The New York Times digs into the ol' memory hole and finds that current Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie was an unbelievable asshole from the beginning of his career.
What are the odds?
In the ad, with his wife bottle-feeding their son on the couch beside him, Mr. Christie peered into the camera and reported, gravely, that there was an investigation underway into his opponents. He promised to be different.
There was one problem.
“These statements,” Mr. Christie wrote in the court-ordered public apology in 1996, “were not accurate.”
Yep, that's right. Just before his Republican primary election for county freeholder, Christie plastered the airwaves with an ad saying his opponents were "being investigated by the Morris County prosecutor." And it wasn't true—he fabricated it. Made it up. In the resulting defamation suit Christie was forced to write a public apology years later and place it in the local paper but Chris Christie won that election.
Christie would eventually go on to bigger and better things. Who knows why? It was clear even 20 years ago that the guy couldn't be trusted farther than you could throw him.