El Diario El Salvador, the country’s most widely circulated newspaper, responded to the demand of Republican U.S. Senator John Fetterman, who said that Democrat Menéndez “cannot be part of the legislature and that he was elected a long time ago.” should have left.”
Fetterman called on the Senate to vote on the resolution. “Senator Menéndez should not be a United States Senator. He should have been gone a long time ago. It is time for every one of my colleagues in the Senate to join me in removing Senator Menendez. “We cannot have a suspected foreign agent in the U.S. Senate,” he said.
The media stated that the lawsuit came after New Jersey Attorney General Damian William filed a new indictment against Menéndez for allegedly acting as an agent of Egypt alongside his wife Nadine Arslanian while chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee directed.
The accusation states that Menéndez and his wife accepted thousands of dollars in bribes from 2018 to 2022. The Democrat thus used his power as a senator to help three businessmen from the same state and the Egyptian government.
From his position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the politician criticized President Nayib Bukele and once called on the FBI to investigate El Salvador over the law that made Bitcoin legal tender.
Following the accusation, the Salvadoran president responded to the message on social media: “This guy called for an investigation into us. “He ended up being charged.”
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