Hours after the House of Representatives voted to expel George Santos, a Democrat Senator renewed calls to oust an even more “sinister” lawmaker.
On Friday, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) once again called for the Legislative Branch’s upper chamber to expel New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D).
Fetterman called on his Senate colleagues to oust Menendez after host Joy Behar asked him about the Santos expulsion during an interview on ABC’s “The View.”
“We have a colleague in the Senate that actually does much more sinister and serious kinds of things. Sen. Menendez, he needs to go. And if you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate?” Fetterman said. (RELATED: Indicted US Senator Asked Google ‘How Much Is One Kilo Of Gold Worth?’)
Fetterman said Santos’s “lies were almost, you know, funny” like he “landed on the moon and that kind of stuff.”
“Whereas, I think Menendez, I think is really a senator for Egypt, not New Jersey. So, I really think he needs to go,” he added.
Federal prosecutors for the Southern District of Manhattan have charged Menendez with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion and conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent. Menendez has denied any wrongdoing.
The House voted 311-114 to expel Santos on Friday after an Ethics Committee report found the New York Republican committed serious crimes and “blatantly stole from his campaign” and “deceived donors into providing what they thought were contributions to his campaign but were in fact payments for his personal benefit.”
Santos is only the sixth lawmaker in the history of Congress to be expelled. (RELATED: House Votes To Expel George Santos)
Menendez has pushed against colleagues’ calls for him to resign while fiercely defending his innocence.
“The government is engaged in primitive hunting by which the predator chases its prey until it’s exhausted and then kills it. This tactic won’t work,” he said after federal prosecutors added the fourth count of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent.
“I have done nothing wrong and once all the facts are presented will be found innocent,” he declared.
The New Jersey Democrat and his wife have been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion and conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent.
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