John Fetterman Expresses Disgust With Senate Colleagues for Letting ‘Sleazeball’ Menendez Stay Amid Foreign Bribery Scandal
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is continuing to call on Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to leave the upper chamber of Congress amid his foreign bribery scandal and is fed up with his colleagues for not doing the same.
In remarks made to Manu Raju that aired on CNN’s Inside Politics Monday, Fetterman said that it was “clear that my colleagues want to keep him [Menendez] around.”
“And now we have his trial in less than two months and that’s going to handle it,” he observed.
“What does it say about this institution that he’s still serving in here?” asked Raju.
“I don’t know what it says other than that they’re just okay with having a sleazeball in the Senate,” replied Fetterman.
In an ensuing panel discussion on Inside Politics, Raju reminded the audience that Menendez was still receiving classified briefings and wondered aloud why Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hasn’t called on him to resign.
“Well traditionally, members who are indicted, criminal charges, they, in the House particularly, they lose committee assignments — he hasn’t lost those here — but they can remain members. And of course, Menendez went through this before and he ended up being acquitted. He got his job back, he got his post back on Foreign Relations,” noted Punchbowl News’ John Bresnahan.
“Much different case,” interjected Raju.
“A much different case but he rolled right — allegedly, if you’re the government, the Justice Department — he rolled right from that into this current corruption scheme. Now, like Schumer got beat up over this last week, reporters were pressing him. He’s not only on Foreign Relations, he’s on a national security task force, which is kind of, you know, why is he doing this?” responded Bresnahan. “So I mean, look, he has the right to go in front of a jury and present his case, you know. But there is pressure to have him resign, but leadership is never going to do, they’re never going to — Schumer is never going to do it.”
Watch above via CNN.
