Former Top Democrat Senator Sentenced To 11-Year Prison Term

Instead of contrition, Menendez delivered a defiant script aimed straight at America’s rawest political nerve. By invoking Trump’s battles with prosecutors to defend his own conviction for bribery and acting as an agent of Egypt, he tried to recast a damning verdict as proof of a rigged, partisan justice system. The irony was impossible to miss: a Democrat, found guilty of secretly serving a foreign government, now leaning on Trump’s narrative to claim persecution.