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Jan. 30, 2025 - The David Knight Show
10:07
Gold Bars to Steel Bars: Senator 'Gold Bar Bob' Menendez's Fall from Political Apex to Prison
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Former Senator Bob Menendez, who had been found guilty a few months ago, he was now just sentenced to what is essentially at his age, maybe a life sentence.
I don't know if he'd have to serve all of it.
Eleven years in prison on corruption charges.
He looks older than he is, actually.
I think he's 71. I was surprised.
But, you know, he was found guilty of corruption, and he was paid off.
In gold bars.
Chairman Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Remember the gold bars and the Mercedes.
The Democrat from New Jersey was convicted of taking these bribes and acting as an agent of Egypt.
Oh, Egypt.
Oh, those are the people that Trump wants to give money to to take the people out of Gaza off the hands of the Israelis, shut down all foreign aid.
Except to Israel and Egypt.
And so Menendez was taking money from Egypt.
So we send the money to Egypt.
They send it back to people like Bob Menendez.
That's how it works.
That's how they get their money.
You know, just like we send lots of money to Israel.
Just like Egypt, they then buy politicians with it.
And then they get even more money.
It's just like the corporations, the companies, the countries, and other.
They're also playing that same game.
You buy a politician.
Very easy to do.
And of course Israel owns all the politicians just like Big Pharma does.
But at least he recognizes real value.
He was paid off in gold bars.
But now he's going to be behind bars of steel for a while.
A luxury car and all the rest of this stuff.
The judge lectured him issuing the sentence and said, you stood at the apex of our political system somewhere along the way.
You lost your way.
Found guilty on all 16 counts last year in his federal corruption trial.
Became the first sitting member of Congress to be convicted of acting as a foreign agent.
The fact that, and, you know, in actuality, you know, Biden didn't pardon himself.
So maybe we'll have the first president.
Be convicted of acting as a foreign agent for Ukraine.
Who knows?
In fact, he was a public office holder, said the judge, who held a position of great public trust, and that has to be taken into account in this sentencing.
Where there's wrongdoing of this magnitude, there are serious consequences.
But, you know, there weren't any serious consequences for him the last time this happened, and he's a repeat offender.
He had already had a corruption trial.
Situation with a guy who was some kind of a doctor in Florida, and there was Medicare fraud or something like that.
And he beat the rap with that.
And so, you know, what happens is you get away with these crimes, like locking the country down and killing people with vaccines, and you just do it again.
Why wouldn't you, I guess?
You know, if these people see they can get away with it, they do it again.
And that's what he did.
He did it again.
And I thought it was interesting that in his former bribery and corruption trial, That the person who stood up for him and stood by him was none other than Miss Lindsay.
To let the court know that of all the people I've dealt with in the Senate, Bob is a very honest, honorable guy.
All my interactions with Bob have been on the up and up.
He's the type of guy that if he gives you his word, he sticks with it no matter how much pressure is put on him to back off.
Yeah, that's right.
His word is like gold.
And you can take that to the bank.
Oh, better not take it to the bank.
Better put it in the closet there.
Yeah, that's Lindsey Graham.
You know, of all the people that he's worked with, and I cut that because it's a little bit longer, and what he does, he repeats in that aside where they ask him, you know, why didn't you come all the way up here to New Jersey or whatever, and why didn't you come up to this trial?
You're from South Carolina.
You're a Republican.
He's a Democrat.
And he says, you know, of all the senators that I've worked with, Bob Menendez is honest and honorable.
And he says that a second time, so I cut it because it's kind of redundant.
He's honest and honorable.
He's honest and honorable.
He really stressed that.
Honest and honorable.
Compared to the other senators.
Compared to Lindsey Graham, he's honest and honorable.
Compared to the other senators that are up there, he's honest and honorable.
And he's going to jail.
Yeah.
But, you know, Lindsey Graham, as much as he loves this honest and honorable Menendez, And helped him to get off the hook the first time he was caught on it.
As much as Lindsey Graham loves people like Bob Menendez, who are part of the club, you know.
It may be Republican versus Democrat, but it's just like the Looney Tunes cartoon when you see at the beginning of it, you've got the sheepdog and the coyote.
You know, hey, how you doing this morning?
You know, they click in for work and then they're fighting each other the rest of the time.
You know, they punch the card and they go in and then...
The bell rings and they stop and they punch their car and they got their friends and they go out to get something to drink after work.
Well, Lindsey Graham likes those kind of guys.
And they're honest and honorable.
But you know, the people who ought to be in jail, according to Lindsey, those January the 6th people, they need to be in jail.
He said it was a mistake.
Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently, I think that's a mistake.
Well, those are two different categories of people, of course.
The police officer who got hit or whatever, of course there was a protester that got killed, but the person who was attacked was not inside the Capitol, and so he thinks the people who went into the Capitol need to be in jail as well.
Not just the people who got violent understand that.
There's one standard for them, the Congressional Club, and there's another standard for the rest of us.
And, I don't know, you know, what about this Hunter Biden pardon?
How does that work out?
Well, so, you know, did Lindsay acknowledge the First Amendment for peaceful protest?
No, no.
How about the Eighth Amendment where you have excessive punishment?
Cruel and unusual punishment.
No, not for that.
You know, and when you look at it, even the people who were convicted of You know, punching a cop, yeah, that would be something you'd put somebody in jail for, absolutely.
But, you know, for decades?
And the people that they put in there for decades were not accused of violence either.
And so, you know, even the people that were there for violence, what they got was cruel, unusual, and excessive punishment.
But Lindsey Graham doesn't see it that way.
Lindsey Graham says, you know, Biden pardoned half his family going out the door.
I think most Americans, if this continues, will visit the pardon power of the president, if this continues, as to pardon violent people who are beat-up cops.
I think that's a mistake.
What it says now to the Trump family and to Biden and to President Trump's family, he said, Well, that is, they can engage in whatever kind of malfeasance and criminality and graft and whatever, and they can expect a pardon on the way out the door.
That's not a message you want to send to his family, or to really any family occupying the White House.
The last part was actually Schiff.
Adam Schiff.
Oh, okay.
Because Lindsey Graham isn't going to say that, is he?
He's not going to say it about Trump's kids.
Schiff will talk about Trump.
Graham will talk about Hunter.
But what they really hate and really see as the enemy is you.
You are the enemy.
And don't let that, you know, we don't want to have a Constitution standing in the way of them punishing the people that they're afraid of.
Because if we really knew what they did, the American people really knew what they did to us.
There are a lot of people who supported President Trump.
You know, Lindsey Graham said, law enforcement people.
They didn't like this.
But he said during the campaign he's not going to trick people.
Well, I'll be consistent here, right?
I don't like getting people out of jail, he said.
Or pardoning people who burned down cities, who beat up cops, whether you're Republican or Democrat.
Yeah, he'd just lock them all up.
He's just like Biden in that regard.
Biden wants to lock everybody up.
And then you got Chris Christie jumping in on these pardons, the January 6th pardons.
He says Biden's pardons were, quote, disgraceful.
Chris Christie said Trump's were even worse.
Even worse.
Adding that the two are the most selfish men to occupy the Oval Office.
He said, look, I think the pardons by Joe Biden were disgraceful.
I think Trump has taken it to another level as well.
These are the two most selfish politicians in the presidency in my lifetime.
Biden pardoning his family proves it.
Trump whitewashing January the 6th proves it.
This is Chris Christie, folks, who supports the war on drugs.
And he supports all of its metastasized cancerous tumors.
Things like the SWAT team raids on us.
Things like civil asset forfeiture where they take our property and never even charge us with a crime, let alone find us guilty.
Chris Christie supports that.
Lindsey Graham supports that.
Joe Biden supported that.
Donald Trump left it in place as well.
That's right, boys and girls.
There's a post-election sale on silver and gold.
Trump euphoria has caused a dip in silver and gold.
It's time to buy some medals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense is.
Go to davidknight.gold to get in touch with the wise wolf himself, Tony Arterburn.
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