Wed Sep 27, 2023 – 10:05 am EDTWed Sep 27, 2023 – 10:22 am EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Senate Democrats continue to call for their colleague Senator Bob Menendez to resign and not seek re-election in 2024.
The leftist New Jersey Democrat senator faces federal charges for allegedly taking gold bars and a luxury vehicle as a bribe from the government of Egypt. Sen. Menendez chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His wife also took a no-show job as part of her bribery.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) stated the senator “agreed to take a series of official acts and breaches of his official duty” in exchange for bribes, according to the September 22 announcement.
The allegations led New Jersey’s junior senator, Cory Booker, to call for Menendez to resign. He referenced that Menendez previously faced, but beat, federal corruption charges in 2015.
Sen. Booker praised his colleague’s “his extraordinary work and boundless work ethic” but stated “the faith and trust of New Jerseyans as well as those he must work with in order to be effective have been shaken to the core.”
“Stepping down is not an admission of guilt but an acknowledgment that
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