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zyklon

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Didn't Bob Menendez get arrested for being a foreign agent?

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Menendez was indeed convicted for that or something along those lines, but on top of that, he was also convicted on over a dozen other counts including bribery, extortion and obstruction of justice in 2024.

The funny thing is that this wasn't even Menendez' first rodeo. The DoJ first indicted then Senator Menendez in the mid 2010s, but dropped the charges in 2018 after a mistrial.

Menendez reportedly had a "dirty reputation" for years — after all, he was a congressman and then senator representing the fictional Tony Soprano's home state — so TBF, kudos to the FBI and DoJ for sorting him out, even if it took a few tries.
 
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valysre

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on the recently-sighted flying-thing:
Its amazing what you can do when you steal all the tech from your geopolitical competitors, and then use the stolen baseline as a jumping off point for real innovation.
This comment is special to me because it finally acknowledges that China is in fact innovating. Of course, they're still quite upset about the fact that China stole a march on them and caught up after a century of being stomped on by foreign powers, but this is a good starting point for acceptance.

But what does it matter that it's a "stolen baseline"? Where did the Europeans get gunpowder from? Porcelain ceramics? Paper? Silk? Tea All good questions. And yet, one cannot deny that the Europeans really did innovate with gunpowder after they got their hands on it, and it cannot be denied that they really did use paper to print books. In time, these people will see reason, although i don't think it will be in my lifetime.
 

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Senate Republicans Vote to Allow Trump to Keep Gifted Qatari Jet After Leaving Office​

Republican members of the Senate Committee of Appropriations voted against an amendment prohibiting President Donald Trump from keeping the Qatari plane after his term.

In May, ABC News first broke the story that the president was going to accept a the gift — a Boeing 747 jumbo jet referred to as a “palace in the sky” — from the Qatari government. At the time of writing, the plane was undergoing a costly retrofit to serve as a temporary Air Force One while the actual Air Force One is going through its own upgrades.

That decision to accept the plane was met with a great deal of backlash from members of the Democratic Party, who questioned what Trump would do with it once his second term as president ended. Members of Congress opposed the idea of his continuing to use the plane when he was no longer president, but the Trump administration insisted it would not be for personal use.

ABC News reported earlier in the year that the Pentagon’s “plan” for the plane “called for transferring ownership of the plane to the Trump presidential library foundation” after he left office, which would still leave it under Trump’s control.

On Thursday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said on X/Twitter that he offered an amendment to the Appropriations Committee to “prohibit the Qatari jet that was gifted to Trump” to be transferred to him after his presidency.

“The fight against corruption has to be ceaseless,” Murphy added.

Approximately 90 minutes later, Murphy returned to the social media platform to deliver the news that the amendment was shot down by the Republicans of the committee.

“Update: I offered the amendment,” he said. “Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office – after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.

“Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.”

Apparently, Trump is allowed to keep the jet that taxpayers spent $1 billion to retrofit into Air Force One.
 
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