Why is Bob ‘Gold Bars’ Menendez still sitting in the US Senate?

It’s a disgrace: Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is inactive a subordinate successful bully lasting of the US Senate, and privy to national-security briefings, contempt federal indictments and a immense heap of evidence, including a large stack of gold bars, exposing his corruption — including collusion with overseas governments.

Heck, these charges travel from the Biden Justice Department, and he’s nether national indictment for corruption and influence-peddling for a second clip — a historical first.

(Plus, his flight the the archetypal clip ’round was an outrage successful itself: The feds dropped the remaining charges aft 1 assemblage hung and the courts redefined what could number arsenic “bribery.”)

NJ Sen. Bob Menendez is simply a disgrace and a nationalist information hazard who should beryllium booted from the US Senate. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer should beryllium telling Bob to resign oregon look expulsion.

And, if Schumer’s conscionable disquieted astir losing a Democratic vote, helium should look to the different broadside of the Capitol, wherever then-new House Speaker Mike Johnson oversaw the booting of Rep. George Santos (also charged but not yet convicted) — contempt the hazard to his slim margin.

Schumer inactive would beryllium amended disconnected than Johnson is, with a coagulated 51-48 bulk positive Vice President Kamala Harris connected speed-dial if determination are immoderate necktie votes.

But Chuck hasn’t adjacent blocked Gold Bars Bob from immoderate confidential briefings, though helium stands charged with providing “sensitive” concealed US accusation to Egyptian officials.

For the record, the only federal lawmaker from New Jersey who hasn’t said Menendez should spell is his ain son, Rep. Robert Menendez Jr. (D-NJ).

And Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat from next-door Pennsylvania, regularly calls retired Menendez arsenic a disgrace who doesn’t beryllium successful the Senate. (He besides returned a $5,000 donation from Menendez’s PAC.)

Menendez should person nary much accidental to commercialized his ballot for favors of immoderate kind, nor to larn immoderate much secrets to sell.

Nor to gully much wage from the taxpayers oregon marginally pad a pension helium doesn’t deserve.

He’ll beryllium spending overmuch of the coming months successful tribunal anyhow — unless his trial, present acceptable to commencement May 15, gets pushed backmost again.

Yet, for each Democrats’ thunder astir “threats to our democracy,” Schumer sits connected his hands erstwhile it comes to Menendez.

Come on, Chuck: Tell Gold Bars to spell — and if helium refuses, get the march to an expulsion ballot started.