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September 25, 2023

Who would believe that the man legislatively in charge of shaping the foreign policy of the most powerful nation on the planet is a dirt-bag political prostitute from New Jersey willing to sell his country’s interests and his own honor for cash, cars, and Egyptian gold bars?

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Well, for one, the U.S. Justice Department, whose indictment of Robert Menendez boldly proclaims:

Robert Menendez Allegedly Agreed to Use His Official Position to Benefit Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, Fred Daibes, and the Government of Egypt in Exchange for Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Bribes to Menendez and His Wife Nadine Menendez, Which Included Gold Bars, Cash, and a Luxury Convertible  

The man who, as a consequence of that indictment, just “temporarily” resigned his chairmanship of the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee has been a U.S. senator for 17 years, and, for many of those years, he seems to have been patently taking brazen bribes to betray his oath of office and sell his honor — unless, that is, corruptly enriching himself by selling his senatorial power is part of “well and faithfully discharging the duties of the office” upon which the citizens of New Jersey have serially, and unwisely, “entered” him.  

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Robert Menendez is one of a mere 100 men making law in the upper legislative house of the most important nation on Earth.  As such, he’s one of the 100 most important men on Earth.  And yet he appears to be above the very laws he makes.  Until now, perhaps.

This isn’t Menendez’s first Justice Department rodeo.  Federal prosecutors indicted him way back in 2015 for taking $1 million or so worth of bribes from an apparently über-retinologist in Florida for which, as the Justice Department then boldly proclaimed:

Senator Robert Menendez and Saloman Melgen Indicted for Conspiracy, Bribery, and Honest Services Fraud

That indictment charged Menendez with, among other things, using his Senate power to help the Florida retinologist loot a federal agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which provides health care benefits to over 100 million needy Americans.  A subsequent jury deadlocked on the senator but convicted the retinologist on 67 criminal counts of Medicare fraud.  The retinologist went to federal prison for 17 years.  (Curiously, President Trump pardoned him.)  The senator went back to the Senate, where he sat for the next eight years, until now.

The senator’s story, as his senatorial propaganda proclaims, is a “quintessential American” one:

[Bob Menendez] grew up the son of Cuban immigrants in a tenement building in Union City and has risen to become one of 100 United States Senators. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 118th Congress. He has earned a national reputation for his international leadership in the Senate, which pairs with his long-time reputation as a fighter for New Jersey families who puts their health care, economic security and education ahead of powerful special interests.