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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump: "If youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"
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http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/334518-flynn-to-decline-senate-subpoena-invoke-fifth-amendment-report
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Trump: "If youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" (Original Post)
kpete
May 2017
OP
IMO, it's bit dishonest to insinuate pleading the fifth equates to being presumptivy guilty.
JoeStuckInOH
May 2017
#8
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)1. Yeah, Mr. Transparency
underpants
(182,877 posts)3. Trump is like Hallmark. There's a former tweet for every occasion
Something I read over the weekend.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)5. The best Hallmark ever.
what mob?
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)6. Classic
Yeah. Why, Mike?
Bet Trump never realized words could be such ass-biters in politics.
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)7. He doesn't really care.
Nor will he admit to the hypocrisy. To him every single interaction appears to be unique and whatever outcome favors him, is the correct outcome. I would venture to call it delusional. Unfortunately, his supporters are in the folies a deux with him.
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)9. They all live in their own
little racist ignorant reality.
JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)8. IMO, it's bit dishonest to insinuate pleading the fifth equates to being presumptivy guilty.
Not saying Flynn is in in anyway innocent... but I really don't like people getting beat up for pleading the fifth. Also, at best this is a delay tactic in the Flynn/Trump situation. Too many people involved for "The Fifth" to sweep this under the rug.
Here are a few great youtube videos from a law professor about the Fifth Amendment: