Chris Christie's aide tries to spin his beach scandal in the most unbelievable way

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When caught in what many may perceive as a white lie, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s spokesperson had a simple strategy to explain perceived inconsistencies surrounding the governor’s revealed private trip to a closed public beach: call it on a technicality.

When confronted with photos showing that Mr Christie had lied to reporters about going to the beach – he had said he hadn't "had any sun" that day – a spokesperson brushed off the notion that his boss had done anything other than tell the straight and narrow truth to reporters.

“He did not get any sun. He had a baseball hat on,” Brian Murray, the spokesperson, clarified later.

Mr Christie was able to find an empty beach over the busy weekend leading up to the Fourth of July in part because his government had closed down state-owned beaches amid a crippling budget showdown.

The embattled governor, who will be leaving office at the end of his current term, was quickly criticised for soaking up some rays with his family whole the government struggled to pass a workable budget, and as would-be New Jersey beach goers were turned away from state lands.

Even Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, who is running to take over Mr Christie’s governorship, got in on the action.

“If I were governor, I sure wouldn’t be sitting on the beach if taxpayers didn’t have access to state beaches,” she said Monday.

Users of the internet also chimed in, theorising that Mr Christie, having already become the least liked governor in over 20 years, is simply throwing in the towel on the legacy of his governorship. Others simply mocked the outgoing New Jersey governor.