House Democrats don’t want to talk about Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat now under criminal indictment. But they’re upfront about one thing: His case, they say, is nothing like disgraced former Rep. George Santos’.
The Department of Justice indicted Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, last week on bribery and foreign influence charges related to $600,000 in alleged bribes from two foreign entities. Since then, hardly any Democrats have publicly condemned Cuellar.
“Where’s the presumption of innocence?” Rep. Jim Clyburn told NOTUS on Monday night. “His membership in the Congress is not our business. It has never been our business. Why would we start now?”