He’s a goldmine of hypocrisy.
Disgraced former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez is saying “Trump was proper” about political prosecutions within the wake of receiving an 11-year sentence in his corruption case — regardless of a historical past of calling the president a “Russian asset.”
“Gold Bar Bob,” 71, spoke to reporters exterior the federal courthouse in Decrease Manhattan — the place he begged for mercy from President Trump — who he beforehand voted to question twice.
“President Trump was proper,” Menendez declared Monday. “This course of is political and is corrupted to its core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.”
The pol — who was discovered responsible of buying and selling favors for international governments and businessmen in trade for money, gold bars and even a Mercedes-Benz convertible — then shortly ran away from the press gaggle, ignoring reporters who requested him to elucidate how this prosecution was political in nature.
This apparent pandering to the world’s strongest man is a far cry from Menendez’s therapy of Trump throughout his first time period.
Menendez, who bought out his workplace to representatives of the Egyptian authorities, claimed Trump was unethical for casting aspersions on authorized inquiries into alleged connections to the Russian authorities.
“I’m speaking in regards to the completely legit query of whether or not Donald Trump may very well be compromised by the Russian authorities,” Menendez — who was himself compromised by a international authorities — stated on the Senate ground in 2019, including, “It’s greater than a legit query.”
The embattled politician went on to criticize Trump for “discrediting” the then-active Mueller probe into the president’s alleged ties to the Russian authorities.
“In the meantime, the president and his cheerleaders on Fox Information proceed to discredit the Mueller probe as some sort of partisan witchhunt,” stated Menendez, happening to tout the convictions stemming from the probe as proof of its non-political motivations.
Now, Menendez is whistling a distinct — extra determined — tune within the hopes that Trump has a brief reminiscence.
The previous head of the Senate Overseas Relations Committee was convicted on 16 counts, together with bribery, extortion, appearing as an unlawful international agent on behalf of the Egyptian authorities, and obstructing justice.
Throughout a 2022 raid of Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs dwelling, federal investigators discovered 13 gold bars price $150,000 in a bed room secure, practically $500,000 in money all through the house, and cash-filled envelopes stuffed within the pockets of his official Senate jacket.
“Menendez, who swore an oath to characterize the USA and the State of New Jersey, as an alternative put his excessive workplace up on the market in trade for this hoard of bribes,” prosecutors wrote throughout final 12 months’s trial.
Menendez’s spouse Nadine was additionally charged as a part of the identical probe, however her case was delayed because of a breast most cancers analysis. Her trial is about for March.
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