Many Democratic officials were willing to hear Sen. Bob Menendez's side of the story. But after he spoke up, calls for his resignation grew.
After Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted on Friday, there was a brief pause among his Democratic colleagues. Yes, the New Jersey lawmaker was facing serious criminal allegations, and yes, the federal indictment raised the prospect of cartoonish corruption, but party officials, at least during the first few hours, were prepared to wait for his response.
“For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba,” he said. “These were moneys drawn from my personal savings account based on the income I have lawfully derived over those 30 years.”
A couple of hours after Welch called for Menendez to step down, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sat down with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki and added her voice to the growing chorus. In the meantime, the public continues to watch a case study in partisan asymmetry unfold in real time. To reiterate a point, after Donald Trump was indicted, the former president and his party launched a ridiculous broadside against federal law enforcement, peddling a series of outlandish claims.
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