‘View’ host suggests Sen. Menendez’s wife was mastermind behind alleged corruption: ‘Not the Bob I know’ [Video]

“The View” co-host Ana Navarro defended her friend Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., on Friday, claiming that the allegations of his corruption and bribery schemes while in office don’t sound like him.

“This is not the Bob I know,” Navarro said, also suggesting that the lawmaker’s wife, Nadine Menendez, may have been the instigator behind his alleged crimes.

Menendez has been federally charged with acting as a foreign agent and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in the form of cash, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz to benefit the Egyptian government through his power and influence as a U.S. senator.

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He has also been accused of accepting bribes and gifts in exchange for helping Qatar as part of a yearslong corruption scheme from 2021 through 2023.

According to newly unsealed court documentspertaining to his upcoming federal trial, Menendez is expected to blame …