We kick around indicted New Jersey Democratic senator Bob Menendez a lot, and with good reason. He certainly looks guilty as sin in his corruption trial, and the senator’s latest defense is that he kept more than $480,000 in cash and more than $100,000 in gold bars lying around the house because of “intergenerational trauma.”

A psychiatrist who evaluated Menendez would be expected to testify at trial that he “suffered intergenerational trauma stemming from his family’s experience as refugees, who had their funds confiscated by the Cuban government and were left with only a small amount of cash that they had stashed away in their home,” the senator’s lawyers said last month in a letter to prosecutors.

Yeah, good luck with that, pal.

But another Democrat in Congress just got indicted on corruption charges, and folks on the right might be less eager to focus on this because it’s arguably the most conservative Democrat in the House, Henry Cuellar of Texas. Cuellar insists he’s innocent.

Cuellar’s been tough on the border and a critic of the Biden administration. By the standards of House Democrats, Cuellar is pro-life and pro-gun. During the Trump years, Cuellar voted with the Trump administration’s preferred position 40 percent of the time, making him the most “pro-Trump” House Democrat by a wide margin.

But then there was that strange campaign donation from a figure connected to the notorious Zeta cartel.

It will be a shame if Cuellar turns out to be a crook, as causes like a secure border, the protection of the unborn, and the Second Amendment need every ally they can get, including ones with a “D” after their name.

As our James Lynch reports, Cuellar said he still intends to run for reelection in Texas’s competitive 28th district. Democrats held their primary in March; Cuellar won unopposed.