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Backwoods Sleuth9/28/2016 6:20:12 am PDT

Christie said Tuesday that Holt was “out of bounds.”

“He was wrong on stop-and-frisk,” the governor said.

Christie correctly noted that Mayor Michael Bloomberg appealed the ruling, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the order, sending it back to a new judge to be tried again. But new Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would not pursue the appeal, but would instead to institute reforms.

“Lester Holt says its unconstitutional,” Christie said. “You’re an idiot.”

The governor, a former federal prosecutor, said the 2013 ruling did not deem stop-and-frisk to be unconstitutional across the country, only that Bloomberg’s administration “applied it unconstitutionally” in New York.

“Nobody tuned in to hear what Lester Holt had to say,” Christie added. “Nobody wants Lester Holt to be a fact-checker.”

good grief.