New Jersey has one of the largest and most ruthless student loan programs in the country, described by one bankruptcy lawyer as “state-sanctioned loan-sharking.” The state is less strict about collecting on debts, however, when it comes to bankrupt casinos owned by celebrity real estate developers.

A redacted transcript of a damning set of text messages between former staffers working for Governor Chris Christie was unsealed on Wednesday. In one exchange, from December 13, 2013, the pair discuss a press conference the governor was giving about the still-developing George Washington Bridge lane closing scandal. “Are you listening?” Christina Renna, who worked in part of the governor’s office focused on his re-election campaign, wrote. “He just flat out lied about senior staff and [campaign manager Bill] Stepien not being involved.”

As if life wasn’t hard enough for Chris Christie, adult errand boy for the Trump campaign reduced to begging for a VP spot he was never even in the running for, the Cruz campaign has joined in on the fun.

On Tuesday, Chris Christie took the RNC stage to conduct a witch trial in absentia of Hillary Clinton, which, like all fair and just tribunals, involved one party making their case and a crowd of thousands chanting for blood.

Chris Christie, a glutton for punishment, among other things, has come to Melania Trump’s defense by helpfully pointing out that something like “93 percent” of her speech wasn’t plagiarized.

A tragic detail stands out from the New York Times’ recap of the comedy of errors that led to Donald Trump confirming Mike Pence as his running mate—big baby Chris Christie begging Trump to reconsider like he ever had a chance in the first place.

Here is a theory: Jared Kushner blocked Chris Christie from becoming Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee as revenge for his father.

Late Wednesday night, The New York Times published a tentative schedule for speakers at next week’s Republican National Convention that included former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, UFC President Dana White, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, Donald Trump’s wife Melania and all of his adult children.

According to Bloomberg, Donald Trump doesn’t plan to announce his vice presidential pick until Friday, but the presumptive Republican nominee strongly hinted that both Jason Bourne and John Wick are in the running on Tuesday, telling The Wall Street Journal he’s looking for a “fighter skilled in hand-to-hand combat.”

For months, nobody seemed to know the whereabouts of a particular cell phone used by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to text with an aide regarding Bridgegate hearings in late 2013. Strangely enough, his lawyer had it the whole time.

In the months after Bridgegate, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said he and his office knew nothing about the fallout from the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge that engulfed the bi-state Port Authority in scandal. As it turns out, this was not entirely true.

For two-and-a-half years, New Jersey governor Chris Christie has maintained that he provided federal investigators looking into the 2013 George Washington lane closures with complete access to both his personal and government email accounts. According to WNYC, however, new court filings show that this was not actually the case, supporting earlier allegations from two defendants indicted in the scheme that Christie’s lawyers destroyed and withheld evidence.

After a recent, wholly believable revelation in The New Yorker that described Chris Christie as Donald Trump’s “manservant,” Governor Christie’s office has vehemently denied the allegations. Sure, buddy—whatever you say.

Lawyers representing the defendants accused of shutting down a bridge as part of an elaborate revenge scheme say Chris Christie—Donald Trump’s unpaid intern and the technical governor of New Jersey—destroyed evidence, including a cell phone, text messages and emails, that connected him to the crime.

Of all the 5,500 words in The New Yorker’s recent exploration into the GOP’s struggle to accept Donald Trump, two sentences stand out as particularly devastating. Specifically, the sentences in which we learn the true depths of Chris Christie’s new living hell as an unpaid McDonald’s delivery intern for Mr. Donald Trump.

After humiliating his new friend in every other possible way, Donald Trump finally got around to making fun of Chris Christie’s weight on Thursday at an event held in the New Jersey governor’s honor.

The release of a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the 2013 Bridgegate scandal has been delayed again, this time after a ruling from a federal appeals court that happens to include Donald Trump’s sister.

Prosecutors were set to release Friday a list of people suspected but not charged in 2013's Bridgegate conspiracy until a federal judge granted a temporary reprieve after a lawyer for one of those included on the list argued that her client would be permanently branded with a “badge of infamy.”