“Sen. Bob Menendez convicted of all charges, including accepting bribes paid in cash, gold and a car,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The verdict is the culmination of a nine-week trial in which prosecutors also presented evidence showing the New Jersey Democrat “acting as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government … protect[ing] allies from criminal investigations … and helping that country access millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.”

Menendez, unsurprisingly, maintains his innocence, claims he has “never been anything but a patriot of my country and for my country.” He maintained it before, and it “worked”:

“Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin has begun airing a commercial that brings up six-year-old anonymous allegations that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) had sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, even though several women later said they were paid to lie about the senator.”

Well then, it’s settled. If we can’t believe promiscuous criminal girls who admit they lie for the highest bidder, who can we believe? I mean, it’s not like he had powerful connections, or an illicit fortune to work with…

Allegations of extramarital escapades dovetail with Menendez’s attornies blaming his wife, Nadine, for gold bars seized by FBI agents. The lawyers say, “the gold belonged to his wife, and she had kept him in the dark about financial troubles so grim that she nearly lost the home to foreclosure.”

She too has been charged, “but her trial was postponed so she could recover from breast cancer surgery.” Interestingly, while dating Menendez in 2018, she struck and killed a pedestrian with her Mercedes-Benz, but the police investigation cleared her and blamed the victim for “jaywalking.” Noting the Senator’s penchant for citizen disarmament, it seems fair to adapt an old Teddy Kennedy bumper sticker :

“Bob Menendez’s wife has killed more people than my gun.”

“Penchant” is too soft a term. The guy’s a fanatic about gun-grabbing. Considering the lame excuse that he hoarded money because his parents escaped from Cuba’s “¿Armas para que?” Communist tyranny, to see him try to impose that on the nation they fled to is especially offensive.

And impose he has. From his “Gun Violence Prevention” page, introducing a list of infringements he has sponsored that have prevented nothing but citizens being able to claim their birthrights:

“Bob has been a tireless advocate for common-sense gun violence prevention measures that save lives. From supporting the original Assault Weapons Ban in 1994 to authoring the Keep Americans Safe Act to ban high-capacity magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition and are designed for shooting en masse, and recently cosponsoring the Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act, a comprehensive bill that works to end the epidemic of gun violence in America, Bob continues to push for meaningful actions before another senseless tragedy tears families apart.”

So, there’s a bit of “hoist with his own petard” schadenfreude to note that, if his conviction is upheld against appeal and he ever gets out of prison, Menendez will be a “prohibited person,” forbidden by laws he supported to own a gun. Remember, this is the guy who said “Throw ‘em into prison for five years” if out-of-state concealed carry permit holders mistakenly entered New Jersey with a firearm.

And he’s hardly the first anti-gun (for you) Democrat now prohibited for life (unwilling to relinquish power, Menendez filed for reelection as an “independent” due to the criminal charges).

They’re too numerous to list here, but the first group that comes to mind are the Bloomberg mayor criminals for “gun control” who “were convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, assorted crimes that include embezzlement, perjury, bribery, extortion, fraud, money laundering, attempted child molestation and child pornography.” That was back in 2013, and more have been added.

Then there was gun-grabbing California Democrat  State Senator Leland Yee, who “plead guilty to racketeering charges in connection with allegations that he accepted bribes to engage in illegal gun running operations.” And Chicago Democrat Alderman Ed Burke, “an ardent supporter of gun control” who was “found guilty … of racketeering, bribery and attempted extortion.”

There are plenty more, but the point is made. Citizen disarmament has no more zealous supporters than corrupt, criminal Democrats.

Menendez is the latest, but he won’t be the last.

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About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.