Forget the damning details in the 68-page federal indictment charging New Jersey’s senior senator Bob Menendez with using his office to benefit a Florida eye doctor in exchange for nearly $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions.
Voters don’t spend much time reading indictments.
But the combined headline, text and photos served up in classic New York Post-style on Saturday could leave a lasting and, perhaps, politically fatal impression.
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