Three days after Bob Menendez was revealed to have taken massive bribes—including over $500,000 in cash and gold bars—to use his Senate seat to benefit foreign businessmen, Senate Democrats still refuse to call for him to step down.
While Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin say they don’t know enough of the facts yet, imperiled Democrats like Jon Tester, Joe Manchin, Sherrod Brown, and Bob Casey have been totally silent on the stunning accusations.
“You’d think it would be a no-brainer to say someone who took gold bars from foreign businessmen to rig US foreign policy is unfit to serve in the Senate, but apparently Senate Democrats disagree. Democrats have made clear they will tolerate Bob Menendez’s comical levels of corruption as long as he continues to back their extreme agenda.” – NRSC Spokesman Philip Letsou