WTH! Santos Expelled While Corrupt Menendez Remains

Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is still serving in the Senate, even though the evidence against him is overwhelming and a criminal conviction is likely in his future. The question is why? Why have Democrats stopped calling for Menendez to get the hell out of the Senate? Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Democrat Senator Bob Menendez is still serving in the Senate, even though the evidence against him is absolutely crazy overwhelming. And his criminal conviction is gonna be an absolute. This guy's gonna be convicted. The question is, why have the Democrats stopped calling for Menendez to get the hell out of the Senate? He's a frigging thug. He's a criminal. This is his second run down the road as being a criminal. The first time he wasn't acquitted. It was a hung jury. They simply couldn't decide. But he got away with that. And so the Senate is saying, well, you know, he's not such a bad guy. We outta wait till. Well, how does that, what's the comparison here? What's his name? The crazy.

Santos.

Santos.

Yeah. Look, Santos, although Santos did survive, I think three expulsion attempts before he was finally expelled. Maybe it was two. But once the report actually came out and it said, look, we have determined beyond a reasonable doubt, this man did this, this, this, this. Everybody in the House got together and said, all right, screw this. You're done. Menendez, the evidence and the things he is accused of are so much worse.

They're terrible.

Than what Santos did. The photographs, they've released the text messages, the evidence is available. I mean, I know.

Oh, you go online and see the gold bars, the money is stuffed down in his jacket lining.

And so look, again, all of this is alleged against him because nobody wants to get sued.

Oh, BS. It's not alleged. I'm not gonna, I'm saying he did it. I'll tell you what, if he wants to sue me, he did it. There's no question the guy did it.

But, look, I don't disagree with you. But we're looking at a situation here where these Democrats in the Senate are more concerned about power. They're more concerned about his maybe fundraising ability, his connections, than they are about actually doing the right thing here. And the right thing is to get him outta Congress. And so far the only consistent voice is Fetterman. Fetterman's the only one who still says get rid of him.

Absolutely. Has enough courage to say, what more do we need to know? Fetterman stands up and says, even the voices that you would expect to come out and say, Bernie Sanders, what a disappointment. I mean, you know.

Sheldon Whitehouse.

Sheldon Whitehouse, all these folks you're looking at and you're saying, really? You know better than this. And all it is is just another, well, what is their approval rate? 15%? Is it past 20% right now?

No, God, no.

I think it's 12 to 15% approval rate for the Senate. And people wonder why. Well, God, it's sitting right in front of you, man.

Well, look, I'm obviously super plugged into the online left community. We mocked Republicans relentlessly when they refused initially to call for Santos to get out. We all did videos on it. Where's everybody on this? You cannot have it both ways. You cannot pretend that Santos was evil and horrible and had to be removed and then say, well, let's let it play out for Menendez. You can't. You have to take off the blinders every now and then.

There's no difference, is there?

Right.

There's absolutely no.

Well, what he did was much worse.

Oh, yeah. Not only stealing millions. The foreign agent issue, the tax evasion issue, the theft. How do you end up with stacks of gold bars under your bed?

He abused the power of his office. Put the United States potentially in danger. I mean, that's how serious what this man did. He shouldn't be allowed to be near the Senate.

How about this, Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado. This is what he says. I'm not so sure there'll be any role for the Senate to play here. What's the role of the, or Ray Luján from New Mexico?