Kelly says she used 'poor choice of words' in infamous Bridgegate emails

NEWARK—In terse and often testy questioning, prosecutors Tuesday challenged Bridget Anne Kelly's explanations for the incriminating emails that pulled her into the 2013 lane closure scandal at the George Washington Bridge.

By turns defiant and at times near tears, Kelly insisted that the e-mails and text messages were at times a "totally poor choice of words," but were written quickly as banter amid what she thought was a legitimate traffic study at the bridge.

She also contradicted the testimony of several prosecution witnesses, including Matt Mowers, a former staffer under Kelly, who now works for Donald Trump.

Kelly said she called Mowers a month before the lane closures to ask whether the mayor of Fort Lee was going to endorse Gov. Chris Christie for re-election. He said he told her there was no chance, and said she replied that was all she needed to know.

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