Menendez to Be Sentenced on Federal Corruption Charges
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Nailed it. How dare Biden stay out of the investigation, prosecution, and sentencing!
The problems with Menendez were to be fair not on Biden. It was on the senate leadership for not kicking his ass out of the senate as soon as possible. That guy stayed in his seat way too long. Especially when you consider he was taking money directly from foreign governments.
Everything you wrote in that post was an abject failure of logic and common sense.
I only recall two expulsion votes for Santos, not three. But I’ll take your word for it that there were three. That’s exactly three more than the number of expulsion votes the Senate held for Menendez. Santos became the first person expelled from the House prior to a criminal conviction since the Civil War. I apologize that it took three tries.
For what it’s worth, all three votes were held before his case even went to trial. And he was successfully expelled in the first vote that was held after the House Ethics Committee concluded their investigation.
105 Republicans voted to expel him. That’s nearly half. If your claim is that Republicans get no credit for his ouster because less than half voted for it then congratulations because you just blocked Democrats from ever again bragging about ousting Franken. Less than half of Democratic senators wanted him out.
The best part of this whole saga is that the Senate never did hold a vote on Menendez. Not even after a jury convicted him of 16 criminal counts, including acting as a foreign agent.
Sure, they ramped up their threats. “Resign or we are totally going to vote on it.” But they never even held a vote. It took five weeks after his conviction before he finally agreed to resign.
Again, there is no moral high road here. Dems shit the bed in this case. Take my advice and move on to Trump threads where you can actually score internet points.
