• @[email protected]
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    489 months ago

    How about that, the Republican House “investigations” into Biden “corruption” are completely farcical and unproductive, and the DOJ is in the background finding real corruption and charging it.

    It’s almost like the civil servants in the US government are working productively and serving the interests of our country and the Republicans are doing nothing useful.

  • @SinningStromgald
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    239 months ago

    Good. Hope this time he does the right thing and resigns as senator

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    109 months ago

    A spokesman for Hana said, “We are still reviewing the charges but based upon our initial review, they have absolutely no merit.”

    Not the best wording to use when claiming you’re not corrupt. Generally you don’t need to review the specifics of corruption charges to know they don’t have merit if you’re not corrupt.

    • @[email protected]
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      549 months ago

      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.

      • @Fredselfish
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        119 months ago

        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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          59 months ago

          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.

          • @Fredselfish
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            Oh I know and I agree we need hold both parties accountable. Unlike Republicans we need to have standards. Were if he was a Republican his voters would praising him and call it a witch hunt. While us on the left are like "good he needs to go to jail and be kicked from office "

            But goddammit the highest court in our land justices who apparently can strip us of rights at a welm just because they want to and they allowed to continue doing same thing this senator is accused of.

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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.

    • @kbotc
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      149 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      139 months ago

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