Is that All it will Take for Trump to Pardon Menendez?
After he was sentenced to 11 years in prison, Bob Menendez had this to say:
"Welcome to the Southern District of New York, the Wild West of political prosecutions. President Trump is right: This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.”
This sounds like satire - a man convicted of receiving thousands of dollars and gold bars as bribes and being a foreign agent to boot - complaining about corruption.
But it's not satire.
Menendez is letting everyone know that he knows the best way to get to Donald Trump - by saying he's right. Maybe that's all it will take for Menendez to be pardoned by Trump.
The president is legendary for overreacting to what people say about him - good or bad.
Criticize Trump, and as we see, you can lose your security coverage even if your life has been threatened.
But praise him and good things happen.
Of course, it still may be a long shot for Trump to pardon Menendez, but the former senator at least is going about this the right way.
It is true that Menendez did vote twice to convict Trump after he was impeached. But now Menendez and Trump are on the same page railing against a corrupt judicial system.
That strategy certainly figures to make more of an impression on the president than the story Menendez' lawyers told in court, that being he was a man who "came from nothing" and ended up as a United States senator.
Menendez actually came from Union City in Hudson County, which to some, may constitute as "nothing."
During this saga, I have heard at least two broadcast reports mention that Menendez came from Cuba and or "Castro."
That is not the case. Menendez was born in the United States, as his parents immigrated here years before Castro.
Of more importance, many politicians have modest - even low income - backgrounds, but they don't become criminals.
Trump is unlikely to understand a modest upbringing, but he would understand a man complaining about a politicized justice department.
Whether that understanding evolves into a pardon for Menendez is the question.
It is worth wondering what Republicans in New Jersey, where Trump, of course, has a golf course and a residence, are going to do.
Will they do nothing?
Or will they reach out to the White House and tell the president - "No pardon, please?"
Just think for a minute the harm a Menendez pardon would do to the Republican brand in New Jersey.
Ron Del Buono, what was Picard's great line? 'Make it so".
Ron Del Buono, what was Picard's great line? 'Make it so".
https://www.nj.gov/csc/about/meetings/minutes/decisions/2023pdf/02-22-23/B-004%2002-22-23%20ED.pdf
@Thomas Jefferson, or whomever you are, you are the worst kind of liar; the kind that remorselessly lies about points everyone knows that you're lying about. This country, for a short time, will need to experience the falsehoods your ilk propagate. However, the truth, just like your maleficent manner, will come to light, and those of your kind WILL be held to account.
@Thomas Jefferson, or whomever you are, you are the worst kind of liar; the kind that remorselessly lies about points everyone knows that you're lying about. This country, for a short time, will need to experience the falsehoods your ilk propagate. However, the truth, just like your maleficent manner, will come to light, and those of your kind WILL be held to account.
Middlesex is the worse family court system in the state people have had cases in there 9 years! The system should be revamped and Judges should be sued. If they were held accountable for their actions more fair hearings would be adjudicated. Laws are the bonds that hold our civilization together, but it tears and breaks people apart. Parents use the kids to alienate and destroy each other. It's no wonder the marriage rate is down 65%.
I graduated High School with him. We were both delegates to the Washington Workshops Congressional Seminar in 1971. We shared a Limo to our Sr Prom. But that's where it ends. I started the Petition for the Union City Board of Education and was the first candidate to file NOT BOB! I was originally courted by Musto and promised the world. I turned him down without a thought. Now Karma has gotten to Bob!
I meant Harris received more votes from Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, and the youth vote, than did Trump in 2024
“Thomas Jefferson “ I sincerely hope our state attorney general becomes aware in short order of this comment you made on January 31st at 9:10 a.m. In your last sentence ( pun intended?) you more than suggest that men should resort to violence against judges, lawyers, mental health workers, as well as destruction of court houses. You are also a pathetic liar. Biden received LARGER amounts of Black, Hispanic. Asian, Women, and the young vote than did Trump in 2024. You choose not to see through your own hatred.
Stephen L. forgets that Trump got the largest amounts of black, Hispanic, Asian, women and young voters in history. As for Menendez saying that the court system is a cesspool, all one has to do is look at the family courts in New York, New Jersey, and around the nation. They are a cesspool of parasites and false accusers, both litigants and lawyers. Family courts are the armpit of the judiciary. What happened to Menendez, the "railroading" and lawfare, is what happens to every man that enters the family courts. He gets no due process or equal protection under the laws, has lawfare used against him to line the bar association lawyers' pockets to the tune of billions of dollars annually, he loses all of his assets, income, children and careers. Sometimes men lose their lives due to the PTSD they suffer at the hands of ignorant and prejudicial family court judges and lawyers. It's time to fix the family courts in the U.S. before men decide they've had enough and start taking out judges, lawyers, mental health "experts" who take their children from them, and taking out courthouses in one felled swoop.
I do not believe that crooked politicians should receive a pardon.They lived the high life with a good salary and still stole from the people they swore to serve. Do the crime, do the time.
Compliment and enable through willful blindness the danger this orange man poses to democracy and the well being of those marginalized due to his obviously twisted "Americans" (read: "white anglo") first "world view"...gosh were in so much trouble and the "enablers" don't realize their next, the moment it hits them...too late (sad face, sigh)