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Stone tells House Judiciary to "pound sand"; brags about it. (Original Post)
triron
Mar 2019
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csziggy
(34,139 posts)1. 'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth?' Trump said
If youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth? Trump said years after invoking it himself
By Kristine Phillips
May 23, 2017
President Trump and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn have lambasted political opponents for taking the Fifth Amendment.
But at different times in the past, both men have exercised the constitutional right that protects them from self-incrimination.
Flynn did so Monday, when he refused to comply with a Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena to turn over documents pertaining to any contacts he had with Russian officials. The committee is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump himself invoked the Fifth Amendment in 1990, during his bitter and public divorce from his first wife, Ivana Trump. The real estate mogul took the Fifth to avoid answering questions about adultery; according to Wayne Barrett's Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth, the Fifth Amendment is Trump's favorite and allowed him to not answer a total of 97 deposition questions that were mostly about other women.
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/?utm_term=.82f1de86354f
By Kristine Phillips
May 23, 2017
President Trump and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn have lambasted political opponents for taking the Fifth Amendment.
But at different times in the past, both men have exercised the constitutional right that protects them from self-incrimination.
Flynn did so Monday, when he refused to comply with a Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena to turn over documents pertaining to any contacts he had with Russian officials. The committee is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump himself invoked the Fifth Amendment in 1990, during his bitter and public divorce from his first wife, Ivana Trump. The real estate mogul took the Fifth to avoid answering questions about adultery; according to Wayne Barrett's Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth, the Fifth Amendment is Trump's favorite and allowed him to not answer a total of 97 deposition questions that were mostly about other women.
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/?utm_term=.82f1de86354f
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,899 posts)2. So by doing that, didn't he violate the gag order *again*?
He just can't help himself.
triron
(22,026 posts)3. That thought came to my mind as well. Maybe we will hear from the judge soon?
DontBooVote
(901 posts)4. Who will kiss his ass once again and nothing will be done, yet again!