# NJ Senator Menendez indicted on multiple corruption charges {2023-09-22} - Convicted on all counts on July 16, 2024

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### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-senator-menendez-indicted-on-multiple-corruption-charges-2023-09-22-convicted-on-all-counts-on-july-16-2024/990544/128 "2023-10-12T19:30:26Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> The Republican public blames Democrats for their own corruption as a coping mechanism for continuing to elect Republicans of the same stripe.

Remind me again:

- which party’s president and presidential candidate had close relationships with authoritarian leaders such as the President of Russia and the leader of North Korea?
- which party’s President said that he preferred the word of the President of Russia over the US intelligence community on the question whether the Russian government had interfered in US elections?
- which party’s presidential candidate recently trashed the government of the US’s closest ally in the Middle East, and praised Hamas and Hizbollah?
- which party has a Senator who is blocking military promotions at the highest level, thereby impairing the operational efficiency of the United States military, and particularly during the hottest Middle East crisis in years?
- which party has a senator opposed to any aid for Ukraine, thereby favouring Russia’s territorial ambitions against the US’s NATO allies in eastern Europe?
- which party controls the House of Representatives, whose members oppose any aid to Ukraine, ditto?

Sure looks like a pattern of favouring outside interests over those of the US.

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