Woodward Bewildered by Bridgegate: Engineering Traffic Jam is ‘Unthinkable’

BridgeGate has earned comparisons to Watergate far beyond the usual -gate suffix, so it made sense to ask Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward for his take on the burgeoning scandal. That take: utter bewilderment.

“What’s this about?” Woodward said. “Unthinkable, at least to me, that some politician or some political group is engineering [a traffic jam] for political purposes…I just don’t get the idea that anyone would engineer a traffic jam. Fort Lee, New Jersey is in New Jersey, and here’s the governor’s office somehow saying, ‘Let’s penalize these people?'”

“I buy it,” Woodward said, when pressed as to whether he even believed the action occurred. “It’s lodged in people’s minds, because they’re saying, ‘This is a dirty trick off the charts.'”

Woodward added that evidence would eventually emerge of a smoking-gun meeting in which a group in the governor’s office plotted the traffic jam, and he hoped that meeting contained at least one person who thought it was maybe not a good idea.

Watch the full clip below, via Fox News:

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