Fox News host Harris Faulkner and her guest — former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer — suggested on Thursday that a “hot mic” moment involving former Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) may not have been entirely accidental.
Both Faulkner and Fleischer appeared to be in agreement that a veteran politico like Christie — who has served both in elected office and as a political commentator — was not likely to be caught unaware by a live microphone.
“First of all, if you care about your political party and you’ve been in politics as long as Chris Christie, do you really not know that mic is not hot?” Faulkner asked, according to a report from Mediaite. “I mean, I don’t know. I guess we’ll never know. I refuse to believe that until he tells that publicly. And what he said was explosive against those other two candidates.”
“Yeah, I mean it really shows that…