Trump circus overshadows Menendez trial
CNN
Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial, which is taking place less than 500 feet away from Donald Trump’s hush money trial, has mostly been an afterthought to many.
Andrew Giuliani broke away from the press scrum across the street from former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial Tuesday and, holding his phone aloft as he livestreamed the latest from Lower Manhattan, promised his audience “more coverage here shortly.” Asked about the other trial of note in the area – around the corner, less than 500 feet away – the son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani squinted into the middle distance from Manhattan Criminal Court, where the defense had just rested its case. After a brief, confused silence, he smiled. “That’s right, of course,” the onetime candidate for New York governor said. “Forgot about that.” He’s not the only one. Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial, which began eight days ago in the nearby US District Court, has been an afterthought to just about everyone – Republican, Democrat, hot dog vendor – in this maze of government buildings, bodegas, tiny green parks and chain coffee shops. The New Jersey Democrat has been charged by federal prosecutors with accepting bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars – some of the payments allegedly delivered in the form of gold bars – in exchange for assorted favors for a trio of local businessmen and two foreign governments and then conspiring to cover it up after being indicted. The 70-year-old has insisted on his innocence, as have his two co-defendants, who have also pleaded not guilty.
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