Why Isn’t The Media Calling For This Lawmaker’s Head?

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez appeared in a Manhattan court Monday and pleaded “not guilty” to an additional charge of acting as a foreign agent.

If you haven’t been following the news, In September, Menendez and his wife, Nadine, were indicted on federal bribery charges. The couple is accused of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in bribes in exchange for using the senator’s “power and influence” to help three businessmen.

Menendez was also charged with conspiring with his wife and an Egypt-born businessman to secretly work on Cairo’s behalf between 2018 and 2022.

Members of Congress are barred from acting as agents of a foreign government.

The FBI found nearly half a million dollars in cash during a search in the home of Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and his wife.

They also found gold bars worth more than $100,000 and envelopes of cash in Menendez's jacket pockets. pic.twitter.com/SfRvvllUmv

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 22, 2023

If Menendez was a Republican, the Democrats would have been screaming bloody murder and calling for his resignation.

If you think I’m exaggerating, look at what happened to New York Congressman George Santos, who lied on his resume and has been facing calls to resign even before he was sworn in.

A week after Menendez’s indictment, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters that he was “deeply disappointed” and “disturbed” when he read the indictment.

From The New York Post:

FBI agents who raided the Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs home in June 2022 found wads of cash stuffed inside windbreaker jackets emblazoned with the senator’s name, more than $150,000 worth of gold bars, and a 2019 Mercedes C-Class that the couple allegedly bought with a down payment received as a bribe.

Menendez has vehemently denied the allegations against him — claiming that he stockpiled large sums of cash out of a habit inherited from his Cuban ancestors — and has refused to resign from the Senate.

“Piling new charge upon new charge does not make the allegations true,” he said in a statement issued after the new indictment was announced on Oct. 12.

Menendez – who stepped aside from his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month – has faced growing calls to resign from his senate post.

The senator has yet to provide an explanation for why the fingerprints of one of the alleged bribers’ drivers were allegedly found on an envelope stuffed with money inside his home, or why he googled “kilo of gold price” shortly after receiving an alleged bribe in gold bars.

Among the most alarming charges that Menendez is facing is that he allegedly secretly pushed his colleagues to unfreeze $300 million in military aid earmarked for Egypt while helming his powerful committee.

The bottom line is that I do believe you are innocent until proven guilty, but at what point does common sense kick in? The next time the Democrats virtue signal about a Republican, just point them to this guy.