As federal corruption charges against Senator Robert Menendez marinated over the weekend, one interesting development is that, as Lauren Fox reports, his allies in the pro-Israel movement are getting more aggressive about insinuating that the charges are a politically motivated gambit. One problem with this conspiracy theory is that the people raising questions — the Israel Project’s Josh Block says it “has the appearance of being politically motivated,” and Christians United for Israel’s David Brog deems it “suspicious” — don’t have any evidence.

But a second problem is that the theory makes no sense. The governor of New Jersey is a Republican. If Menendez goes down, he’ll be replaced until a special election by someone who is equally hostile to Obama’s approach to the Iranian nuclear deal but also hostile to his entire domestic agenda.

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