[Source.](https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/25/the-biden-regime-throws-menendez-under-the-bus/) > In response to the criminal charges against New Jersey Democratic senator Bob Menendez, liberals, and some prominent Ron DeSantis supporters, have collectively mocked Donald Trump’s claim that he is being targeted by a weaponized justice system. But the prosecutions of Trump and Menendez have nothing in common, and efforts to conflate the two are disingenuous. > Menendez is a criminal in the ordinary sense of the term, whereas Trump is an enemy of a political regime. These are two very different things. The comically flagrant corruption of which Menendez is accused, involving gold bars, a Mercedes Benz, Egyptian arms sales, and a halal meat monopoly, is a far cry from the cooked-up charges that Democrats are using to harass Biden’s chief political rival (who happens to be surging in the polls). There is another important distinction: Democrats have much to gain from prosecuting Trump, and little to lose from going after Menendez, a senator in a safely blue state. In fact, doing so helps Democrats counteract Trump’s argument about corruption in the justice system. “See?” they say. “Democrats take corruption seriously. No one is above the law.”