CBS' John Dickerson Lets Christie Deflect Questions About Trump Pay-to-Play

When John Dickerson asked Chris Christie about the Trump Foundation's illegal campaign contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, it was expected that Christie would bluster, and bluster he did.

"I can’t believe, John, that anyone would insult Pam Bondi that way," he huffed. "She’s an outstanding attorney general who has been reelected by the people of Florida. She’s somebody who has been an outstanding law enforcement officer and continues to be."

Well, if Chris Christie says so. But there's no mistake about the fact that she asked for, and received, a $25,000 donation from the Trump Foundation, and subsequently dropped her investigation into Trump University. One might have expected John Dickerson to press on that point. Instead, he allowed Christie to prattle on about the imagined misdeeds of Hillary Clinton.

Lie #1: "But what I will tell you is, we now know that Bill Clinton has taken over $16 million of taxpayer money to help to fund the Clinton Foundation, a foundation that essentially was the person and the group that was screening who would get to see the Secretary of State." First of all, the second part is categorically and provably false. And secondly, that $16 million is just slightly less than George W. Bush has taken, because part of being an ex-President is the funding of IT services. Funny how he missed that.

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