About as believable as Biden's claim that Burisma put Hunter on its payroll @$80,000 per month because of his good looks and crack skills

she did what???!!!

Gold Bar Bob says all that cash and bullion was given to his wife, not him — because they loved her so?

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez didn’t know anything about the gold bars hidden inside his home, his lawyer insisted in court Wednesday — blaming the pol’s “dazzling, tall” wife for stashing the trove away without his knowledge

The veteran Democrat’s lawyer told jurors in Manhattan federal court that Nadine Menendez “sidelined” her hubby — who prosecutors allege took the gold bars, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and a Mercedes convertible, in exchange for wielding his influence to benefit three Garden State businessmen and the governments of Qatar and Egypt.

“Where were the gold bars found? [The] gold bars were found in a locked closet. It is Nadine’s closet,” Menendez’s attorney Avi Weitzman said during opening statements, pulling up a photo of the closet, which he said was “filled with [Nadine’s] clothes.”

“The senator did not know the gold bars were there,” Weitzman told jurors during the remarks, delivered loudly at a near-shout. 

[“When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.” Oliver Wendell Holmes (maybe) ]

“[Nadine] kept Bob sidelined. Nadine had these relationships long before she met Bob,” he added.

The feds found 13 gold bars worth over $150,000 and nearly $500,000 in cash when they raided the couple’s Englewood Cliffs, NJ home in June 2022 — all “fruits” of a corrupt scheme that began in 2018, when Bob and Nadine were just starting to date, prosecutors claimed.

It’s ludicrous to even dream that a trio of Egyptian businessmen seeking (and getting) U.S. approval for their ventures would stoop so low as to bribe the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — why, that would be illegal! — and it’s mere coincidence that they should fall in love with that politician’s wife, described by her hubby’s lawyer as a “beautiful, tall, international woman”, while they were currying favor in Washington. The senator? Why, says his hired pleader, the prosecutors’ allegations are “dead wrong; Menendez was just doing “his job” by reaching out to constituents and doing “diplomacy.”

He says it, I believe it, that settles it.