Democratic Senator Bob Menendez was hit with even more indictments for his corruption, but Democrats in the Senate don’t think it’s a good idea to kick him out of office. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Mike Papantonio: Democratic Senator Bob Menendez was hit with even more indictments for his corruption. But the Democrats in the Senate, well, they think it’s okay. We don’t allow having, it’s fine to have this freakish criminal sitting there denying that he’s a criminal when it’s overwhelming. Everybody who talks about it, it’s overwhelming. Finally, you got a couple of people that says, really? Let walk what we talk about. Let’s get rid of this guy like they did Santos. You know, Republicans got around to getting rid of him. This guy’s 10 times worse than Santos. Talk about it.
Farron Cousins: Yeah. This is, it’s almost laughable at this point because this is the third superseding indictment, meaning it’s in total, the fourth time he has been indicted on new things. Because every time they get a new witness to flip, what’s happening is that the prosecutors are uncovering even more information. So these latest rounds of indictments, what’s gone from conspiracy charges against Menendez and his wife has now grown into full-blown, you did it. So it’s not a conspiracy to commit the crime. They’re saying, you actually did do what we thought you were only trying to do. So it is so much worse.
Mike Papantonio: And this isn’t his first time. You understand he got away with this one time before, with a hung jury. The jury didn’t acquit. It was a hung jury and they didn’t re-prosecute. Exactly the same thing. Here we’ve got gold bars being hidden in his closet. We got money that is sewn into the lining of his jackets. She gets new cars. He’s got all of these perks that people are going, where the hell did all this come from? And finally, somebody starts asking questions and he’s a criminal. Bob Menendez is a repeat, repetitive criminal. That’s what he is. He’s incorrigible criminal. And he’s sitting in the Senate with the Democrats. He is a blue Democrat, and they’re saying, ah, this is okay. We’re just gonna let it play itself out. Well, they don’t let it play itself out with other folks, but with Menendez, they’re doing it. Why is that?
Farron Cousins: Well, Menendez has been a powerful fundraiser, but I think the biggest issue is that if we get rid of Menendez, uh-oh, we’re down to only that one, we have 51 senators right now, we’re down to 50. And, uh-oh, suddenly then if we can’t get Sinema and Manchin, we’re screwed.
Mike Papantonio: But don’t you say hell with that sometimes?
Farron Cousins: Oh, exactly.
Mike Papantonio: Don’t say, hell.
Farron Cousins: You have to put politics aside.
Mike Papantonio: We have a criminal sitting in our body. We know he is a criminal. He’s an incorrigible criminal because this is his second time doing this. And we’re just saying it’s okay.
Farron Cousins: Well, not to mention, okay, you kick him out of office. So what happens? The governor is gonna just appoint somebody else to the seat. You’re still gonna have the seat. Get rid of him. You know he is not going to make it through this trial at all.
Mike Papantonio: Trial May 6th. What an extravaganza for the Democrats. Can you imagine watching that public trial May 6th and hearing the story, and then people gonna scratch their head. Well, I don’t get it. Why did they let him sit there for an entire year while this was all going on? Why did they do that?
Farron Cousins: Well, and the funny thing is, if he goes through that trial and gets convicted, if he doesn’t voluntarily resign, they’ll still have to go through the process to expel him. And that’s gonna be humiliating because he’ll be in jail and they’ll still have to say, okay, well, I guess now we can get rid of him. It’s gonna be embarrassing if they don’t do it now.
Mike Papantonio: If they’re not already humiliated. I don’t know how you humiliate ’em anymore.
