let's see if he's a tough guy when he finds out he's looking at 20 years or so.

I like Lieu, but pleading the Fifth cannot be taken as an admission of guilt. That is a principle that goes beyond this situation.

“The mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”

Lieu doesn't reference that anyway, he just makes the assertion.

plead the Fifth in a civil case. It's not like a congressional hearing.

that could be incriminating. Showing you are guilty is not a predicate for pleading the Fifth.

But by last year, Trump was singing a different tune: During the presidential election, he repeatedly slammed former staffers for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton who took the Fifth during a congressional probe into her use of a private email server.

Computer specialist Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department employee who had helped set up Clinton's private email server, asserted the Fifth more than 130 times in June to avoid answering deposition questions from lawyers with the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch. Two computer experts contracted to handle Clinton's email server took the Fifth months later — and two Clinton lawyers who spoke to FBI investigators got immunity for turning over laptops.

Trump was not impressed.

“The mob takes the Fifth,” he said at an Iowa campaign rally in September. “If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/23/if-youre-innocent-why-are-you-taking-the-fifth-trump-said-years-after-invoking-it-himself/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.89fa43d82c67

is on Cohen flipping to save his ass.