There’s a real scandal going on in Washington that has nothing to do with Russia or racism.
Democrat Senator Bob Menendez (NJ) is on trial for corruption.
Menendez and a Florida donor of his are both on trial facing multiple fraud, conspiracy, and bribery charges.
Prosecutors say Menendez received hundreds of thousands of dollars for his political campaign and legal defense fund and that his donor funded expensive trips for him in exchange for help with business disputes.
Their most serious charge carries a maximum 20-year sentence.
Menendez is trying to use his position as a Senator to alter the trial schedule.
In their reply to his motion, government prosecutors wrote:
“This case is not about the Affordable Care Act, the debt ceiling, or the balance of power in the Senate. The political consequences of defendant Menendez’s trial or criminal conviction should not be considered in the courtroom. This Court has consistently recognized that defendant Menendez is not entitled to special treatment because of his status. It should maintain that principle here.”
Liberal blogs like Salon and Talking Points Memo realize the national significance of Menendez’ possible conviction.
TPM wrote:
The nightmare scenario for Democrats is Menendez is found guilty and relinquishes his seat before Gov. Chris Christie (R) completes his term in January, allowing Christie to appoint Menendez’s replacement and handing Republicans a crucial extra vote in the Senate. That appointee could also run for reelection in 2018, giving the GOP an outside chance in Democratic-leaning New Jersey.
If Menendez is convicted in a swift trial and Christie appoints the replacement, ObamaCare repeal may be back on the table.
It only failed by one vote thanks to corrupt John McCain’s vote.
Will the media start talking about a REAL case of corruption?
Or will they continue to ignore it because it involves a high-ranking Democrat Senator?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Grady Judd for president!! 2024
What’s up with Obama’s pardoning a murderer who killed his wife the day he was released
AND BY THE WAY..YOU BETTER NOT HAVE THAT JUDGE DISROBED..HE IS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT AND HE WONT HAVE ANYTHING ON UNDER THAT ROBE..
LOIS,ONE SHERIFF THAT WAS TRYING TO PROTECT HIS CITIZENS FROM CRIMINAL ALIENS GETS PARDONED..YOUR OBAMA PARDONS HUNDREDS OF KNOWN CRIMINALS,ONE THAT WENT HOME AND SHOT HIS WIFE DEAD THAT VERY SAME DAY AND U SAY NOTHING..YOU SHOULD PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ARZ AND TAKE A LOOK AROUND..LIBERAL SCUM
LAST I HEARD BEFORE THE COMMUNIST PRESS COVERED IT UP. THREE UNDERAGE GIRLS SAID DIRTY MENENDEZ DID NASTY THINGS. THEN TWO RECANTED AND ONE DISSAPPEARED.TYPICAL DEMOCRAT COMMUNIST ROLE MODEL.
Consider this…..Maybe not all of the “commies” became democrats in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. There are scum bags everywhere. McCain anyone????
Is there any way we can get Terry McCauliffe, Hillary Clinton, Chucky Schumer and wacky Pelosi to join him? What a nice treat.
What’s up with Clinton and Obama pardons of some of the slimiest pieces of crap including drug dealers and murders. I’ll take a pardon of Sheriff Joe, a true American patriot, over the pardons executed by filthy and corrupt Clinton and Obama.
When are the Republicans going to wise up ? Now is the time to go for the Democratic jugular and they are balking at every opportunity. The opportunity for justice and for removal of the swamp creatures will only be there as long as the Republicans do what the American people voted them into office to do. The next elections will tell us who is honest, and who the American people trust. I warn the Republicans, do your job or get the hell out of our way. Eventually the draining of the swamp will be complete, with or without your help. This will all be made public and only the true patriots will survive.
McCain literally stole the title as Republican! He was held prisoner in Vietnam, but his behavior when he was discharged wasn’t good. His wife had to divorce him and he remarried a young lady quite a bit younger with a lot of money. He couldn’t run for office in his home state so he invaded Arizona with his hero status and was elected for t two year term as Representative, then with his newly found riches ran for Senator. He almost immediately found a best friend in Teddy Kennedy whom forever after instructed him on what to do. The mystery is “who votes for him?” I know the illegals are all for him, the mayor of Phoenix is for him. Somehow he’s stood for election six times and people still vote for him. I don’t! He’s what you could call a real honest to goodness RINO!
Well, we have Menedez on trial now. He should have been convicted long ago. We’ll see whether an honest verdict can be obtained, then maybe we’ll start on a few others like Pelosi and Reid!
Do you mean Obama or the Judge? Arpio’s a hero!
Oh Kurt, you wouldn’t be insinuating that the Democrats are equal criminals with the invaders are you? Good laugh!
No, Tom it is you yourself whom is following a slanted enforcement of the law. Arpio was enforcing the law as written and approved! The judge made up his own law, which was not a legal law. It was not passed by any legislative body or even a president or governor. Judges aren’t there to make new law unless it is illegal, which law Arpio worked under was NOT illegal! Non citizens are not American Citizens and are criminals just by their presence here without proper permission! Our schools are going broke because of their presence. Our Hospitals are having to close bankrupt by illegals demanding treatment and never paying for!
The Sheriff wasn’t dirty, the judge was and is! The judge wanted him to disobey the written law in favor of his verbal, omnipotent say so! The judge should be disrobed immediately! It is not his duty to make new law, which is what he judged Arpio on!
As I’ have said for the longest, All DumboCrappers are criminals, from insider trading, bribery from lobbyists, Pedo gate Pizza gate Russias gate (Uranium) the murder of Seth Rich Money laundering thru the Clinton Mafia Foundation and slush found, plenty of voters fraud they are all crooked and they are finished as a party
As I’ have said for the longest, All DumboCrappers are criminals, from insider trading, bribery from lobbyists, Pedo gate Pizza gate Russias gate (Uranium) the murder of Seth Rich Money laundering thru the Clinton Mafia Foundation and slush found, plenty of voters fraud they are all crooked and they are finished as a party
Just a start!
Real sad fact, it is only one senator! Big disappointment!!! If they all were made to take lie detector tests, they would all be electrocuted with a massive short circuit!!!!
This man should be euthanized immediately.
All you have to do is to follow Billy sucky dicky down to Lima Peru where there is plenty of Ass to get…I saw him down there while visiting with a good friend of mine..we laughed and looked at one another…ah we know why he is here…
Well as the swamp turns….
The prosecutors might want to think about charging all the other Democrat senators since they are all guilty as hell of every imaginable crime you can name! Would love to see Chuck Todd bring this up Sunday morning ! The media is probably hiding under the defendants table in the court room.
WHAT????? A DEMON crap guilty of anything? That’s not possible is it??? LOL.
In 1954 president Esinhour signed a bill into law outlawing the communist party, so the communist’s had no choice but to infilterate the unions, the school system,even churches and the democrat party so the democrat is no longer the democrat party but the communist party with the democrat name. and the use the communist ideology of telling a lie and keep repeating it till the people beleive it and also accuse the opposition what you yourself is doing.
He was enforcing the laws governing entry to the US illegally. The worthless Obama refused to enforce the laws and took it out on Joe. Why don’t we bring Obama and Hillory to justice.
When ever is a democrat convicted of anything. There have been numerous crooks and varmin in the Democratic Party. Just look at the list today . Pelosi, Clinton, Lynch , Rice, Podesta, Debbie watermark Schultz, OBAMA , hundreds more. Nothing happens to them but let’s have a witch hunt on Trump with zero evidence in 12 months . Mueller is a dem hack and his prosecution team a Dems , one a lawyer for the Clinton foundation. Rosenberg is a dem. The republicans are letting the Dems run the senate and congressional hearings with no push back on muellers, Rosenbergs conflict of interests. They should step down or be fired. I blame the Goo for being complicent in bringing Trump down. I forgot Comey. He turned over government info to the press. Like I said Dems will never pay for their crimes and the MSM will never report it. They are not journalists. They are partisan hacks . They are fake news and the American people are finally waking up to the Fascist democratic establishment. The swamp extends beyond the federal government.
The Washington elites including Senator John McCain and the Liberals forget the thousands criminals that were “pardons” from jail time by Obama before he left Office. Here is a sheriff that got penalized for going after the 10 million illegals who were breaking the law. When you break the law, you should go to jail and/or get deported.
Apparently, your lack of current news and slanted opinions are the fruit of your idiocy! Kindly keep your idiotic thinking inside that empty head of yours
No such luck, slime always oozes through the cracks.
He wasn’t dirty, he was doing his job!!!
Lois Please don’t reproduce !! Your parents failed !!!
THERE WAS A JUNKET MENENDEZ WENT ON WITH SOME PERVS DOWN TO SOUTH AMERICA AND PARTIED WITH UNDERAGE GIRLS. THREE CAME FORWARD AND ACUSED HIM. THE COMMUNIST PRESS COVERED IT UP. LAST I HEARD ONE GIRL DISSAPPEARED AND THE OTHER TWO WITHDREW THE ALLEGAIONS. WHEN YOU LOOK UP DEMOCRAT SCUMBAG IN THE DICTIONARY HIS PICTURE IS THERE.
What’s up with Trump paRdon with the dirty sherrif ??
Can’t stand that McCain, he has his nose in everything. He also hurt the country by refusing to “vote down” 0dumba-care. What a dirtbag!
All that is required for EVIL to triumph is for good men and women to say and do nothing.
Bingo! Grandma D nailed it! Scripture consistently warns us all of the haughty and proud as they drag others into their perversions. The Democrat Party IS NOT the one we older folks remember of our parents. Communist infected folks run rampant in that party now. May God have mercy on us all if we fail to protect our kids and grandkids from such as these!
The Veterans Affairs Department’s system for verifying whether a veteran is alive or dead contributes to costly or embarrassing errors, including compensation being paid to veterans who have passed away and records indicating they had visited doctors after they died, according to an internal VA report. The report, a review of the VA’s death eligibility system, found that the department’s medical records system lists as active patients 2.7 million veterans who are, in fact, dead. Reason – unionized “work force”. And – of course – the politically correct leadership. And the chairman of the Senate VA committee is that low-IQ bloviating gasbag McCain.
Time for lady justice to act! This guy deserves a speedy trail and so does the American people who have waited far too long for criminal indictments of political snakes to face justice!
This Court has consistently recognized that defendant Menendez is not entitled to special treatment because of his status. It should maintain that principle here.”
That same principle should apply to Hillary&Bill,Obama,Lynch and Soros to name a few!!
Why are there still ANY unindicted liberals still plying their trade in the corrupt halls of of government edifices? Surely by now the world’s SECOND oldest profession should have been brought to the justice it so richly deserves!
You are right on target with that statement, Radman!
How and when did the Democrat Party stray.so far from the Constitution? Often times I wonder if any of them has ever bothered to read it and how they can so gibly take an oath to it knowing all the time it is totally meaningless to them.
I don’t have to wonder why it’s so easy for them to lie, cheat and steal — that’s easy — they have thrown God out of the equation! Well, maybe I just answered my first paragraph… hmmmmm.
Demorats everywhere are going down!! The corrupt Odummy/Clinton era is over! Now we need to finish exterminating the vermin left over.
If Menendez had been a Republican, this would be the “new” Russia-Trump Collusion fabrication story that would receive over 90% of the MSM news coverage right up to his incarceration; and then the leftist sycophant talking heads would postulate about how many OTHER Republicans must have been involved in the fraud, conspiracy and bribery, too. It’s just sickening that journalistic integrity in the MSM has gone the way of the Dodo bird…IT’S EXTINCT!!!
The democrats are the dead party and they brought it on themselves. To bad this one has a minority name if it was Clinton he’d have skated by now. Somehow greed control and power is loved by all the swamp dwellers in DC We the People have not counted in the swamp for a long time. Take a hard look at the Senate really sad performers. Arizona’s pair what a twosome.Why would someone 80 years old want to go back? To many IOU’S left on his plate and the other one has really earned his last name. Regards Twilight’s Last Gleaming