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I’m sure this isn’t politically motivated, the republicans would never do that

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Nah, Menendez is actually corrupt, this isn’t the first time he’s been in trouble for this. New Jersey politicians in particular seem to be just shamelessly corrupt, regardless of party affiliation.

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Glad this happening but isn’t Clarence Thomas guilty of the same thing? When do wr go after him. When does the DOJ charge him.

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It’s important to remember there are checks and balances in the government. So we’ll go after him when his checks stop cashing and his balance goes negative.

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You will definitely never see me defend Clarence Thomas, I just needed to point out that this isn’t a partisan thing in this one specific instance. Democrats are frequently bad politicians too, it’s just not a solid requirement like it is for the GOP.

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I mean the fact that something is being done about a corrupt politician is almost certainly due to him being a Democrat, but the issue isn’t that he’s being charged, it’s that the corrupt Republicans aren’t.

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It’s coming out of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. (So, part of the Biden DoJ). I don’t think the Republicans have much to do with this.

This is his second corruption charge in a decade. Probably time to clean house in New Jersey.

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in DC…

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12 points

No, this is legit, dudes kinda notoriously shady. Stopped clocks are right twice a day.

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Republican’s control the DoJ?

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His only mistake was taking foreign money from unapproved foreign country.

KSA or UAE do the same and nobody ever gets punished or any domestic slave master.

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