Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said on Monday that he has “been loyal to only one country in the world for 50 years,” rejecting federal prosecutors’ claim that he has been acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Egypt.
Asked by reporters in the Capitol on Monday about the superseding indictment, which accuses him of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act to work on behalf of the government of Egypt, the embattled senator described the latest charge as “outrageous.”
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“If you look at my history on Egypt, the charges are as outrageous as they are absurd,” Menendez said. “Now, if the press would do their work and look at that history, they would say it’s incongruent with what the government is sa …