Why Menendez? Why Now?
The Menendez story has disappared from the headlines after only a day, for reasons that may be related to what I talked about in yesterdays's post -- his case is a little too similar to Joe's, and maybe even related to it, something the Justice Department maybe should have reflected on before they made the indictment public. Just about the only insightful take from anyone during the story's brief moment in the news cycle was from Jesse Watters Friday night, when he asked, "Why now?" So the question is, why was the Biden administration taking down Menendez at all, and why now? Because the FBI raided Menendez's house last year. Menendez has been walking around Washington knowing Biden's agents have the stack of his gold bars ready to drop at any minute. God, Biden must have been squeezing Bob. The photo at the top of this post shows Menendez and his trophy wife Nadine in May 2022, just before the FBI searched his house for the cash and gold bars, whi...