The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi is More Complicated Than We All Knew

This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This anniversary should also mark the day a United States Senator betrayed his oath to the Constitution. The true story of Gold Bar Bob’s Washington, D.C., is more scandalous than any Netflix series. For the first time in American history, a United States Senator was caught acting as a foreign agent. In exchange for cash, gold bars, and a new Mercedes-Benz, former Senator Bob Menendez betrayed his nation—a nation that provided his parents a safe place to give him birth on January 1, 1954, even though it was rumored his mother had considered an abortion. His family had barely escaped serious harm when they arrived in New York City around 1953. America was different back then—tougher, meaner, with fewer opportunities for non-citizens. Bob was an American citizen, though, having been born in a New York City hospital. That made him the hope of his family. He became living proof that anyone could rise in America.