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>>21220416

Bob Menendez was politically prosecuted

Flexibility has not been Mr. Menendez’s calling card. When Mr. Obama made negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran one of his top second-term foreign policy goals, Mr. Menendez pressed for new sanctions on Tehran that some Obama officials saw as intended to spoil the talks. Once the nuclear deal was completed, in 2015, Mr. Menendez vocally criticized and voted against it. And when Mr. Biden sought in 2021 and last year to return the United States to the agreement after President Donald J. Trump’s withdrawal, Mr. Menendez argued that Mr. Biden was making a dangerous mistake.

Most recently, Mr. Menendez has complicated Mr. Biden’s plans to win Sweden’s admission into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in what would be a strategic blow to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Mr. Menendez, who has maintained his innocence, said he would continue to speak out on a range of issues even though he has temporarily stepped down as his committee’s chairman.

“Unless Congress is going to be a rubber stamp for the domestic and foreign policy of any administration,” he said, “it is the constitutional right of Congress to act as a counterweight.”

Benjamin J. Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser in the Obama White House, said that Mr. Menendez was “a pain on a bunch of issues,” though none more that Mr. Obama’s efforts to restore relations with Cuba. Mr. Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, has long advocated a hard U.S. line toward socialist dictators in the region.

“He has used the chairmanship of that committee as a venue for intimidation and retribution to raise the cost of doing anything he doesn’t like,” said Mr. Rhodes, pointing to the control Mr. Menendez has had over whether and when presidential nominees for diplomatic posts would receive hearings in his committee.

Mr. Rhodes and other Democrats are unhappy that Mr. Biden has maintained heavy sanctions placed on Venezuela and Cuba during the Trump administration.

(Mr. Menendez was unable to block Mr. Obama’s Cuba diplomacy or the Iran nuclear deal because he had temporarily relinquished his committee chairmanship during a prior federal corruption investigation. He returned to the position after the case ended in a mistrial.)

In the near term, Mr. Menendez’s troubles could ease Sweden’s bid to join NATO. Mr. Biden supports the move and all but two members — Turkey and Hungary — have approved it. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey complains that Sweden is too welcoming to Kurdish nationalists whom his government considers terrorists.

But Mr. Erdogan says he will green-light Sweden’s NATO membership if the United States agrees to sell his country new F-16 fighter jets along with upgrade kits for existing ones in Turkey’s air force. The issue is set to come up before the Turkish parliament when it reconvenes next month.

Mr. Menendez has long opposed the F-16 sale, citing Mr. Erdogan’s “violent” rule at home and “absolutely awful” policies abroad, including his aggressive use of American-bought warplanes in Cyprus and against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in Syria. That position put Mr. Menendez out of step with some other Democratic members of his committee, who believe the F-16 deal should be approved if Mr. Erdogan agrees to Sweden’s NATO membership.

Mr. Erdogan cheered the senator’s demotion this week, telling reporters that “Menendez being out of the picture is an advantage” for Turkey.

Mr. Cardin may take a less stringent position. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, he called the issue “complicated.”

Even if Mr. Cardin adopts a softer line, obstacles remain: Mr. Menendez’s counterpart in the House, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Democrat of New York, and the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said Tuesday that he remained skeptical about the F-16 deal.

Mr. Menendez’s loss of control over his committee also creates possible new openings for the Biden administration in the realm of sanctions policy.

On Iran, Mr. Menendez has teamed up with Republicans to codify sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile and drone development program before U.N. penalties for those programs expire next month. That effort could limit the Biden administration’s ability to negotiate with Tehran on its nuclear program and other matters at a time when the White House has sought to de-escalate tensions with the country.

While Mr. Cardin has expressed interest in seeing those sanctions extended, he has not signed on to that legislation.

>>21220426

Recording a President without telling him is not a Great way to make Friends

>>21220371

THANK YOU!

>>21220429

Bob Menendez was politically prosecuted

Mr. Cardin, who was filling in for Mr. Menendez as the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee when the 2015 nuclear deal was approved, also voted against that agreement. But he was less critical of the deal than Mr. Menendez was, calling his own decision “a close call.”

On Cuba, Mr. Cardin asked reporters this week to “give me a little bit of time,” but noted that he holds a “pro-engagement” view toward Havana — hardly Mr. Menendez’s philosophy.

If Mr. Menendez’s legal woes are reason for some celebration in Turkey, they are cause for concern in Armenia, which is losing its most powerful congressional advocate at a moment of crisis after Azerbaijan this month captured the long-disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Mr. Menendez has strong political and personal ties to Armenia: New Jersey has a large Armenian population and he is married to an ethnic Armenian, Nadine Arslanian. (Ms. Arslanian is also his accused co-conspirator). He has long supported officially recognizing that Turkey committed genocide against Armenians in the early 1900s and other matters dear to the small Christian nation in the Caucasus.

As Azerbaijan blockaded the Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh in recent months, Mr. Menendez pressed for a much firmer U.S. response — hauling a senior State Department official in for a grilling before his committee and accusing the United States of pandering to Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev.

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SHOW THE PEOPLE THOSE NON-EXISTENT SAFETY AND EFFICACY TESTS THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED.

HAVE THEY BEEN DONE? NOPE!!!

HOW MANY MORE CHILDREN NEED TO BE KILLED, MAIMED, OR SUFFER SERIOUS HEART COMPLICATIONS BEFORE THESE DANGEROUS INJECTIONS ARE PULLED? WHAT IS THAT NUMBER? THAT LIMIT? HOW MANY MORE CHILDREN?

YOU EVIL MONSTERS NEED TO GET RIGHT.

"OOOPS" WON'T CUT IT.

"SORRY" WILL NOT FIX THE DAMAGE THEY KNOWINGLY CAUSED.

THEY KNEW FULL-WELL THE ENTIRE TIME.

Snedrag Etatspeed, Cuba.

Lovely weather and amenities.

Be sure to visit the garden.

>>21220430

Notes to remember.

check.

Any Anon Charted the 3 bullets in order of shot?

please post nb

>>21220405

>Not even joking

>611

HAVE YOU TRIED CALLING THE NUMBER 611? MAYBE THE BABYSITTER PICKS UP THE PHONE BUT YOU HAVE TO PRESS 0 TO CALL OUTSIDE OF PRISON

>>21220419

who is filming the guy with the camera.

is that a extra camera with the guy with the camera?

>>21220433

Will you claim it was just a jab?

Will you die?

Will you cremate yourself?

>>21220104

Possibly RFK was the target, which POTUS immediately got protection for.

>>21220404

Go woke, go broke.

final

NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS

#26006 >>21219678

>>21219700 Three snipers were stationed inside building used in Trump assassination attempt

>>21219701, >>21219702, >>21220155, >>21220347 Major Oddities (red flags) from the July 13, 2024 Butler Trump Rally:

>>21219720 hmm, Mirotvorets

>>21219757, >>21219825 FBI continues looking into Trump shooter's background

>>21219850, >>21219904 Election Polls: Trump Increasing Leads Over Biden

>>21219860, >>21220434 Jack Black axes tour over bandmate's President Trump comment dropped by agent also

>>21219932, >>21219937, >>21220122, >>21220132, >>21220181, >>21220395 Swampennings

>>21219933, >>21219942, >>21219996, >>21220105, >>21220195 Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty in federal corruption trial on ALL Charges

>>21219954 Teamsters President Sean O'Brien loves JD Vance.

>>21219962 Navy Reserve officer convicted in Afghan visa bribery scheme

>>21219964, >>21219976 Cheatle: We wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof, so the decision was made to secure the building, from inside

>>21219977 Trump likens gunshot wound to ‘mosquito,’ echoes vaccination conspiracies in leaked call with RFK

>>21219980 Rest In Peace Brother Corey Comperatore

>>21220002 Trump needs hood protection instead of Secret Service.

>>21220004 Trump Supporter: “I’ve Been to Every Trump Rally, They Left a Clear Line-of-Sight to Kill Trump”

>>21220025 Is this an admission that the government has DNA and biometric data on all our most Americans?

>>21220038 The news feed will be us or they can get somebody else to host the show,” Scarborough said.

>>21220043 SpOC stands ready to meet the demands of Great Power Competition

>>21220077 RUSSEL BRAND Trump Shooting: What Next?

>>21220083 Biden’s Team Deliberately Kneecapped Trump’s Security To Allow An Assassination Attempt

>>21220084, >>21220171 Goat comms.

>>21220139 BREAKING: Microsoft has reportedly laid off its internal DEI team.

>>21220152 Edmonton man contributes thousands of photos to Google Street View while dressed as an alien

>>21220204, >>21220222 Victor Davis Hanson - Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left

>>21220210 How a fight over 2 jobs bankrupted union of 40,000 dockworkers

>>21220225, >>21220362 Leaked call to RFK from Trump

>>21220261, >>21220371 Anime versions of Trump's Bizarre Presidency

>>21220280 Pastor James Roemke Cracks Trump Up Doing Impression Of Him Delivering Prayer At The RNC

>>21220297 Glowing Orbs Spotted from the ISS Look Like Alien Spaceships

>>21220314 This counter sniper team never fired, the second counter sniper team w/ an SR25 dropped the shooter

>>21220398 Democrats are circulating a new letter asking the DNC to delay the “virtual roll call” to select the nominee

>>21220416, >>21220429 For Biden, Menendez’s Troubles May Clear Foreign Policy Roadblocks

>>21220419, >>21220425 New video from the Trump assassination attempt

>>21220437

thanks for not bold red texting

>>21220443

BUT YOU HAVE TO PRESS 0 TO CALL OUTSIDE OF PRISON

how would you know that?

dont even answer

>>21220450

Of course. I'm no homo.

>>21220449

You're a bad ass

>>21220138

nah

We have some of those on the perimeter of our property. We call them arborvitae. They are usually planted when they are only 4 feet tall, but grow up to 20 or 30 feet. Those are too tall to be newly planted, imo. They are usually used to provide privacy on perimeters of property lines.

>>21220430

He is trying to redeem himself for being the Warp Speed Vax Daddy

dont forget you are watching a movie

>>21220446

Play your little games

Time is running out

>>21219722

remember some say there were three shooters, so where any of them involved. I doubt it, because they would have certainly hit him, but interesting question.

>>21220464

What games, pal

>>21220437

Autism? SIDS? Lower IQ?

Cause disease to make pharma wealthy?

>>21220463

What Vax did Warp Speed Produce?

What's the name of "Trump's" Vaccine?

>>21220347

>21218708

>>21220386

I haven't seen those reports yet about 3 snipers (have some catching up to do…)

But who is THEY that claims 3 cop snipers inside the building were shooting?

>>21219216 lb

93 pages

>>21220462

Trump is the bitch who said he was the father of the vaccine.

>>21220461

>>21220461

>>21220461

>>21220461

>>21220461

>>21220461

bred

>>21220414

>Booms never fly over night shift' house!

BECAUSE NIGHT SHIFT IS THE BOOM THAT FLEW OVER THE HOUSE THAT MADE HIM A BABYSITTER WITH UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF DIAPERS TO CHANGE

>>21220419

wtf!

are they wearing some sort of Brainstorm type head-kit?

>>21220339

>>21220482

what is that? there's a lot on their heads and helmets. You are telling me NONE of them could have stopped this. Honestly, that is such a fucking lie