The conspiracy that isn’t: Bob Menendez and others hit with indictments offer no proof of politicized prosecutions

It’s perfectly acceptable for politicians facing transgression charges to state their innocence and contention their indictments, but claiming without immoderate grounds that the process is politicized undermines justice. The immense bulk of cases brought by national prosecutors are not against politicians and the immense bulk of politicians are ne'er changed.

Facing the justice for his sentencing successful Manhattan national court, Bob (Gold Bullion) Menendez whined that helium was atrocious and helium learned his lessons and delight don’t fastener maine up for a agelong time. After the justice gave him 11 years, Menendez walked extracurricular and said with a overmuch antithetic tone: “But fto maine conscionable accidental this full process has been thing but a governmental witch hunt, by the Justice Department’s National Security Division and prosecutors who are much funny successful governmental scalps.”

The erstwhile U.S. legislator from New Jersey continued: “President Trump is right. This process is governmental and has been corrupted to the core. I anticipation President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores integrity to the system.” He besides hopes that President Trump grants him clemency, either a commutation oregon a afloat pardon.

If Menendez’s words dependable familiar, they are, echoing what the president has said for years astir “witch hunts” implicit the galore cases brought against him, successful national and authorities courts, some transgression and civil.

When Joe Biden wrongly pardoned his convicted lad Hunter, helium said: “I besides judge earthy authorities has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,” adjacent though Hunter was recovered blameworthy by a jury.

And that led Mayor Adams, who is facing his ain acceptable of national charges, to say: “President Biden stated his Justice Department has been politicized. President Trump stated that. I stated that. No American should beryllium going done what I’m going through.”

Adams claims it was his (fully justified) complaints of the Biden White House for its nonaccomplishment to assistance the metropolis with the hundreds of thousands of migrants who came present that caused his indictment past September.

The facts accidental different arsenic Manhattan national prosecutors started looking astatine Adams successful 2021, earlier helium became politician and earlier the migrants started arriving.

No 1 wants to beryllium caught up successful a transgression prosecution, from the blameworthy similar Menendez to the pardoned similar Hunter Biden to those whose cases were dropped similar Trump oregon inactive pending similar Adams, but prosecutors are required to travel the grounds and the law. And national judges with beingness tenure oversee everything.

Trump and Menendez outcry “witch hunt” without immoderate proof. And “witch hunt” doesn’t explicate however Menendez came into possession of the golden bullion. The assemblage decided it was a bribe and the justice agreed. Are they besides portion of the “witch hunt” Bob?

Menendez whitethorn win successful obtaining a Get Out of Jail Free paper from Trump, but that doesn’t found that the prosecution was successful immoderate mode unfair oregon unjust. But what it would do, too spare Menendez his deserved punishment, is erode the public’s assurance that justness is unsighted and that “equal justness nether the law” truly means what it says. Which is simply a batch much important than the result of 1 politician’s case.