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https://news.antiwar.com/2022/08/04/sen-menendez-calls-for-major-overhaul-of-us-policy-toward-taiwan/

Sen. Menendez Calls for Major Overhaul of US Policy Toward Taiwan
A bill Menendez introduced would designate Taiwan a 'major non-NATO ally' and require sanctions if China invades
by Dave DeCamp Posted onAugust 4, 2022CategoriesNewsTagsChina, Taiwan
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for a major increase in US support for Taiwan that would overhaul US policy toward the island.

Menendez said that the US can’t make the same “mistake” with Taiwan that it did with Ukraine. He argued that the US didn’t support Kyiv enough to prevent a Russian invasion, even though it’s clear that US meddling in Ukraine was one of President Vladimir Putin’s main motivations for launching the invasion. ...

Menendez and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) recently introduced the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022, which would designate Taiwan as a “major non-NATO ally,” authorize $4.5 billion in military aid for the island over four years, and require economic sanctions in response to a Chinese attack.

Menendez said the legislation “would be the most comprehensive restructuring of US policy toward Taiwan since the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979.” The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was set to review the bill on Wednesday, but the review has been delayed.

While Menendez said the legislation is necessary for deterrence, it would only make war in the region more likely. Chinese officials have warned that US support for Taiwan’s “independence forces” would lead to war, and they would view the bill as a major shift away from the one-China policy.

Comments:

pal_2002 • 18 hours ago • edited
Who is more senile than Pelosi and Biden? Menendez is really gunning for that title. A clear lesson from Ukraine is the utter failure of U.S. foreign policy as American provocations and crossing Russia's red lines led directly to war. Menendez literally learned the opposite lesson and wants to lead us into a more devastating war over Taiwan when changing nothing would've kept peace.

I just read his bio, another 40 years veteran monster of the political swamp. I expected as much.

Donna Volatile pal_2002 • 11 hours ago
Swamps are lovely things, if you are the creature from the black lagoon...

vlp1730 • 6 hours ago
F&ck Menendez.

Rightstermeister • 6 hours ago
He's one of the biggest Deep State warmongers in Congress, and he wouldn't be in the position he holds, if he wasn't.

Existential Dread • 7 hours ago
He needs to be retired.

Ted Christian • 8 hours ago • edited
Menendez and Graham are owned by the neocons. They need 1) China provoked, 2) Taiwan invaded, 3) a US conventional military response, 4) a number of US ships sunk, including nuclear carriers, and 5) a limited US nuclear response, following which Israel will 6) nuke Bushehr and the rest of the Iranian nuclear program. They're at 1, if they can get to 2 the rest should go like clockwork, assuming it doesn't escalate out of control, which is an acceptable risk.

Oh great, an acceptable risk of nuclear war.

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2022/senator-robert-menendez-under-investigation-again

Senator Robert Menendez is under investigation again
Updated Oct 26, 2022

Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J. faces a new federal investigation, according to two people familiar with the inquiry.

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have contacted people connected to Menendez in recent weeks, the sources said. They have sent at least one subpoena in the case, according to a person connected to the inquiry. ...

Menendez and a Florida eye doctor, Salomon Melgen, were indicted in 2015 for an alleged arrangement under which the doctor provided flights on a private jet and lavish vacations in exchange for the senator’s help with government contracts and other public favors. Menendez’s lawyers argued that the two men were simply good friends. The inquiry ended in a mistrial in 2017 after the jury failed to reach a verdict. (Melgen was convicted in 2017 of medicare fraud, and received clemency from President Donald Trump in 2021.) ...

The two people familiar with the investigation, one who is directly connected to the investigation and the other a New Jersey lawyer who has been told of the case, said that the broad outlines of the new inquiry are similar to the 2017 case. Both said that the new investigation involves an entirely different group of people, however.

https://slaynews.com/news/wife-democrat-senator-under-federal-investigation/

https://slaynews.com/news/dem-senator-caught-with-hands-in-cookie-jar-read-bob-menendezs-full-indictment/

Democrat Caught with Hands in Cookie Jar: Read Sen Bob Menendez’s Full Indictment

Corrupt Democrat Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been indicted again by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Sen. Menendez had previously escaped from an earlier bribery case due to a mistrial.

However, this time authorities caught the Democrat lawmaker with cash and gold bars hidden in his house and in safety deposit boxes.

As Slay News reported earlier, Menendez and his wife have just been indicted on multiple bribery charges.

Why is the DOJ going after a Democrat now?

Are they using Menendez as a token prosecution to help cover for their treasonously criminal protection of the Biden Crime Family?

Patrick says

Are they using Menendez as a token prosecution to help cover for their treasonously criminal protection of the Biden Crime Family?

He didn't pay his vig to the Biden Actor Irish Jesuit Mafia.

Menendez has always been a corrupt asshole, this is nothing new.

Patrick says

Are they using Menendez as a token prosecution to help cover for their treasonously criminal protection of the Biden Crime Family?

Yup.

Something about Egypt, like any corruption from there is 1/10000th that of CHYna

Or rather CCP ordered him
prosecuted for his position on Taiwan.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/27/democrats-ignored-bob-menendezs-corruption-until-he-was-no-longer-useful/

Democrats Ignored Bob Menendez’s Corruption Until He Was No Longer Useful

He's still useful for distracting from the DOJ's refusal to prosecute the Biden Crime Family!

https://slaynews.com/news/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-charged-acting-foreign-agent/

Democrat Sen Bob Menendez Charged with Acting as Foreign Agent

Just another distraction from the FAILURE to prosecute the foreign agent in the White House.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/adventures-monday-october-16-2023

Keep your eye on Egypt. For months, Egypt has been in a tense standoff with U.S. intelligence agencies. Egypt angered the deep state when it applied to join Russia’s alternative currency network, BRICS. Right after that, suddenly, unexpectedly, and utterly coincidentally, Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was turbo-indicted for treason, for accepting bribes from Egypt, and now faces a speedy May 6th trial date (5). Menendez’s political career is finished. In other words, Egypt’s decades-old, Senate-level political tool in the U.S. government was scuttled.

But as ever, the fickle worm of politics has turned again. Now the Biden Administration needs Egypt’s help, to accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza. Yesterday, U.S. Proxy Liar Anthony Blinken went to Cairo begging for help (6). Blinken is totally outmatched. Egyptian President Abdel something-something el-Sisi bargained harder than a Turkish rug merchant. Expect Menendez’s bribery charges to vanish like the morning dew, as quickly and unexpectedly as they appeared, and/or keep an eye on the satellite monitors for an official Egyptian bribe so big it’s visible from space.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crooked-trio-friday-november-3-2023

In another surprising democrat prosecution also featuring bribery, corruption, and muslim foreign nations, diminutive Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was recently federally indicted as an illegal secret foreign agent working for the Egyptians. Menendez gave up his Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship, obviously, but he’s holding on to several committee seats and even attended classified briefings on the Middle East war this week.

So yesterday, vaccine-injured slow talker John Fetterman (D-Pa.) filed a sensible Senate proposal to sanction any senator indicted for specific security-related offenses like mishandling classified information, being charged as a foreign agent, or compromising national security. The Fetterman resolution would strip any senator facing those specific charges of all their committee assignments, their access to classified briefings and information, their power to request earmarks, and their power to use government funds for international travel.

Obviously, Fetterman is squarely aiming at fellow democrat Menendez. When reporters asked, Fetterman cited the fact that Senator Menendez — accused of being a secret Egyptian agent — was attending classified briefings on the Israel situation. “It's astonishing to me how anyone would be okay with that," Fetterman explained, in what might be the first thing he’s ever said that I agreed with.

The whole thing is astonishing. I was astonished Fetterman filed anything that made sense to anyone.

Predictably, a vexed but feisty Menendez reacted by essentially telling reporters that Fetterman should mind his own beeswax. But Fetterman has amped the rhetoric, calling in halting sentences for Menendez to resign from the Senate. Politico thinks the quite rational Fetterman proposal is a long-shot.

It’s so strange that Fetterman — and not any of the Senate Republicans — filed the proposal.

Obviously, Republicans should support Fetterman’s proposal. I understand there’s potential for abuse, but as we have heard over and over in the Trump classified documents prosecution, national security trumps everything else, no one is above the law, et cetera and so forth.

Again, this is very strange. Democrats have made a point of ignoring Democrat corruption, like the overwhelmingly obvious Biden Crime Family bribery scheme which the FBI is somehow too busy to notice.

So why are certain Democrats actually having to deal with the law now? It is an attempt to recover some air of legitimacy after burning it to the ground?

Patrick says

So why are certain Democrats actually having to deal with the law now? It is an attempt to recover some air of legitimacy after burning it to the ground?

Yes, because of the blatant contrast of ignoring obvious Biden crimes while inventing crimes against Trump. To look balanced, the Dem go after Mendez and Adams, two Dems who are out of favor and when removed will certainly be replaced by other Dems.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/gold-bars-found-in-sen-bob-menendezs-home-linked-to-2013-robbery-report/

Four of the gold bars Sen. Bob Menendez stashed at his home were previously stolen from the businessman accused of bribing the New Jersey Democrat, according to a report.

The serial numbers on some of the gold found by the FBI during a June 2022 raid on Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs, NJ, home match identifiers that Fred Daibes reported to police after a 2013 armed robbery, according to NBC News.

Robbers made off with $500,000 in cash and 22 gold bars from Daibes’ Edgewater, NJ, home during the 2013 heist, the outlet reports.

Police later nabbed four suspects and recovered the stolen gold.

The matching serial numbers indicate that authorities have directly linked at least some of the gold found in Menendez’s home to Daibes, a New Jersey real estate developer and Menendez fundraiser.

Daibes has been accused of bribing the senator for a series of favors, including help in disrupting a federal prosecution against him.

“Each gold bar has its own serial number,” Daibes told investigators in 2014 when questioned about the stolen gold. “They’re all stamped … you’ll never see two stamped the same way.”

Daibes also signed “property release forms” to get the gold back, which certified that the stolen goods belonged to him, according to the outlet.

Menendez, 69, was hit with federal corruption charges in September related to an alleged years-long bribery scheme.

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged Menendez and his wife, Nadine, 56, with three conspiracy counts in connection with what prosecutors call a “corrupt bribery agreement” that benefited the couple, three New Jersey businessmen — Daibes, Wael Hana and Jose Uribe — and the government of Egypt.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/rogue-manholes-wednesday-january

More trouble for democrats. ABC News ran a difficult story yesterday headlined, “Sen. Bob Menendez facing even more allegations in new superseding indictment.” The Democrat Senator, already under indictment for bribery involving Egyptians, got some more bad news yesterday when his indictment was expanded to add sordid new allegations about Bob’s ‘relationship’ with Qatar.

Bob Menendez was popular in the Middle East. The expanded indictment alleges salacious details about Bob’s friendship with some Qatari agents who texted him offering gifts like luxury watches (worth up to $24K) and Grand Prix tickets. "How about one of these?”, a Qatari agent texted Menendez, along with photos of gem-encrusted high-end watches.

It was like his own personal shopping channel.

The Qatari agents also texted Bob about official Senate activities, nothing particular, just things like a Senate Resolution supporting Qatar. So, all in all, the new allegations don’t look too good. Quid pro quo, Bob.

Bob’s trial is set for May 6th. Defiantly, Bob says he’s not resigning, and they can’t make him. That’s exactly what Claudine Gay said for a while, too.

Patrick says

Bob’s trial is set for May 6th. Defiantly, Bob says he’s not resigning, and they can’t make him. That’s exactly what Claudine Gay said for a while, too.

Bob Menendez did not offend powerful Jews. In fact, Bobby has been anti-Iran (against the Iran nuke deal) and pro Israel (voted for the law punishing those who boycott Israel). He will be fine, just like the last time. Maybe they just want to warn him about being too friendly with Egypt and Qatar.

https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/sen-bob-menendezs-mile-high-sex-lover-saw-hidden-cash/

Disgraced pol Bob Menendez showed cash-stuffed safe to married lover who posed nude for him — 15 years before FBI gold bars raid: dossier

Patrick says

So why are certain Democrats actually having to deal with the law now?

Haha. Have we all forgotten about George Santos (R)?

They are ALL corrupt. If treason was actually prosecuted, more than 1/2 of Congress would be in prison, more like 99%. We go to war for ISRAEL all the fucking time.

They are all criminals.

Doesn't matter. They will be "elected" and despite having no way or possibility to validate the vote, the cattle will accept it bleating that we live in the best dumbocrazy in the world.

https://slaynews.com/news/gold-bar-bob-menendez-not-seek-re-election/

‘Gold Bar Bob’ Menendez Will Not Seek Re-Election to Senate

Embattled New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez will not run for re-election in November, although he still refuses to hand in his resignation, The Post has learned.

“He will not be running,” a source close to the 70-year-old three-term senator told The Post.

If the Post’s reporting is accurate, then this really is not that big of a surprise.

The senator – and his wife, Nadine Menendez – have run into serious trouble with the law.

Fox News reports, “The couple are being investigated over allegations that they accepted bribes of gold bars, cash, and a luxury car from three favor-seeking New Jersey businessmen.”

Menendez was arrested last fall, and he and his wife have now been charged with 18 crimes.

LOL at idiots who get bribed in gold because of better-than-cash anonimity and untraceability of it and then keep it in the fucking serial-numbered bars they were bribed with.