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 Meet Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and current nobody at Newark Liberty International Airport. 
 
 The two-term Republican, who left office on Jan. 16, was blocked from a VIP entrance he had used for eight years, and directed to stand in Transportation Security Administration screening lines at Terminal B like anyone else, according to a person familiar with the incident. 
 
 The order came from police for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport, according to the person, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about security matters. The Port Authority also operates the George Washington Bridge, the target of a plot by Christie aides and allies to tie up traffic for political punishment in 2013. 
 
 Christie, and the state trooper who accompanied him for his security detail, complied with the instructions, the person said. 
 
 The former governor used the entrance, reserved for some airport employees and flyers who need extra security, for his two terms. He spent more than half of 2015 out of New Jersey traveling and campaigning for his failed White House bid. 
 
 New Jersey ex-governors are allowed one state trooper to accompany them, at their request, for six months, according to Lieutenant Ted Schafer, a state police spokesman. Two former governors in addition to Christie have used the service, Schafer said. State police declined to comment on the airport incident. 
 
 The airport incident was reported earlier by WCBS News. 

 NEWARK (CBSNewYork) – Being governor is so yesterday. 
 
 Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie learned the hard way that his special treatment is over. 
 
 Christie tried to circumvent a TSA checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal C Thursday morning. Christie was with his State Police detail and attempted to enter through a special access area, located near the exit of the restricted area of the terminal. 
 
 The Port Authority says one of its officers refused to let Christie pass, telling the former governor that he is no longer allowed to use that access. 
 
 The officer escorted Christie to the regular entrance. 
 
 Christie cooperated as instructed. 
 
 New Jersey governors have the option to have a trooper protect them for six months. Two previous governors and Christie have opted to exercise that option. 
 
 Thursday night, Christie posted on Twitter, calling the story “pure fiction.” 
 
 Absolutely false story about my travel today. NJSP security detail & I were led to one entrance in the airport by PAPD officer. TSA informed PAPD and NJSP that this was the wrong way to enter and directed us to another entrance where I was screened & admitted to the airport(1/2) — Governor Christie (@GovChristie) January 18, 2018 
 
 “Absolutely false story about my travel today,” he said. “NJSP security detail & I were led to one entrance in the airport by PAPD officer. TSA informed PAPD and NJSP that this was the wrong way to enter and directed us to another entrance where I was screened & admitted to the airport.” 
 
 Neither option was the way I entered airport as Governor(wrong in the story) and PAPD officer never denied me entry at either place (also wrong in story). He was a gentleman assisting my security detail. When he got the right info he took me to the right place. Pure fiction.(2/2) — Governor Christie (@GovChristie) January 18, 2018 
 
 “Neither option was the way I entered airport as Governor (wrong in the story) and PAPD officer never denied me entry at either place (also wrong in story),” he continued. “He was a gentleman assisting my security detail. When he got the right info he took me to the right place. Pure fiction.” 
 
 Despite the governor’s denial, a Port Authority spokesperson specifically told CBS2 the following shortly before 10:30 a.m. Thursday: 
 
 “Port Authority says Christie showed up at Newark Airport today with NJ State PD detail. They tried to go into the special access area where they have been going for years. A PA cop told him he was no longer allowed to use that access and they escorted him to the regular area.”
– Chris Christie has lost one of the perks he enjoyed as New Jersey governor, and sources tell Bloomberg that he found out the hard way. Christie, who left office on Tuesday, tried to use a VIP entrance at Newark Liberty International Airport with his state police detail Thursday morning and was told to use the same TSA screening line as everybody else, the sources say. CBS New York reports that the order came from Port Authority police, who escorted Christie to the standard entrance. The former governor is entitled to a state police detail for six months after leaving office. Christie disputes the story, saying a Port Authority officer led him to one entrance and then took him to another one after the TSA told him he had gone to the wrong place, NJ.com reports.