Posted on 09/07/2017 9:10:56 PM PDT by Djl3668
The judge overseeing the bribery trial of Sen. Robert Menendez ripped into prosecutors Thursday for trying to focus on what he called tabloid details an unusual description for dry testimony about a series of emails about a hotel reservation.
U.S. District Judge William Walls stopped testimony for 20 minutes in which he tongue-lashed prosecutors for their painstaking recounting of emails used to book a luxury hotel in Paris for the New Jersey Democrat in 2010. The three-day hotel stay is a central part of the Justice Departments case.
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The Bergen Record today, one of NJ’s biggest papers, had an editorial stressing that Menendez is innocent until proven guilty. If he’s found not guilty,they said, he will be fully vindicated and he, Menendez!, should be put in charge of legislative changes to prevent future prosecutions of congressmen who accept extravagant gifts from those seeking political favors.
If he’s found guilty, it will be a victory for the dark forces of trumpism and racism and will mean the end of Obamacare and all things good and just.
Best of all, the editorial was written by Bob Torricelli, maybe the most corrupt Democratic senator in the history of NJ, with no mention of how he was forced to resign in disgrace to avoid prosecution for corruption.
That’s not considered relevant to NJ media, in their death throes.
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