Sarah Arkin, a senior staffer with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testified as a government witness at a trial over bribes of hundreds of thousands of…
A Senate staffer testified at a bribery trial that planning for Sen. Bob Menendez ’s 2021 trip to Egypt and Qatar got “weird” after the Democrat directed that Egypt be included in the process, a Senate staffer testified Monday.
In her testimony, Arkin said Menendez had asked Senate staff to reach out to an individual at the Egyptian embassy who they didn't know as they planned the weeklong trip to both countries, even though such excursions were usually planned through the State Department and U.S. authorities. Later, Arkin said, she was told Menendez was “very upset” after he'd been notified that two Egyptians, including Egypt's ambassador, had complained that she notified Egyptian officials that Menendez would not meet with Egypt's president during the trip “under any circumstances.” She said she was told that the senator didn't want her to go on the trip.
“It was weird,” she said. Arkin said she was “not an idiot” and “would not have phrased anything that way” by saying the senator would not meet a foreign president of a nation important to the United States “under any circumstances.”
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