Trump Takes the Fifth Amendment in New York Deposition

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Donald J. Trump declined to answer questions from the New York state attorney general’s office on Wednesday, a surprising gamble in a high-stakes legal interview that is likely to determine the course of a civil investigation into his company’s business practices.

In a statement released shortly after the questioning began on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, explaining that he “declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/10/nyregion/trump-testimony-investigation-news

Nothing to hide, right Mr. Trump?!
 
Winner, winner! Who, besides me, bet Trump would plead the Fifth?

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Only criminals take the Fifth.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-tru...-resurfaces-allies-use-it-jan-6-panel-1660741

"You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" - Donald J. Trump
 
Trump is an asshole, but people who purport to love our ludicrously flawed constitution shouldn't be shitting on the Fifth Amendment.
The right to not testify against oneself is prevalent in just about every democracy.

Trump is a piece of shit, as are all of his admirers, supporters, and followers, but invoking the 5th Amendment is not one of the very many things for which he deserves condemnation,
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Trump is an asshole, but people who purport to love our ludicrously flawed constitution shouldn't be shitting on the Fifth Amendment.
The right to not testify against oneself is prevalent in just about every democracy.

Trump is a piece of shit, as are all of his admirers, supporters, and followers, but invoking the 5th Amendment is not one of the very many things for which he deserves condemnation,
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It is a civil suit.
 
BidenPresident said:
Trump definitely is a mobster.
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He liked to hang with gangsters and he ran the WH like mobsters run their criminal organizations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...b62e2c-9cad-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html
Trump’s résumé is rife with mob connections
By David Von Drehle August 10, 2018
...the president ought to know: He has spent plenty of time in mobbed-up milieus. As many journalists have documented — the late Wayne Barrett and decorated investigator David Cay Johnston most deeply — Trump’s trail was blazed through one business after another notorious for corruption by organized crime.

New York construction, for starters. In 1988, Vincent “the Fish” Cafaro of the Genovese crime family testified before a U.S. Senate committee concerning the Mafia’s control of building projects in New York. Construction unions and concrete contractors were deeply dirty, Cafaro confirmed, and four of the city’s five crime families worked cooperatively to keep it that way.

This would not have been news to Trump, whose early political mentor and personal lawyer was Roy Cohn, consigliere to such dons as Fat Tony Salerno and Carmine Galante. After Cohn guided the brash young developer through the gutters of city politics to win permits for Trump Plaza and Trump Tower, it happened that Trump elected to build primarily with concrete rather than steel. He bought the mud at inflated prices from S&A Concrete, co-owned by Cohn’s client Salerno and Paul Castellano, boss of the Gambino family.

Coincidence? Fuhgeddaboudit....
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NiftyNiblick said:
Trump is an asshole, but people who purport to love our ludicrously flawed constitution shouldn't be shitting on the Fifth Amendment.
The right to not testify against oneself is prevalent in just about every democracy.

Trump is a piece of shit, as are all of his admirers, supporters, and followers, but invoking the 5th Amendment is not one of the very many things for which he deserves condemnation,
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there is nothing flawed in our constitution, except for people who believe freedom is too dangerous for others.
 
archives said:
In addition to those that believe Trump can use and abuse it to do just about anything he wants
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Agreed. Those who attacked or materially supported the coup on 1/6 are enemies of the Constitution and should be treated accordingly.
 
By noon on Wednesday, the northeast corner of the block underneath the skyscraper where Trump was being questioned filled with a few dozen gawkers. Some, appearing to be tourists, stayed for hours. Others, looking like they work in the area, paused only briefly. Many took photos of the scene. A few took selfies and videos of themselves in front of a background of 28 Liberty, or the large media scrum in encased in crowd fencing by the secret service across the street. None of the spectators carried Trump signs.

nytimes
 
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