Democratic lawmaker allegedly exchanged bribes for policy influence
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2024
- CNN's Melanie Zanona reports on the indictment of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife, who has been charged with accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities, according to an indictment in federal court in Texas. #CNN #News
So sick of the legalized and illegal bribery going on in Congress.
We need to overturn/Repeal Citizens United..
So sad that republicans legalized it.
especially when foreign lobby bribes them to send money to their countries, ie AIPAC
@@gen_z_hippichikk it's both parties one might do a bit more than the other but it's not by much.
It is so sad how people are voting in november thinking that these people will do anything for them, while they are doing the bidding of foreign governments.
@@gen_z_hippichikkdemocrats have had plenty of chances to make it illegal .
All government corruption needs to be cleaned out. Doesn’t matter what party. I’m a stubborn democrat but he needs to go.
Wait, so bribes from foreign entities are illegal, but bribes from domestic ones (aka lobbying) are not? They should both be illegal!
They claim that lobbying is okay because it's not under the table, but the result is the same, preferential treatment for the wealthy.
Who do you think makes the laws regarding that? Politicians don't want to criminalize themselves while they have a good thing going for their wallets.
Call your Congress representative and see where they stand on this. Then vote accordingly.
Good point. Unfortunately, lobbyists are here to stay.
He should be pulled from his committees during the investigation and jailed seriously if found guilty. It should also trigger a check of money received alongside votes made by all members to ensure there are no more cases just being missed.
"jailed seriously".
As opposed to be jailed, how?
Leader Jeffries has already pulled him from committees.
He should be treated exactly as any other person. Innocent until found guilty. Then if guilty he should face the FULL FORCE OF THE LAW, with a an extra punishment because of his position in society as a lawmaker. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
I don't blame the congressman, as CNN freed a bigger culprit who did the same crime with China and Ukraine😅
*i.e., what the Biden Crime Family has been doing for well over a decade now.*
As a Dem, I'm all for holding him accountable. That's the difference between law-abiding Americans and MAGA.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Davidj222 tell me why Menendez is still a Senator then. I will wait.
Tell why Biden hasn’t been charged for Hunters pay for favors schemes? 10% to the big guy. China, Moscow, Kazakhstan, Ukraine,….
MAGA shields, protects and wipes the azz of their own. Dems follow the law and let accountability reign. That's the difference!!! Vote blue for accountability
😭😭😭😭
Kick him out of Congress.
Right! Also glad Trump is being prosecuted so he won't step at the White House again. Rule of law right? innocent until proven guilty applies to all.
They kept Menendez in ….
And we keep hearing the system isn't corrupt.
“We have lots of theories, we just don’t have any evidence.”
- Rudy G
If you're a progressive or liberal, it’s just fine.
Where in the name of god do you keep hearing that the system is not corrupt? I only hear the opposite. I think YOU only hear the opposite unless you have daydreams back to high school civics class.
We do NOT keep hearing that. Just the opposite.
@@donofon1014 I determine reality based on what is true, not based on how often I hear something repeated. 🤔
Either party member should be held accountable for any crimes. These elected officials must be held to the highest standard.
Like when a senator steals classified documents, shares them with a writer, stores them in a garage, then lies about finding them years later? 😂
OMG. We hold them to the lowest standard!
... And they fail that.
Not like that! Thats different lol@franklin9400
C O R R U PT I O N IS A PANDEMIC WITHIN DEMONRATS!!!!
C0 RRPTION IS A PANDEMIC WITHIN DEM0N RATS!!!!
Now is the time for Merrick Garland to leap into action again and make some feeble statement about following the evidence, before doing nothing.
Leap into action AGAIN?!
I've seen half-eaten dead fish washed up on the beach with more energy than that guy. They'd probably be more effective too.
That’s what liberals do best, they only care if it’s republicans doing something wrong. Just look at all the riots going on at college campuses, not a single word from communist news network.
He needs to resign and face charges.
Crime is crime. No matter who you are. No one is above the Law.
Unless your a Biden or Clinton so yea whatever you say.
If guilty, they should be punished to the full extent of the law. No one is above the law.
Menendez is.
Except Clarence Thomas and his wife.
If he did it , prosecute. Do the same with the SCOTUS bribes
The Dems (who I support) need to make an example of him if he is guilty. Imposing justice on one of their own should show the GOP that justice does not recognize party affiliation when a crime is committed.
I don't hear anyone defending Menendez and that is how it should be.
Joe Biden?
@@davemitchell6281 For what? The gossip you biddies lap up on fox 'news' of $787 million fame?
Like when your congressmen steals classified documents and stores them in his garage? Next to his corvette. 😂
@@franklin9400 Your ignorance is striking but not surprising. I know this won't do anything because you're partisan.
There's different levels of classification. Sometimes personal notes are classified sometimes they're not.
When someone leaves office there's reams of paperwork and staff goes through most of it. Mistakes happen often. The people at the National Archives then review it looking for the most highly secret and topical documents. They're good at it as it's all they do. When they find something they tell you to give it back. That's what Pence did. In Biden's case his own lawyers found them and he informed them.
Trump first ignored the request, then tried to claim he owned them like nuclear secrets and battle plans are mementos to show off to impress people. Then gave some back. Then lied and said he gave them all back. Then they had to get a subpoena and raid the place so that irresponsible idiot didn't get our assets killed. There's a big difference between what Pence and Biden did and what Trump did.
Anyone surprised? Politicians…
How do you know if a politician is lying?
Their mouth is moving.
And neither the DEMS nor the REPUBLICANS have anything to say. Wonder why???
Probably because they are all guilty of something.
Lock him up next to Trump.
That should punish them both.
Lmao
You’re crazy lady
Do you have have any idea of what the Clinton’s , Obama’s and Bush family’s have done of are you a npc?
F J B VERY BAD 24/7 NONSTOP!!!!
Trump never took bribes from Mexico
He should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the Law if the investigation finds him guilty.
Criminals face consequences, no matter the party.
Menendez!
Lock him up!!
This is the same guy who sides with the GOP. No wonder.
Liberals at their best. Criminals.
🤣 Delusional.
And Bob Menendez and Biden too.
Ukraine Joe and his crackhead son?
Open borders.. Alejandro Mayorkas?
Weaponized doj.. Merrick Garland?
Weaponized FBI.. Christopher Wray?
This is a criminal syndicate
So you agree this is a politically motivated prosecution like all of Trump's false charges?
Another criminal lawmaker when is this sh____t going to stop ?????????
New flash...they all do !!
Both parties do it all the time.
Now all you need is some evidence. 🤔
Liberals always having an excuse 😂
@@PabloTheThinker I am not defending the Dems genius do the crime do the time, you right wing nuts in the other hand support your right wing criminals 100 percent.
@@PabloTheThinker I never heard a liberal scream WITCH HUNT !!!!! 🤔
@@gen_z_hippichikk Really? Just this week I heard them say that about the weaponization committee.
I assume he'll be looking at about 93 charges.
no, he is not a republican.
@@sachiperez neither am I.
Or a Dem. But you got my point. 👍
Only if he earned them...
He’s nowhere near as dirty as Trump
@@utube012341 that may be true, but it'd be great to investigate Nancy and her hammerhead husband! 💰💰💰💰💰
He and his wife should be banned from public office fined 4 million and 15 yrs.
Next Clarence and his wife!
Get rid of Cuellar and Bob Menendez at the earliest. If not...all moral high ground is lost.
Flush him through the toilet.... Kick him out of the party: corruption should have no place in de dem party
Appalling! Hate to see corruption - including from “leaders”…. NO place for corruption in government. Need STRICT accountability -checks & balances!
He should appeal this to the Supreme Court and claim he's running for president like the other guy.
Someone didn't give that 10% to the "big guy".
Shocking. Oh wait no it's not
If this information is true, he must resign from Congress immediately! Corruption in government at every level must be stopped.
They searched his home 2 years ago and they finally charge him now ? Why so damn long !!
Crooked Demorat not SURPRISED!!!!!!
Now imagine all of the instances of this you can’t see
Proof that scoundrels run for office in both parties. We should avoid voting along party lines without actually looking at the individual candidates first.
Santos......Menendez.......Cuellar............
Is anyone else seeing a pattern here?
WOW, had no idea about this.......what a jerk!
I am sick of all this criminal behavior from our citizens of the USA representing USA citizens.
He forgot to pay The Big Guy his 10%.
Shocker.
“Doing favors for foreign governments.” God Help US. 🙏
Lmao. Looks like Mr DOJ isn't really running a two teared justice system after all. He's just draining the whole damn swamp. 😂😂😂
It is good to see our DoJ working apolitically. let it play out in the courts.
Nothing new. Get rid of Aipac.
Noooooo. So tough to believe. 😜🥱
Hate seeing it's a democrat, but zero tolerance for greed, corruption, or abuse by those in power.
So how is this any different from AIPAC giving money to Congress for reelection in exchange for favorable policy?
It’s wild , these elected officials are crazy
So a lobbyist giving money to politicians is not bribery, just a "campaign contribution". If America wants to end corruption, it has to end legalized bribery.
How many other legislators have been, and still are getting very wealthy doing exactly the same thing? I would wager most do.
When Bills are written money often goes full circle to Ukraine and back and many other countries.
Wrong is wrong
Another shining example of why term limits are a good thing.
Insider trading was too much work for Cuellar.
he must have steppped on the wrong toes , they all do it and get away with it...he made someone mad to get indicted!!
Absolutely the police officer is wrong to be verbally abusive and dismissive of this man’s statement. I don’t believe that a sober adult would crash their car into a pole, leave the scene of the accident, and go to a bar (because, be real; it wasn’t a meeting hall, it was a bar) and then resist detention by police. 100% there is a discriminatory use of violence by law enforcement and this is wrong. However, the officers would not have used force if a sober, clear thinking adult had responded to their approach. Comparing this to Floyd is a false equivalency.
Huh?
@@vitalsigns2679 best part is that not only was it completely off-topic, it was even +1'd (likely by the script itself).
Now we just need to hear them doing the time
This democratic lawmakers need to stop
All of congress text,emails, and communications should be made public to the fullest. Tired of this corruption 😤
He should never have complained about the border
The only difference between him and the rest of them is that he got caught. They're all doing it. The we say so Corporation at its finest.
It was time for him to go a long time ago.
Speedy trial please
I came from a country which the can bride the government for anything. If he’s took the bribes. Please make him accountable! I hate peoples took bribes when they are in government, which they are supposed to work for the theirs citizen!
Like we are surprised
Trump has not been forced. He chose. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
he shouldn't be able to sit on committees that support ordilberate on the outcome not while in office
Look out marge
You can never temp people with instant riches which is our system
They’re not coming after him, they’re coming after you, he’s just standing in the way
Stop parroting Trump’s BS lines.
@@kenmurray4005sarcasm bud
If people stopped letting them accuse them of choosing with enemies and instead made them out to be as they really are prejudice and xenophobic, they would stop having them swallow up all those who did right by all Americans regardless of culture or religion.
treason
Just like Bob Menendez? What a wierd coincidence.
he learned from Robert L Peters.
All I'm going to say is that, I have a feeling, if he gets reelected, Texas' border crisis will get worse and worse, not better.
If true….lock him up….
Right to jail
Good get his ass OUTTA THERE. Just as sick and tired of corrupt Dem’s just as much as I am Repub’s
Ironically, this politician is indicted for doing business with a foreign country but it is ok for another unnamed country to dictate to us through speeches, laws and directives.
If the creep was a GOP member and The Orange Thing was in power, he would get a promotion.
That’s what they all say after getting caught.🤣🤣🤣
When i went to court for a traffic ticket the judge said i was the scum of the earth . Guess ill run for congress now
If he’s guilty he should be expelled and I’m a independent it’s only fair
IT Doesn’t matter what party they belong to. I’m a progressive. Let’s try to clean house of this nonsense.
I'm a Democrat and great job. Go Biden
Uh oh. Should have called himself "the big guy" to remain anonymous. That worked out for another Dem I hear.
KICK HIM OUT OF CONGRESS !!!!!!!!
Let him share a cell with Donald Trump.
His vote is still there to be used for their agenda. Him and Menendez should vote against there agenda at every tyrn.😮
He spoke out to much about the border.
Who is Eric Coomer and Lisa Monaco ?
🤣🤣🤣 no way, a democrat doing wrong and actually being called out on it?? For a lousy 600k ...if only it was a chinese oil company ..no one would of blinked .. it must be trumps fault right? 🤪
Or better yet trump
@@David-bj7zr Or worse, Hunter or Joe Briben
@@PabloTheThinker Daddies girl and Hubbie.
@@spotty67 You mean Joe Biden taking showers with his daughter Ashley Biden? 😂😂😂
Yeah Donny boy and crooked family has done 20 times worse!!
They all do it
Corruption = imprisonment, be it democrat, gop or anyone else.
The United States of America has some of the finest Congress men that money can buy.
Send his ass to jail
We need to get all the crooks out of politics.
Even Joe?
Starting with DUMPYVONSHITSHISPANTS
Shocking that cnn would turn on one of their own 😱
5:25 we have to hire them and build the new protection and advocacy units that I was explaining since 2016
Gee, I'm so surprised 😏