{"id":2283267,"date":"2024-06-25T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/menendez-staff-recalls-senator-acting-unusual-and-weird-about-egypt-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:43:53","slug":"menendez-staff-recalls-senator-acting-unusual-and-weird-about-egypt-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/menendez-staff-recalls-senator-acting-unusual-and-weird-about-egypt-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Menendez staff recalls senator acting \u2018unusual\u2019 and \u2018weird\u2019 about Egypt &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmenendez-staff-recalls-senator-acting-unusual-and-weird-about-egypt-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2283267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former aide to Senator Bob Menendez, \u2064Sarah Arkin, has disclosed concerning \u200cbehavior by \u200cthe senator relating to Egypt during her\u200d time with him when he served as the \u2063chairman of \u200cthe Senate Foreign Relations Committee.\u200c Arkin&#8217;s observations were shared during Menendez&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-things-people-are-afraid-to-say-about-george-floyd-and-the-derek-chauvin-trial\/\" title=\"The Things People Are Afraid To Say About George Floyd And The Derek Chauvin Trial\">ongoing trial<\/a>, where \u200dhe\u2063 faces charges including bribery, fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, and acting as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">foreign agent<\/a> for Egypt. She labeled the\u200c senator&#8217;s actions surrounding Egypt as &#8220;unusual&#8221; and \u2064&#8221;weird.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A former aide of embattled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bob-menendez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Sen. Bob Menendez <\/a>(D-NJ) is speaking out about unusual behavior from her former boss that she witnessed, specifically concerning his relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/egypt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Arkin, a staffer who worked for Menendez when he was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, began to notice \u201cunusual\u201d and \u201cweird\u201d behavior from the senator surrounding Egypt as revealed in Monday\u2019s testimony during Menendez\u2019s trial. Menendez is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bob-menendez-trial-bribery-egypt-trip-sarah-arkin-senate-staffer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>currently on trial<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ark-man-confesses-to-breaching-capitol\/\" title=\"Ark. man confesses to breaching Capitol\">multiple charges<\/a> of bribery, fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, and acting as a foreign agent to Egypt. <\/p>\n<p>One of the earlier incidents that Arkin noticed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/06\/24\/menendez-trial-egyptian-officials-00164776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>was in 2018<\/a> when Menendez sent out two handwritten invitations to the Egyptian defense attache in Washington, Maj. Gen. Khaled Shawky, and Wael \u201cWill\u201d Hana, an Egyptian American businessman from New Jersey. She said the nature of the notes being handwritten was \u201cunusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said Menendez\u2019s new girlfriend at the time, now his wife, was also present at the meeting, which was strange. Nadine Menendez is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-bullion-bob-menendez-charged-for-accepting-bribes-worth-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars\/\" title=\"Democrat Senator 'Bullion Bob' Menendez accused of taking bribes worth hundreds of thousands.\">facing bribery charges<\/a> for her role in the alleged scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Arkin also testified that she began noticing conversations and meetings with Egyptians were taking place behind her back. She said the head of Egypt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-chinese-spy-rep-swalwell-was-sleeping-with-is-pictured-with-chinese-agent-who-spied-on-sen-feinstein-for-20-years\/\" title=\"HUGE: Chinese Spy Rep. Swalwell Was Sleeping With Is Pictured with Chinese Agent Who Spied on Sen. Feinstein for 20 Years\">intelligence service<\/a>, Abbas Kamel, wrote a letter to the senator titled \u201cDear Bob,\u201d which she said is an uncommon introduction to a senator from a foreign official.<\/p>\n<p>As Menendez began planning a trip to Egypt in the fall of 2021, the move piqued other staffers\u2019 interest due to the unusual nature of such an event. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of this Egypt stuff is very weird,\u201d Damian Murphy, another staffer, texted Arkin. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trips like that are normally planned by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/state-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>State Department<\/a>, but Menendez requested that the trip be planned by an Egyptian intelligence officer, Mai Abdelmaguid, from Egypt\u2019s Washington, D.C., Embassy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text messages also revealed chains of messages between Nadine Menendez and Abdelmaguid discussing hair salons and Egyptian interests as it related to U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no one harsher on Egypt than I was,\u201d Menendez told reporters after leaving the courthouse on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former aide to Sen. Bob Menendez, Sarah Arkin, has disclosed peculiar behavior by the senator, particularly regarding his dealings with Egypt. Arkin, who served under Menendez during his tenure as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, observed actions she described as &#8220;unusual&#8221; and &#8220;weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2283268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bob-menendez.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[18325,21401,4012,8037,15997],"class_list":["post-2283267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-unusual","tag-menendez","tag-senator","tag-staff","tag-weird"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bob-menendez.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2283268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}