http://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/04/sebelius-harry-reid-pushed-unusual-menendez-meeting-corruption-trial/
Hail, hail, the Democratic gang's all here. Robert Menendez' corruption trial heard from former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who testified to getting pulled into an "unusual" meeting on a topic that she purposefully had avoided until the conversation at the center of her recollections. As the New York Times' Nick Corasanti reports, Sebelius told the jury that she knew that Senator Menendez had been agitating for action on behalf of his friend and political benefactor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, to end his billing dispute with Medicare.
So why did Sebelius end up taking the meeting? Harry Reid intervened:
Well, that question is easy enough to answer - because Robert Menendez is a corrupt sleazebag, Harry Reid is a corrupt sleazebag, and Kathleen Sebelius is a corrupt sleazebag ... and sleazebags of a feather tend to flock together.
Kathleen Sebelius, the former secretary of Health and Human Services, testified on Tuesday that she frequently met with members of Congress about policy issues, but that a meeting in 2012 with Senator Robert Menendez was unusual because it came after a request from another member: Senator Harry Reid.
"It was unusual for Senator Reid to ask me to come to a meeting involving another member of Congress," she said. "I think this was the only time in five and a half years that that occurred." {You think, eh? "Think" as in Hillary's standard dissembling answer for all of her considerable wrong-doings - "I do not recall."}
What also made the meeting different, Ms. Sebelius added, was the topic. "I was asked to discuss a practice involving a billing issue before Medicare and Medicaid services," she said. "That was not something that I was personally involved in on a basis like this."
Reid's intervention seems pretty curious ... or maybe not, considering Melgen's support for Democrats over the years. Menendez wasn't Melgen's only target for donations, even in the US Senate; he poured money into the coffers for Bill Nelson (FL), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Tom Harkin, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - $30,400 in 2009. Even Kendrick Meek got a taste in Florida's 2010 special election that resulted in Marco Rubio's election. Reid certainly knew where that money originated, and may have leaned on Sebelius to take the meeting. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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