It’s gotta be bad when Chuck You Schumer is forced to admit someone from his miserable band of miscreants and malcontents is under a cloud of damning evidence.
If you missed the story, Governor ‘Gold Bars’ Menendez is in trouble again. The charges he was facing before have just been augmented. One of the senators holding that narrow Democrat balance of power is facing corruption charges that should have a direct bearing on his ability to cast a vote.
The newest superseding indictment — up to 18 counts from four — added new charges for the senator, his wife, Hana and Daibes including conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice and alleged that Menendez was working to benefit Qatar in addition to Egypt.
The new indictment alleges that Menendez and Arslanian had tried to return some “but not all” of the money Uribe paid to get the Mercedes-Benz convertible that was given to Arslanian as part of the scheme.
Menendez and Arslanian allegedly characterized the return of the bribe money as repayment on a loan, including a $12,000 check with a memo line that read “personal loan,” the new indictment says. — NorthJersey
A reporter asked Schumer about it.
Q: Should Sen. Menendez resign?
SCHUMER: “I’m very disappointed”
Q: “Why are you OK with him serving in your caucus, sitting on committees, attending classified briefings when he’s been charged with bribery, conspiracy, and obstruction…”
SCHUMER: “I’m deeply disappointed”
It’s a little rich to say you are defending democracy from the ‘existential threat’ they claim that Trump presents to America when every vote for their policy is made possible by a Senator from New Jersey who is charged with *checks notes* obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice while working as an undeclared agen for a foreign government.
Menendez is complaining about the ‘overzealous’ prosecution. He might do better just to be glad he isn’t won’t be having any of the Founding Fathers as judge or jury. Taking bribes from a foreign government while serving as a senator? They might have demanded a consequence that required rope instead of a cell.
But Menendez isn’t the only Senator proving to be an embarrassment to Chuck Schumer. Senator Whitehouse is in the news.
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a crusader for new ethics guidelines at the Supreme Court, was himself hit with an ethics complaint last month after backing two dozen pieces of legislation that have benefited his wife’s environmental consulting company.
The conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch asked the Senate Ethics Committee to “immediately investigate” Whitehouse (D-RI), alleging there was “strong evidence” he “violated ethics conflicts of interest rules,” according to a copy of the Feb. 21 complaint exclusively obtained by The Post.
“Senator Whitehouse seems to have stepped over the line of standard environmental legislative advocacy and used his Senate office to advance his and his wife’s personal and financial interests,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
The complaint further urged Ethics panel chairman Chris Coons (D-Del.) and ranking member James Lankford (R-Okla.) to subpoena relevant parties should an investigation be launched. — NYPost
Credit where it’s due, Fetterman was one of the voices calling out his own party for letting Menendez sit in sensitive meetings and participate in voting after Congress had just kicked George Santos out of Congress for far less.
Sen. John Fetterman told CNN he plans to try to force a vote this week to prevent indicted Sen. Bob Menendez from receiving classified briefings if that isn’t dealt with internally as the two men trade barbs over the bribery and fraud charges facing the New Jersey Democrat.
“He’s a schoolyard bully,” Menendez told CNN’s Manu Raju.
“And I call him ‘about to be a felon,’” Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, shot back in an interview with CNN that aired Sunday. “I’m picking on him? No, it’s like, I’m just asking you to resign. And you need to resign.” — CNN
If Schumer really wanted him gone, he would come up with some sort of a creative way to get rid of him. He hasn’t even drummed him out of caucus or stripped him of committee assignments.
Why? The reason should be obvious. Menendez is a guaranteed vote, and Schumer cares more about pushing his agenda forward than he does about decency.
As for all of Chuck’s ‘defending democracy’ schtick? Nothing more than your run-of-the-mill political con job.
It takes the hard head of a partisan to be willfully blind to facts that would be obvious to even a child.
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