After ignoring the federal bribery indictment of Democratic Senator Bob Menendez (NJ) last week, the liberal ladies of The View finally got around to mentioning it on Monday, after NewsBusters called them out. A majority of the cast had harsh words for the allegedly corrupt Senator, but faux-conservative co-host Ana Navarro praised Menendez, bizarrely bragged about bringing some of her “wealth clients” to meet with him, and prayed that there was a “logical explanation” for why he had gold bars and wads of cash squirreled away in his jackets.
When it was her turn to speak about Menendez, Navarro opened by noting that she had “known Bob Menendez for almost 30 years” and that she had “worked with him on many, many issues.”
Navarro boasted: “There is not an important issue to the Latino community -- there is not an important issue about freedom around the world, about freedom in Latin America that he has not been on the forefront of. He is the most senior Latino in Congress. He was the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”
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