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 2022: 🇺🇸 US Senator Bob Menendez says El Salvador adopting #Bitcoin opens doors to money laundering and corruption.

2023: Menendez indicted for corruption, accepted $580,000 bribe in cash and gold bars.

Poetic. https://image.nostr.build/5bd4ba3dad7ee4fed7626223b39bd3546e58e880bbe5e398c70794e89fa3a3fa.jpg  
 😮 
 American politics are broke 
 His face is 0.8 times the size it should be 
 If you're going to accept a corrupt bribe, do it in style.  Get it in gold. 
 Vagabundo, hipócrita e burro! 
 Convicted. Biden expected to pardon.

https://nypost.com/2024/08/21/us-news/nj-sen-bob-menendez-resigns-after-corruption-conviction-last-month/

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 Their hypocrisy has no bounds.