Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) this week mounted an sudden protection of Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat just lately indicted on intensive bribery prices.
Menendez faces allegations that he accepted varied bribes, together with $480,000 in money and $100,000 in gold bars, in return for improperly utilizing his affect to profit and enrich a number of New Jersey businessmen.
Though a lot of Menendez’s Democratic colleagues have advised he resign, no Republican senators have known as on him to step down, according to Business Insider.
The truth is, on Tuesday, Cotton implored Menendez to stay in workplace.
In two posts on X, previously often known as Twitter, Cotton mentioned that whereas the costs in opposition to Menendez “are severe and troubling,” he feels Menendez “must be judged by jurors and New Jersey’s voters, not by Democratic politicians who now view him as inconvenient to their maintain on energy.”
On one hand, it’d seem as if Cotton is reminding his followers that Menendez, like all Individuals, is presumed harmless till confirmed responsible.
However many individuals had different interpretations of Cotton’s posts (which can or might not have been ghostwritten).
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) additionally defended Menendez’s “presumption of innocence,” saying “I don’t think he should resign” and lamenting that “the media has to cease appearing like everyone is responsible earlier than they’re even judged by a jury.”
Once more, the particular person talking right here is George Santos.
