Ted Cruz: Menendez' Pending Charges Are Obama's 'Political Weapon'

NewsMax ^ | March 7, 2015 | Todd Beamon

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz alleged Saturday that the Justice Department's pending criminal corruption charges against New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez may be retaliation by the Obama administration.

He told reporters at the Iowa Agricultural Summit in Des Moines that it was "awfully coincidental" that the charges would be soon forthcoming against Menendez, The Hill reports.

Menendez, 61, the leading Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, has long attacked Obama's international policy, including his plans to rebuild ties with Cuba and the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran.

He chaired the Senate panel before the Republicans won control of the upper chamber in the November elections.

"The announcement this week by the Justice Department that they were bringing charges against Bob Menendez — I will point out that the timing seems awfully coincidental that … in the very week that Bob Menendez showed incredible courage to speak out and call out President Obama for the damage that his policy is doing to our national security…

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read; RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH, WILLIAM SHIRER.
If as Rush postulates that BHO goes for that third term then you better buckle down

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He makes good points

[ronnie raygun]

Using the people power for thier own personel attack dog. Menendez is a crook just like the rest of them. A political commercial running during his election, he is down in the brothers hood claiming he lives nearby just up the street. Funny.