Convicted former Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., took to X on Friday to accuse his party of weaponizing justice and unfairly ousting him from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in order to advance its political goals.
Menendez, 71, resigned from the Senate in 2024 after being sentenced on Jan. 29 to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes and favors from Egyptian and Qatari government-connected figures.
That was not Menendez’s first political scandal, however.
In 2015, he stepped down from his Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship when unrelated corruption and bribery charges were filed against him by the Department of Justice.
Now, Menendez is saying he was unfairly targeted by his own party when he lost his committee post.
