were shut down.  In fact, if he truly believed his team, he owed it to them and himself to pin this issue on the creator of the problem instead of meeting with his team for an hour of tough question and answers but then laughing it off in a press conference with no further investigation.

No, Christie knew about this and the heat will be turned up to make him admit that he lied to us as well.  Even if no other connections are found, he will be asked to answer the current investigators question of why no investigators except the journalist who kept asking for an investigation? His current answer is that he did not think it was a real problem hence the "laugh it off" press conference, but he also says that he lost sleep for days prior to the "contrition" press conference.  Why would he lose sleep over an issue that he did not learn about until 8:50 or 8:55 the previous morning.  The holes have been found and they will lead the professional investigators to uncover more if they can.  Alone, these holes will force Christie back to the podium soon.

Unless, he resigns as Buono expects.  Barbara, you might be on to something.