While addressing the bribery allegations against him on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said it would “be much easier” for the Biden administration, the “political establishment,” and his “detractors” if he exited the Senate so that an “unjust deal on immigration” that would “hurt the Latino community” could pass or so “cozying up to the Castro regime could take place.” Here’s the quote in full:
“For the administration, the political establishment, and for my detractors, it would be much easier to have me exit the scene so that an unjust deal on immigration — that won't really solve our problems at the border but that would hurt the Latino community — would be easier to be achieved; or that a new deal with Iran would be more possible; or a cozying up to the Castro regime could take place; or selling F-16s to Turkey could be finalized — I get it. But I will not step aside and allow those things to happen in the name of political expediency.”
