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NBC News reports:
Former Sen. Bob Menendez appealed to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a former Senate colleague and a Trump ally, to request a pardon or sentence commutation on his behalf, according to three people with direct knowledge of that effort. Graham and Menendez have long had a close relationship, with Graham standing by the Democrat during Menendez’s first indictment a decade ago on federal corruption charges. But Graham has declined to get involved.
Menendez has also tried to use his longtime connections to Jewish leaders in New York and New Jersey as a different avenue to get to Trump, according to two people familiar with those discussions. Menendez had also reached out to the family of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner for help securing a pardon, but he was rebuffed. Menendez sought and failed to obtain clemency from President Joe Biden before he left office earlier this year.
Read the full article. Yesterday Menendez posted a widely-mocked plea on X. He is scheduled to report to federal prison next month.
Former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez is still pushing for a Trump pardon before reporting to prison
President Donald Trump has not ruled out pardoning or commuting the sentence of former Sen. Bob Menendez, though allies believe there is only a small chance that the New Jersey Democrat will receive…
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