Despite New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's previous denial that he had real-time knowledge of the politically-motivated traffic jams on the GWB, Bloomberg reports that, David Wildstein testified that Christie was told of events as they took place.

While Christie hasn't been charged and says he wasn't aware of the traffic issue until weeks after they happened, Bloomberg reports that on today's 3rd day of testimony:

David Wildstein, the self-professed mastermind of the George Washington Bridge scandal, testified that he and his boss bragged to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie about politically motivated traffic jams near the span as they took place. Wildstein, a former Christie appointee at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which operates the bridge, said at a trial that he and his former boss, Bill Baroni, spoke with the governor at the World Trade Center during a September 11 memorial service in 2013. David Wildstein is testifying against Christie's former deputy chief of staff and the governor's top appointee to the authority that operates the bridge. Wildstein told jurors he texted deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly with reports of heavy traffic on the second day of the jams. He says Kelly texted back, "Is it wrong that I'm smiling?" Wildstein testified they ignored Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich's pleas for help. The exchange came on the third morning of gridlock intended to punish Mark Sokolich, the mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, for failing to endorse Christie’s re-election.

Chris Christie will hold a press conference shortly (1130) to discuss a new drug recovery program but we suspect the questions will be a little different that he hoped...