In his unfolding corruption case, Sen. Bob Menendez asks for no particular favors.
He merely asks to be handled like Hunter Biden.
The “embattled” senior senator from New Jersey has already received an earlier photograph end with a jury, in Newark. He was tried by a jury of his Democrat friends, considered one of whom requested in courtroom, “What is a senator?”
The new indictment runs 39 pages. Naturally state-run media is giving it a superb leaving alone as a result of… skilled courtesy.
However, regardless of what some deplorables are claiming, there are nice variations between the Biden and Menendez instances.
Of course, Menendez is, or was till final week, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Joe Biden was once chairman of that very same committee, which is seemingly a golden goose in relation to, uh, no matter.
But past that, there isn’t any connection between the Biden and Menendez scandals.
For instance, Menendez is accused of shaking down Egypt. The Bidens, alternatively, are accused of taking payoffs from sinister international nationals in Ukraine, Russia, China, Romania and Kazakhstan.
Biden threatened to cease $1 billion in assist to Ukraine. Menendez didn’t cease Egypt from getting $2.5 billion in international assist, however then had his spouse ship the Arabs a newspaper story in regards to the grant he’d facilitated:
“Bob had to sign off on this.”
Menendez is accused of accepting bribes within the type of gold bullion. Hunter Biden took diamonds.
When the massive bucks began flowing, Mrs. Menendez arrange an organization as a result of “every time I’m a middle person for a deal I am asking to get paid and this is my consulting company.”
Hunter turned an “artist.”
Mrs. Menendez bought a brand-new Mercedes Benz C-300 convertible value $60,000. Hunter Biden grabbed a brand-new Fisker Karma EV sports activities automobile value $142,000.
After the supply of the brand new automobile, the oligarch who purchased Hunter’s automobile bought to have dinner with Hunter and Dementia Joe in Georgetown.
The convicted felon who purchased Mrs. Menendez her automobile had his celebratory automobile dinner with the Menendez’ in Manhattan – and took {a photograph} whereas toasting each other with champagne.
So you possibly can see, these two Democrat corruption tales have completely nothing in widespread.
At the standard I-am-not-a-crook press convention Monday, Menendez stated he all the time saved a bit money round the home ($486,461 to be actual) due to the historical past of “confiscation” of his household’s funds in Cuba underneath Communism.
For the report, Menendez was born in New York City in 1954 – 5 years earlier than Fidel Castro took energy.
So what although? Joe Biden has claimed he was raised in “the Puerto Rican community” in Delaware, regardless that there have been fewer than 2,000 of them residing in his state when he was a boy within the 1940’s.
The Bidens had been a bit slicker. For one factor, in comparison with the Bidens’ mind-boggling tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars}, Menendez was a piker. According to the indictment, Menendez had a lot much less understanding of how a lot he was getting paid off.
After being handed some gold bullion in October 2019, Menendez googled:
“How much is one kilo of gold worth?”
In January 2022, Menendez once more went onto Google to seek for “kilo of gold price.”
Is Menendez beginning to have the identical form of late-life reminiscence issues as Brandon?
(For the report, the indictment says {that a} kilo of gold is value about $60,000.)
The Bidens and Menendezes each consorted with dodgy individuals. Biden “served” with a killer (Ted Kennedy) and a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan (Robert Byrd), amongst different reprobates.
Menendez’ codefendants embody Jose Uribe who was “previously convicted of fraud and had his insurance broker’s license revoked.”
Another of their indicted friends was a Democrat fundraiser named Fred Daibes, who in 2018 was accused by the feds of “obtaining loans under false pretenses” from his personal financial institution.
Both households preserve their pals shut – very, very shut. Hunter had a sister-in-law who was additionally his girlfriend. Another of the Menendez codefendants is an Egyptian named Will Hana who was “friends for many years” with the senator’s codefendant spouse Nadine, in line with the US legal professional.
The two “friends” exchanged “thousands of text messages.” At one level, when Nadine’s home was being foreclosed upon, her “friend” paid $23,000 to get it out of arrears.
That’s a superb buddy, I’d say. Which most likely explains why the previous Nadine Arslanian was so indignant after her new husband the senator “ghost wrote” a letter to get one other $300 million in assist for Egypt, after which her previous “friend” refused to pay the invoice.
Nadine wrote to her new husband about her previous “friend” the Egyptian:
“I have been so upset all morning. Will left for Egypt yesterday supposedly and now think he’s king of the world and has both countries wrapped around his pinky. I really hope they replace him.”
Hell hath no fury like a lady scorned.
Like Hunter, Nadine turned annoyed together with her past-due accounts receivable. It is the everlasting lament of the bagman.
Hunter advised his daughter that when she graduated into the household shakedown enterprise, he would by no means require her to chill 50 % of the shakedowns like “Pop” had achieved to him.
Nadine, nevertheless, simply whines about being stiffed on the payoffs to her husband: “I am soooooo upset.”
Nadine, be taught one thing from Hunter. Don’t complain, clarify – what’ll occur to the deadbeats in the event that they don’t pay up. When considered one of his Chinese marks was overdue in 2017, Hunter despatched him a WhatsApp message that started:
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.”
Within days, the Red Chinese had wired $5.1 million to Hunter’s “firm.”
The one benefit Mr. and Mrs. Menendez have over the Bidens? They have spousal privilege – Bob and Nadine can’t testify towards each other.
If I had been Menendez’ lawyer, I’d solely counsel him to do one factor earlier than he seems in courtroom right this moment.
Change his final title to Biden. It works each time.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”