Brad Lawrence

I don't want to be a Bob Menendez apologist, particularly in light of how it ended. But I also have, you know, a long history and a respect and affection for at least the first three quarters of his life, political life. I don't have the answer to it. I wish I did, and I feel like I'm an idiot that I don't have the answer for it.

I don't want to be a Bob Menendez apologist, particularly in light of how it ended. But I also have, you know, a long history and a respect and affection for at least the first three quarters of his life, political life. I don't have the answer to it. I wish I did, and I feel like I'm an idiot that I don't have the answer for it.

But, you know, it is to me an inexplicable and tragic way for him to go.

But, you know, it is to me an inexplicable and tragic way for him to go.

Special thanks this week to The New Yorker's Alex Brady.

Special thanks this week to The New Yorker's Alex Brady.

Maybe I drank the Kool-Aid, but I really thought it was sort of unfair. They were criminalizing behavior that maybe wasn't wonderful, but certainly didn't deserve a federal indictment.

Maybe I drank the Kool-Aid, but I really thought it was sort of unfair. They were criminalizing behavior that maybe wasn't wonderful, but certainly didn't deserve a federal indictment.

These are all menendez.

These are all menendez.

I believe he legitimately felt he had done nothing wrong, certainly nothing illegal. I don't know that he moved on.

I believe he legitimately felt he had done nothing wrong, certainly nothing illegal. I don't know that he moved on.

I don't know if it was that literally transactional about it, but I have a feeling that it certainly made him feel like, Playing by the rules certainly didn't get him anything. And so you'd be angry. I mean, I think most people would be angry about being indicted and put through the wringer for something that they felt certainly didn't merit that.

I don't know if it was that literally transactional about it, but I have a feeling that it certainly made him feel like, Playing by the rules certainly didn't get him anything. And so you'd be angry. I mean, I think most people would be angry about being indicted and put through the wringer for something that they felt certainly didn't merit that.

It's how you come out of that may be the more interesting question.

It's how you come out of that may be the more interesting question.

Never, never, never.

Never, never, never.

I don't want to be a Bob Menendez apologist, particularly in light of how it ended. But I also have, you know, a long history and a respect and affection for at least the first three quarters of his life, political life. I don't have the answer to it. I wish I did, and I feel like I'm an idiot that I don't have the answer for it.

But, you know, it is to me an inexplicable and tragic way for him to go.

Special thanks this week to The New Yorker's Alex Brady.

Maybe I drank the Kool-Aid, but I really thought it was sort of unfair. They were criminalizing behavior that maybe wasn't wonderful, but certainly didn't deserve a federal indictment.

These are all menendez.

I believe he legitimately felt he had done nothing wrong, certainly nothing illegal. I don't know that he moved on.

I don't know if it was that literally transactional about it, but I have a feeling that it certainly made him feel like, Playing by the rules certainly didn't get him anything. And so you'd be angry. I mean, I think most people would be angry about being indicted and put through the wringer for something that they felt certainly didn't merit that.

It's how you come out of that may be the more interesting question.

Never, never, never.