Menendez Addresses Growing Calls To Resign After Corruption Charges | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was defiant amid growing calls for him to resign on Friday after he was indicted on multiple federal corruption charges.

    "Those who believe in justice believe in innocence until proven guilty," said Menendez. "I intend to continue to fight for the people of New Jersey with the same success I've had for the past five decades."


    "This is the same record of success these very same leaders have lauded all along," he continued. "It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere."

    Shortly after the charges were announced earlier in the day, Menendez suggested that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy.

    "For years, forces behind the scenes have repeatedly attempted to silence my voice and dig my political grave," said the 69-year-old senator. "Since this investigation was leaked nearly a year ago, there has been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources and innuendos to create an air of impropriety where none exists."

    "The excesses of these prosecutors is apparent. They have misrepresented the normal work of a Congressional office," he claimed. "Those behind this campaign simply cannot accept that a first-generation Latino American from humble beginnings could rise to be a U.S. Senator and serve with honor and distinction. Even worse, they see me as an obstacle in the way of their broader political goals."

    Menendez faces charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.

    The indictment says that Menendez and his wife had a corrupt relationship with New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, who allegedly gave the senator bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.

    "Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value," the indictment said. Federal authorities reportedly found gold bars and cash stuffed throughout the senator's home that they traced back to the businessmen Menendez allegedly worked with.

    "Over $480,000 in cash - much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe - was discovered in the home," the indictment said. Photos included in the indictment included pictures of gold bars and hundred dollars bills that had been stuffed in clothing.

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Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?

  Yes

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poll#169

Considering how abjectly corrupt and civilly abusive the Left has become regarding the corrosive effect of their elected leaders; their entrenched and ruling bureaucracy; employing their failed Education Industry as Indoctrinators; their collusive private sector operators, such as the terminally discredited Legacy Media and Big Tech censorship of Free Speech: What will be the best course forward for hardworking Middle Americans, including the Patriot Class?

  Withdraw from society, go underground and plan for a resurgence when it is feasible to do so.

  Work within the confines of better policy by the People's government, once good sense and sanity is restored in the electorate at large, to achieve such.

  Are you a crazy, nut-job Insurrectionist? Everything is perfect within our plan to achieve our intended goals for the Socialist Left.

  Secession to form a true Constitutional Republic.

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