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Defiant Bob Menendez tears up over resignation as he faces possible prison term: ‘My legacy is one of breaking down barriers’
NY Post ^ | 08/25/2024 | Ryan King

Posted on 08/26/2024 6:57:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Convicted felon and former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez fought back tears while describing his legacy as one of “breaking down barriers,” denying that it entailed breaking laws as well.

Despite his 16-count conviction last month for trading the power of his office for lucrative bribes, an emotional Menendez claimed he will leave behind a “good legacy.”

“My legacy is one of breaking down barriers,” Menendez told Spanish-American language broadcaster Noticias Univision, per a translation.

“A legacy is planting seeds to create a tree where you won’t sit under it. That’s a legacy. And in that sense, we have sown and planted so many seeds, which I know is a good legacy.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barriers; menendez; prison; resignation
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To: rovenstinez

His legacy is that he will always be known as:

GOLD BAR BOB MENENDEZ


21 posted on 08/26/2024 7:19:57 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He did an excellent job of breaking barriers that have been preventing him from being in prison.


22 posted on 08/26/2024 7:21:17 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Barriers between people with money and himself....


23 posted on 08/26/2024 7:23:35 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: suasponte137
Why can't these egotistical criminals simply say, "I made a mistake and I am willing to pay the price for these shortcomings."

I believe my Father told me something like that when I was a small boy.

24 posted on 08/26/2024 7:27:48 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Bob couldn’t help himself. Despite having dodged jail time from his Dominican Republic underage hooker bomb, he continued his life of crime.

Little side note, Bob’s father committed suicide rather than pay off gambling debts.

Dont do it Bob.

25 posted on 08/26/2024 7:29:00 AM PDT by OldHarbor (strained statutory arguments, appeals to inconsistent history, reliance on out-of-circuit authority)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No your legacy will be breaking down in tears studmuffin. Bend over.


26 posted on 08/26/2024 7:30:18 AM PDT by jimbug
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To: ChicagoConservative27
‘My legacy is one of breaking down barriers’...

Like the barrier from the US Senate to a federal prison?!

27 posted on 08/26/2024 7:39:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Convicted felon and former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez fought back tears while describing his legacy as one of “breaking down barriers,” denying that it entailed breaking laws as well.

There...fixed.

28 posted on 08/26/2024 7:40:36 AM PDT by econjack
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s a dweeby little white guy who got power and used it to get money. Hispanic might be relevant to Hispanics but in his case, not to whites.


29 posted on 08/26/2024 7:41:30 AM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

” ‘My legacy is one of breaking down barriers’”

My legacy is one of corruption.


30 posted on 08/26/2024 7:41:34 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His “legacy”??? That’s all they care about? Stfu Bob


31 posted on 08/26/2024 7:43:04 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Breaking down barriers with bribes and payoffs, other illegal actions. Legacy indeed.


32 posted on 08/26/2024 7:43:33 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s true.

Except — the barriers he means were barriers between him and money that didn’t belong to him.


33 posted on 08/26/2024 7:45:42 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You don’t get to frame your own legacy asshat.


34 posted on 08/26/2024 7:46:00 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: mosaicwolf

Yeah…its just sociopath 101 with these guys and gals.

The idea that they are wrong at any point just does not compute in their heads.


35 posted on 08/26/2024 7:51:14 AM PDT by suasponte137
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To: ChicagoConservative27

““A legacy is planting seeds to create a tree where you won’t sit under it. That’s a legacy. And in that sense, we have sown and planted so many seeds, which I know is a good legacy.””

Interesting analogy he used there. Interesting that he used the term “good”... since there are also bad legacies. A more apt and accurate description of “his legacy” would be one of typical Democrat corruption and one that presents a cautionary tale of the usual Democrat destruction that could be avoided by term limits.

A bad legacy, like the one of Barack Hussein Obama, is also descriptive of that “so many seeds sown and planted”. And the obvious problem is... the seeds are all bad, destructive seeds... and America is still reeling from those bad seeds that are still being sown. I am always amazed at the hubris of these Democrats that, even as their personal reputation ship is sinking... they insist on proclaiming that it was a “good” thing they have done in service to Americans... when quite the opposite is the truth.

So no, Bob... nobody ‘else’ will be sitting under your legacy tree... because that tree is another one that poisons the very soil around it... and one that damages anyone that gets next to it. It’s the typical legacy of a typical leftist Democrat. One that needs to be uprooted and torn out completely and ultimately.


36 posted on 08/26/2024 7:56:25 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tears up over resignation looked a lot like tears up resignation.


37 posted on 08/26/2024 8:08:32 AM PDT by webheart
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To: ChicagoConservative27

By barriers he means the barriers to the cash room.


38 posted on 08/26/2024 8:25:06 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

The corrupt bum should be hung from a lamppost in public for his many (and likely continuing) crimes. His extended family should be waterboarded to discover their part in this criminal treacherousness.


39 posted on 08/26/2024 8:36:05 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: heartwood; All

He is Cuban-American, NOT like the majority of these great fully assimilated Patriotic Americans, no Menendez is a corruptocrat not unlike his pals in the Dominican Banana Republic. His pedo/buddy a surgeon in Miami is doing federal time for conviction on Medicare fraud- massive. This guy pimped little girls to Menendez when in country in Dom.Repub.

Funny the clintons famous disgusting “beach dance” she with her cankles and he with flushed coke nose face— was taken at a Dominican Republic place they owned there.


40 posted on 08/26/2024 10:23:40 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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