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Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) guilty on all counts.

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Isaac Saul

Politics, Us House Of Representatives, Trump, News, Nonpartisan, Us Politics, Us Senate, Us News, News Commentary, International News, Local News, Congress, Independent, Biden, Election

4.7817 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Bob Menendez’s bribery verdict. On Tuesday, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was convicted on all counts of bribery, acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, obstruction of justice, extortion, and conspiring to commit those crimes. The verdict makes Menendez the first sitting U.S. senator to be found guilty of being an agent of a foreign government.


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From executive producer Isaac Saul,

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this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle

1:24.1

podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's

1:31.6

episode, we're going to be talking about Bob Menendez being convicted on all counts of bribery

1:37.6

and corruption, all sorts of juicy, disappointing, awful stuff. Before we jump into that,

1:44.0

though, I got to give a quick clarification.

1:45.9

Yesterday, in one of our quick hits, we said that California Governor Gavin Newsom, the Democrat,

1:51.0

signed a bill banning school districts from notifying parents if their child uses different

1:56.4

pronouns or identifies as a different gender than their school record. We linked to a Fox News article

2:02.2

about this story in our newsletter and referred to lots of reporting from other news outlets.

2:07.8

But it appears some of the early reports about this bill were actually misrepresenting the legislation.

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