Jon Stewart respectfully asks Senator Bob Menendez, how dumb is you?

It’s hard out there for corrupt politicians trying to make a name for themselves these days. Imagine trying to get some eyeballs on the cartoonish corruption of members of Congress when the former president is on trial for defrauding voters by covering up hush money payments to a porn star who allegedly spanked his little bottom with a magazine. That’s the position Trump has put poor New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez in.

Senator Menendez is one of the original American heroes of congressional corruption, and he’s been working overtime to outdo himself. Now on trial for the second time in the last decade, Menendez stands accused of accepting cash and gold bribes in exchange for political windfalls that benefit a few New Jersey businessmen. The evidence is comically apparent, too. Authorities found boots stuffed with cash, trash bags containing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and, most infamously, gold bars. As if that wasn’t bad enough, his web history also includes a search for “How much is one kilo of gold worth?”