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"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" he asked at the time." | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday."
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“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\""
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Remember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT"
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Man I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york."
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Damn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner"
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there needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably "not recall" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all."
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Wake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts."
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What a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words..."
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And is cult is undeterred, | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,"
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Oh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face! | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers."
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“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked? | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\""
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Let me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!"
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Effing chicken 💩 | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩"
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But i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut"
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Trump is a cow. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!"
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From the article:
"This whole thing is very unfair," Trump says in the deposition video.
"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!
Now where have I heard this monologue before… | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony."
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During a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.
The twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.
Any and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit."
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Nope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump..."
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He is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people."
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Please rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.
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What so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth
Whose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth
O'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth
Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth
Gave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier."
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Trump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard"
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)
Newly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.
"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool," Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, "I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution."
After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5 | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?"
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Only CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth! | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5"
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Traitor coward. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!"
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It also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth"
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I would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times….. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass."
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Only the mob pleads the fifth... | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times….."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth..."
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I can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.
I guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth..."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche."
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A good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though"
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Pleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.
Seriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?"
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He always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.
What a complete moron.
I mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for?? | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting."
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Same person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit"
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Did anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick."
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I don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view? | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand."
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Fuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful"
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I would like to see a video of him saying "people that plead the fifth are guilty." And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men."
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AG: "Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?"
Trump: "I think?"
AG: "Is that a yes
Trump: "I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes"
AG: "This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?"
Trump: "No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?"
AG: "Correct."
He cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.
AG: " What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?"
Trump: "Very little."
*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.
AG suggests we go off the record.
Trump then begins to read his statement:
Trump: "This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair." He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a "total loser."
What a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.
Edit:
He also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.
Trump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race."
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This guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country"
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Wow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age."
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Trump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!
AG James
How do...
Trump:
Fif! I like to show all of you a secret document!
[pulls out a piece of paper saying "FiF"]
Trump:
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiif! | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!"
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He should t be allowed to say “same” or “fifth”. Instead he should be forced to go through the whole “Upon advice of counsel…”. Make it a pain in the ass for him too. | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!",
">\n\nOne two three four FIFFFF"
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Claiming the fifth by anyone is an admission of guilt. Trump even said that himself. Now do any of you Trump Republicans want to argue with me on that one? I think not! | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!",
">\n\nOne two three four FIFFFF",
">\n\nHe should t be allowed to say “same” or “fifth”. Instead he should be forced to go through the whole “Upon advice of counsel…”. Make it a pain in the ass for him too."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!",
">\n\nOne two three four FIFFFF",
">\n\nHe should t be allowed to say “same” or “fifth”. Instead he should be forced to go through the whole “Upon advice of counsel…”. Make it a pain in the ass for him too.",
">\n\nClaiming the fifth by anyone is an admission of guilt. Trump even said that himself. Now do any of you Trump Republicans want to argue with me on that one? I think not!"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!",
">\n\nOne two three four FIFFFF",
">\n\nHe should t be allowed to say “same” or “fifth”. Instead he should be forced to go through the whole “Upon advice of counsel…”. Make it a pain in the ass for him too.",
">\n\nClaiming the fifth by anyone is an admission of guilt. Trump even said that himself. Now do any of you Trump Republicans want to argue with me on that one? I think not!",
">\n\nI'm surprised he can count that high...."
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!",
">\n\nOne two three four FIFFFF",
">\n\nHe should t be allowed to say “same” or “fifth”. Instead he should be forced to go through the whole “Upon advice of counsel…”. Make it a pain in the ass for him too.",
">\n\nClaiming the fifth by anyone is an admission of guilt. Trump even said that himself. Now do any of you Trump Republicans want to argue with me on that one? I think not!",
">\n\nI'm surprised he can count that high....",
">\n\nGotta plead the fifth, cuz you can't plead the first!"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!",
">\n\nOne two three four FIFFFF",
">\n\nHe should t be allowed to say “same” or “fifth”. Instead he should be forced to go through the whole “Upon advice of counsel…”. Make it a pain in the ass for him too.",
">\n\nClaiming the fifth by anyone is an admission of guilt. Trump even said that himself. Now do any of you Trump Republicans want to argue with me on that one? I think not!",
">\n\nI'm surprised he can count that high....",
">\n\nGotta plead the fifth, cuz you can't plead the first!",
">\n\nOnly liars take the fifth - drumpf"
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)
Newly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.
"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool," Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, "I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution."
After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5 | [
"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!",
">\n\nOne two three four FIFFFF",
">\n\nHe should t be allowed to say “same” or “fifth”. Instead he should be forced to go through the whole “Upon advice of counsel…”. Make it a pain in the ass for him too.",
">\n\nClaiming the fifth by anyone is an admission of guilt. Trump even said that himself. Now do any of you Trump Republicans want to argue with me on that one? I think not!",
">\n\nI'm surprised he can count that high....",
">\n\nGotta plead the fifth, cuz you can't plead the first!",
">\n\nOnly liars take the fifth - drumpf",
">\n\nCan we lock him up now?"
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"“If you are innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - Former POTUS Donald J Trump, 2016.",
">\n\nThere needs to be a cut of each one of his fifths with him then saying this each time.",
">\n\nThere was actually an entire subreddit for it. It dropped in activity since he was no longer President",
">\n\nUnfortunately not active anymore",
">\n\n/r/ThanksObama",
">\n\nWhatever one might say about his presidency, Obama was always a gentleman. Remember when he read those tweets from people. Good sport.",
">\n\nAnd things weren't great but they were damn sure better. And a black president means other kids can see what is possible and society as a whole is better for it.",
">\n\nYes, regardless of his effectiveness, it was a good thing for that reason. He is a good man although I thought some of his actions were naive. Although I’ve never been potus so I shouldn’t criticize.",
">\n\nAll the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment",
">\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation. The only other people over heard talk like that IRL were employers who had no fucking clue how to run their business but always knew who to blame.",
">\n\n\nGod, it hurts me so much to hear him talk and remember that this clown lead our nation.\n\nGood. Keep that energy up. \nEvery single clown in this country who still supports this absolute buffoon needs to feel that energy too.\nMy coworkers and other people at work, I let em know what I think. I don't back down anymore. \nIt gets harder and harder for them to believe the election was stolen and people really didn't support Biden like we did. But we fucking did. We just don't go screaming about being \"Bideners\" like those clowns.",
">\n\nProblem is those clowns live that energy anything that bothers their perceived enemies is good even if it actively harms them…",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth \n~Donald J Trump",
">\n\nr/conservative is too busy reveling in legislating trans people's bodies in Utah and complaining about removing a slave owner's name from a university \nThey're obviously just busy with bigger issues \n(heaviest of sarcasm)",
">\n\ndont forget about hunter bidens dick pics!",
">\n\nAnd gas stoves",
">\n\nAnd fat, un-sexy M&M's.",
">\n\nDon't forget litter boxes in schools for kids who identify as cats.",
">\n\nBoy did that story fall off a cliff post-election or what? Reminds me of the caravans that always seem to roll around every August and September of an election year.",
">\n\nMy aunt emigrated to America like 50 years ago. She recently came back over to Scotland for a visit and was echoing the fox news qanon nonsense. Crying about feeling unsafe cause of the caravan of immigrants at the border. Reminding her she is an immigrant who got her citizenship through marriage just as she was about to be kicked out meant nothing to her. She also lives in New Jersey, not exactly close to the border.",
">\n\nMy family of Lebanese civil war refugees all voted for the guy who wanted to ban Syrian war refugees. Their literal neighbors. The brain worms conservatives catch are astounding.",
">\n\nDoes he put a Hot Pockets sleeve over his eyes when he gets the spray tan applied?",
">\n\nIt was revealed he doesn’t spray tan. He manually applies (or has someone apply) bronzer cream. Or at least that’s part of it. It’s likely he doesn’t like fingers near his eyes.",
">\n\nMichael Cohen said in interview that TFG does his own hair and makeup.",
">\n\nNo wonder it looks so shitty. That explains a lot.",
">\n\nIt's all he ever knew.",
">\n\nNo freaking way. There's no way you didn't just take a picture of Donald Trump and make the hair bigger.",
">\n\nIt's like a bad parody of The Klumps but Trump plays every family member.",
">\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings? Nope. That was Donald Trump, Hilary answered questions for 11 hours because she’s not a criminal traitor.",
">\n\n\nRemember when Hillary Clinton took the fifth amendment 400 times during the Benghazi hearings?\n\nDid you listen to Trump's little speech at the beginning when he said the proceedings were so unfair because candidate Letitia James said she would investigate Trump if she were elected and that's why he took the Fifth hundreds of times?\nOnce again hypocrisy shows no bounds with Trump. The biggest promise he made on his 2016 campaign trial was not only to investigate Hillary but throw her in jail. Somehow he didn't think that was unfair. \nTrump should learn what's good for the goose is good for the gander.",
">\n\nMy gf and I have been spending our evenings lately getting baked and watching South Park. I haven't watched this since I was probably 14. As we get deeper into later seasons it's shocking to me how Trump and Cartman are basically the same person.",
">\n\nCartman is manipulative and somewhat intelligent. Trump is just... proof that you do not need 2 brain cells to rub together to remain rich",
">\n\nWhen people started calling him bunker boy, he started show his face and being outside more and people stopped calling him that right away.He is playing this game. He keeps getting away with really crazy shit other wouldn't. I don't think he's \"smart\" by any means, but he definitely has been on fire for the past 30+ years and still going.",
">\n\nThe fact that he has gotten away with anything is more damning of the justice system than it is evidence of any skill on his part. Its like someone letting a sloth chase them down and eat them.",
">\n\nMaybe, but as he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a voter (unless he shoots a voter) what I mean is that anyone else that says that would most certainly get in trouble, him? He just keeps falling upwards. \nThere’s a reason why. Not that I know what it is.",
">\n\nIt’s my understanding that taking the fifth with regards to the upcoming civil procedings can be rather costly. Ain’t that just too bad.",
">\n\nTaking the 5th in civil cases can be considered admission of guilt by the jury. \nThis is NOT the case in criminal proceedings, but taking the 5th in criminal doesn't look good to a jury either.",
">\n\nIn criminal cases, the judge typically instructs the jury they can't hold taking the fifth against the defendant. That isn't the case for civil suits.",
">\n\nSure, but the judge instructing the jury to not take into account things they have seen and heard is pretty close to worthless.",
">\n\nI don't know if you have served on a jury, but many take those instructions seriously. While it maybe could influence you internally, you can't use it in your rationale to other jurors, which is where the problem lies.",
">\n\nI have served on a jury. The jurors can absolutely claim to take those instructions seriously. That doesn't mean that they are actually able to do so - human nature pretty much means that they can't.\nThere have been studies done on this. They generally conclude that people can't disregard information even if they want to, sometimes attempting to do so will push them farther the other way, and sometimes being told not to consider something makes it a much bigger deal than if it wasn't mentioned.",
">\n\nNot being forced to bear witness against oneself is a great feature of the US Constitution.\nVery publicly saying that only the guilty plead the 5th, then pleading the 5th yourself, stinks like fermented garbage water.",
">\n\nConsidering he sometimes smells like soiled diaper, no one will notice.",
">\n\nSometimes?",
">\n\nThose being the times after his assistant has changed and cleaned him, before he's rage-shit himself again.",
">\n\nThat's hilarious, but is there actually a legit source for this?",
">\n\n“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment,” Donald Trump said in 2016. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\nAnd what about 'lock'er up' Hillary who spend grueling hours in front of Congress answering EVERY DAMN question?\nI don't even have to type anymore about his being a pos, as these things are self evident so so so much except to ~30-35% of this country that are members of a damn cult.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-The Gang Pleads the Fifth-",
">\n\nThat would be a 10/10 cold open",
">\n\n\nOnce the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record.\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \nJust over a month later, on Sept. 21, James announced her office's lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and his company, accusing them of a long-running scheme to inflate the value of their properties. The Trumps have denied wrongdoing.\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution. \n\"This will be my answer to any further questions.\"\nSenior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace, of the attorney general's office, noted \"for the record\" that the statement was \"lengthy,\" and that \"obviously, we disagree with a lot of the characterizations.\" Wallace then began his questioning, which would comprise the bulk of the deposition.\nAt the outset, Trump responded to three questions by saying, \"For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.\" \nWallace then told Trump he could just say, \"same answer\" — \"to speed things up.\" \nTrump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to sources. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\nDuring one section of questioning, Wallace asked Trump about his Statements of Financial Condition, submitted every year since 2011. In February 2022, the accounting firm that prepared them recanted its work and said those reports \"should no longer be relied upon.\"\n\"The valuations contained in this document reflect false and misleading valuation statements; is that correct?\" Wallace asked. \n\"Same answer,\" Trump replied.\nWas he \"aware\" they \"contained false and misleading statements\"?\n\"Same answer.\"",
">\n\n\n\"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nI wonder how long he had to practice that sentence, to not fuck it up.",
">\n\nIn civil proceedings, taking the fifth may be interpreted as an admission of guilt.",
">\n\nAdverse inference is the legal term",
">\n\nFascists are always cowards. They don't project strength, they hide behind it. They don't have ideas, they spread fear and panic about other people's ideas. They have no purpose to their power except to accumulate more of it.",
">\n\nFacts.",
">\n\nThe majority of NYers did not vote for Donald Trump because we knew all too well his history of being a conman, a fraud and a liar.\nWhat we didn't know was how gullible and easily conned a good portion of our nation is. There are a fuckton of fools easily parted with their cash out there. And apparently Trump was well aware of that fact.",
">\n\nNo but you don’t understand magical beings from heaven and Jesus are going to come down and JFK Junior will be VP and Donald will be president for life",
">\n\nIf that ever happens, I am all for chilling out with Satan on that cold day in hell",
">\n\nMaking threats about litigation just to fold and finally loses case. Tough guy turns out to be a whiner.",
">\n\nThis mf loathes the law so much, he would sue the DOJ for obstructing his criminal enterprise if he could. Zero morality garbage",
">\n\nDidn't he essentially do that when they were trying to get all the classified docs back from Mar a Lago?",
">\n\nHe and his entire family need to take the L and fuck off.",
">\n\nTrump: \"I will drain the swamp\"\nTrump is easily part of the swamp if not the worst part\nTrump: \"Anyone that invokes the fifth amendment is a criminal\"\nTrump invoked the 5th\nTrump: \"Anyone that mishandled classified documents should be in prison\"\nTrump mishandled classified documents (and worse than anyone caught before or after him)\n\"If I lose its because it's rigged\"\nTrump tried to rig the election by installing fake electors and his little maga wacko-insurrectionist-cult members attempted to subvert the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, with an overwhelming concensus that Trump incited it\nI think I'm sensing a pattern here...",
">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession.",
">\n\nHe is such a scum. He must be held accountable for the first time in his life probably. He needs to be made an example of.",
">\n\nAbsolutely. This needs to happen. He really needs to show he's not untouchable and needs to do hard time in prison.",
">\n\nAnd in a civil proceeding invoking the fifth CAN be seen as an admission of guilt. He’s either dumber then we thought, or has the most incompetent lawyers. I tend to think both apply.",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure his lawyers weighed the consequences of letting him talk vs what he did. \nThis guy would not only fail to provide any useful context on his actions in his defense, he would create entirely new legal problems he didn't already have, if he talked. \nThey honestly did a great job convincing him not to talk. We've seen his previous depositions where he did. It was bad.",
">\n\njust wanted to say thanks for posting your own articles, genuinely appreciate it",
">\n\nHe’s so dirty in so many areas the Fifth is the only answer he CAN give. Disgusting loser.",
">\n\nLock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up.",
">\n\nI'm just surprised he didn't work Hunter Biden into every response.",
">\n\n\nin the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation\n\ncivil cases the jury can use peoples responses of 'the 5th' against them. So... that isn't good for Trump.",
">\n\nThe only people still supporting this guy are people who are just like him",
">\n\nTwo things can be mutually true:\n\n\nThe 5th Amendment is your Constitutional right \n\n\nSaid individual has repeatedly bashed people who take said right to claim \"that means they are guilty\".\n\n\nVery clearly another case of hypocrisy that drives normal people crazy",
">\n\nExcept this is a civil case and pleading the 5th is equivalent to I’m guilty.",
">\n\nI still can’t understand how the intellectual water level is so low that half the country convinced themselves this guy isn’t the dumbest motherfucker to shit behind two shoes.",
">\n\nIf they have him on record saying \"you're guilty if you invoke the 5th\".. Can't they just take his 400 pleads of the 5th as admission of guilt?",
">\n\nWas anyone really expecting anything different?",
">\n\nI never expect him to say anything useful.",
">\n\nsoooo badly after all that I want the next question to be \n“Mr Trump, have you yourself said publicly dozens of times that only guilty people plead the fifth?”\n“same answer”",
">\n\nGuilty, guilty, guilty!",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\n\nIf you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?\n The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? \n-- Donald, I commit 15 crimes before breakfast, Trump",
">\n\nI have always wondered if the people who voted for him truly understand what a con man he is.",
">\n\nNope, because they are still backing him lol.",
">\n\nThat's not very alpha male of him.",
">\n\nIt was a perfect 5th.",
">\n\n\"only the mob takes the fifth.\"",
">\n\n“You see the mob takes the fifth\" - “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Donald J Trump, Iowa rally, 2016.",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”\n-Don “Bunker Grandpa” Trunk",
">\n\nDon’t only criminals take the 5th? I heard that somewhere",
">\n\nHe looks like a punished toddler.\nIt's not fair. I didn't do it. Your mean to me.",
">\n\nWhen his opponents plead the fifth it's because they have something to hide.\nWhen he does it its because it's political persecution.\nWhat a fucken hypocrite...",
">\n\nNot a large leap to the \"if You are innocent, you don't need to run from the police\"...\nAnybody having Trump running from the police on their 2023 bingo card?",
">\n\nHey donnie... thought only guilty people plead the 5th???? hypocritical orange turd",
">\n\nWhat an absolute pos",
">\n\nThe perfect campaign ad is the start where he says only guilty people plead the fifth, then for a solid minute it's him being asked questions and he repeat \"same answer\" from the first fifth take, and then it ends with \"and you think this man should run for president?“\nAnd that's the only ad you need against him in 2024.",
">\n\nWow not only the 45th but the 440 5th!",
">\n\nHuh. And here I thought only crooks pleaded the Fifth.",
">\n\nDear DJT,\nF*** your feelings!\nSincerely,\nA liberal.",
">\n\nBut you said only cowards plead the fifth?",
">\n\nDonald Trump declaring himself guilty af",
">\n\nWeakness personified.",
">\n\nWhat was it that he said about those who plead the 5th amendment ?",
">\n\nYeah, but not him dude … it’s different when he does it. /s",
">\n\n\"The only moral Taking The Fifth is my Taking The Fifth!\"",
">\n\nThis was civil not criminal. So, if civil, I thought pleading the 5th can be used against you. \"Adverse inferences\" are allowed if someone is pleading the 5th. \nEffectively, since civil cases are simply a 'more likely than not' threshold, you can effectively view pleading the 5th as suspicious as hell and use that to weigh towards 'more likely than not'.\n(Need a real lawyer to weigh in and tell me how right/wrong my stupid non-lawyer ass is)",
">\n\n\nHe began with a familiar refrain: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.\" He called James \"a renegade and out of control prosecutor\" and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices. \n\nIt's always so delicious when they use that defense because you know they literally have nothing else.",
">\n\nThe menace in his face and his dead eyes is revolting. Trump is textbook “end-stage psychopathy.” Anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy, etc) gets worse as people who have the disorder get older. Trump needs to be removed from society.",
">\n\nSeize all trump family assets via civil forfeiture. Or do rich people get treated differently in the US?",
">\n\nCrazy to think that an ex-president admitting, over 400 times, that his answers to questions under oath would incriminate him isn't a blockbuster news story, it's just Monday.",
">\n\n\"So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\" he asked at the time.\"",
">\n\n“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -DJT",
">\n\nRemember, in civil cases, refusing to answer the questions can be construed as guilt. This isn't criminal, so pleading the 5th just makes him look like hes hiding something. So this deposition is a gold mine for the state of new york.",
">\n\nMan I can't wait for the presidential campaigning to kick off. Trump doesn't seem like the type to not run and I dont see him getting locked up before then. It's going to be wild when he finally realized that the days where he could shoot someone in times square and get away with it are over. Call me a deviant if you want but sometimes there's nothing better than seeing the look on someone's face when they realize they've lost everything because they just weren't smart enough to walk away sooner",
">\n\nDamn that must have been so fucking boring for both parties lol. They knew nothing would be answered but still went through it all.",
">\n\nthere needs to be some threshold of how much of your life you can reasonably \"not recall\" before you're unable to hold public office due or outright ruled incompetent... either you can remember and testify to events or you can't and have no business presiding over said events.",
">\n\nWake me up when he’s charged with a crime. Eric Garner was choked out by NYC cops and died for selling loose cigarettes, with no day in court, yet this asshole has spent half his miserable existence on this planet hiding behind his lawyers and the courts.",
">\n\n\"Only criminals take the 5th\" Trumps very own words...",
">\n\nWhat a f:/$ loser. A pathetic human disgrace. Waste of any sperm. The definition of satanic belief and symbolism.",
">\n\nAnd is cult is undeterred,",
">\n\nFor all the s*** he talks, he sure snowflaked up. Like his snowflake followers.",
">\n\nOh man, when are we gonna be done with this guy?? I’m so tired of hearing his name, hearing him speak, seeing his face!",
">\n\n“Donnie, if you’re so perfect and innocent, why pleading the fifth repeatedly, “ Hillary asked?",
">\n\nThey shouldn't let him get away with \"same answer.\" He should have to say it. \"I plead my fifth amendment right against self incrimination.\"",
">\n\n“Innocent people don’t plead the 5th” is a famous quote from… drum roll… Trump!",
">\n\nLet me put this as eloquently as I can, fuck this guy",
">\n\nEffing chicken 💩",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is the worst thing\nPleading the fifth is the best thing\nthe hypocrisy is the point. Being a brazen hypocrite is what makes fascists nut",
">\n\nBut i thought only wiseguys and guilty peolle to the fifth? Just another lie from our former President. Traitor Trump.",
">\n\nTrump is a cow.",
">\n\nLock him up!",
">\n\nI am honestly surprised that a judge found Trump mentally competent enough to give sworn testimony.",
">\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\"This whole thing is very unfair,\" Trump says in the deposition video.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a great fool. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not answer the question in front of me!\n\nNow where have I heard this monologue before…",
">\n\nDuring a deposition in a civil suit, by claiming the 5th Amendment you are subject to what’s called “adverse inference,” which means the prosecution’s case gets better every time you do.\nThe twice-impeached ex-president “plead the fifth,” over 400 times.\nAny and all instances of him pleading the fifth will now be used against him in the civil suit.",
">\n\nOnly criminals plea the fifth - Drump...",
">\n\nNope! I do it believe it. Trump hates the 5th , he said it is there for guilty people.",
">\n\nHe is as slimy as the come, how in the hell he ever was American President,makes me sick. He woke the underbelly of this country, An absolute concern for our future. Please shut him up, every time he opens up his mouth,he looks crazier.",
">\n\nPlease rise if you are able and join in singing Trump's National Anthem.\nOh, say can you Fifth, by the dawn's early Fifth\nWhat so proudly we Fifth, at the twilight's Fifth Fifth Fifth\nWhose broad Fifths and bright Fifths, through the perilous Fifth\nO'er the Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, were so Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nFifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nGave Fifth Fifth Fifth night, that our Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth\nO, say does that Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fi-i-i-ifth Fi-ifth\nO'er the land of the Fifth, and the Fifth of the brave",
">\n\nTrump did say only the guilty take the fifth before he took.the fifth himself.\nTrump double standard",
">\n\nAnyone have a link to the video thats not on their site?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5",
">\n\nOnly CRIMINALS plead the 5th, right Donny? We heard it from the jackass’s mouth!",
">\n\nTraitor coward.",
">\n\nIt also shows the saying is true: we all create our own hell. Here’s a withered tired old man who is caught in a trap he’s made for himself. Abusing the system and courts his entire life and thinking himself a pro, now he will do this repeatedly until the day he dies.\nKarma will get you. Sooner or later, you’ll pay one way or another.",
">\n\nHe's a stain.",
">\n\nHe’s incapable of telling the truth",
">\n\nI guess he thinks that if he doesn't tell them anything that the problem will just go away. What a dumbass.",
">\n\nI would think it’d make a fun campaign video for someone - him saying only the mob take the fifth amendment followed by him taking it 400 times…..",
">\n\nOnly the mob pleads the fifth...",
">\n\nI am dreaming of a world without Trump’s face, voice, tweets, quotes, 💩plastered all over mass media and social media…\nIs it too much to ask??? When? When will he go away??!",
">\n\nI can't wait to hear him say that he never said that only guilty people take the 5th.\nI guarantee you that he will say that only smart people do it, because he's insane and his supporters will cheer.",
">\n\nPerhaps he meant \"drink\" a fifth...",
">\n\nWhat a douche.",
">\n\nTrump: Only guilty people plead the fifth!\nAlso Trump: it's fine for me, though",
">\n\nA good video compilation of him saying “Only guilty people plead the fifth” and him pleading the fifth should be playing on EVERY media platform in the fucking galaxy.",
">\n\nPleading the fifth is all he ever does when he's not treating his depositions like a rally, ranting about the 2020 election, Biden, etc.\nSeriously, the only recent deposition info I've seen regarding Trump where he wasn't pleading the fifth was in the E. Jean Carroll case. There he was just spouting off all the same old BS he tells his supporters in his safe space rallies, as well as threatening to sue everyone in the room.\nDude's not doing too well.",
">\n\nDidn't he say only criminals plead the fifth?",
">\n\nI've never heard so many quotes in one statement:\n\nI have an article here that says quote Michael Cohen is a quote loser and a quote liar...\n\nI don't think he quite understands the concept of quoting.",
">\n\nHe always criticizes others non-stop. UNLESS it's him doing the same thing for his own advantage, then he says he's a genius.\nWhat a complete moron.\nI mean, he was president and up to that point in his deposition last year he didn't have a clue what the 5th amendment was for??",
">\n\nSame person who as a candidate said only someone with something to hide uses the fifth amendment, Then he finally got to a point where the courts had enough of his using lawyers and countersuits to delay testimony or deposition. He changed his toon rather quickly.",
">\n\nIs it the light on my phone or is he growing a Hitler moustache?",
">\n\n\"If you are innocent, do not remain silent. You look guilty as hell!\"\n-Donald Trump",
">\n\nDidn’t someone count how many times he took the 5th? Wasn’t it like 455 times?",
">\n\n1,2,3,4,5 i remember that Dave Chappell skit",
">\n\nCommitting tax fraud and pleading the faith proves that I’m smart. People are saying the best business people plead the 5th.",
">\n\nDid anyone expect anything else??? And of course the 5th is keeping quite to not implicate self. Ironically Hillary testified for 11hrs and never once pleaded 5th.",
">\n\n1-2-3-4-fif",
">\n\nI'll watch an advertisement to see him being handcuffed fingerprinted and booked. I'm not wasting a second watching this prick.",
">\n\nFucking weasely coward. I hope he shits his pants on the stand.",
">\n\nI don't mean this to be a controversial or rhetorical question, but does pointing to hypocrisy ever work with conservative/republican/authoritian types or does it just briefly silence them until they've found a new thing to point to thats supports their view?",
">\n\nFuck Trump but let's not make a mockery of the 5th amendment, it's everyone's right to use and it and should be so there's no need to shame it's use because that's how public opinion gets moved over time and then 15 years from now it's gone. I'm aware that that he's blasted it's use before, but it's a good thing to have and use.",
">\n\nI'm still surprised America didn't burn in an inferno considering an ape was their head of state for 4 years.",
">\n\nOnly bums plead the 5th.... or was it criminals?",
">\n\nMy man looks like he's got a 5 o clock shadow with that botched makeup tan",
">\n\nIsn’t there video out there if him saying anyone who takes the fifth is obviously guilty?",
">\n\nSeems like the only way to shut him up is to depose him.",
">\n\nThe lack of joy in his face is wonderful",
">\n\nHis hair looks like half eaten banana flavored cotton candy.",
">\n\nI would like to see a video of him saying \"people that plead the fifth are guilty.\" And all that shit he said, mixed in between clips of him pleading the fifth.",
">\n\nWeak man for even weaker men.",
">\n\n\"Only guilty people take the 5th\" Donald J Trump",
">\n\nAG: \"Anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding, do you understand that?\"\nTrump: \"I think?\"\nAG: \"Is that a yes\nTrump: \"I don't know what I did wrong, but I understand, yes\"\nAG: \"This investigation is confidential, we request that you not discuss this matter, your testimony today and any documents you have produced or may produce with anyone other than your attorneys. Do you understand that sir?\"\nTrump: \"No, when you say confidential, we are not allowed to talk about this to the press?\"\nAG: \"Correct.\"\nHe cant even make it through the first question without the AG asking to go off the record.\nAG: \" What have you done today to prepare for this meeting?\"\nTrump: \"Very little.\"\n*Trump's attorney advises he read the statement prepared, which he refuses to do.\nAG suggests we go off the record.\nTrump then begins to read his statement:\nTrump: \"This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. There has been another president and perhaps another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated, like President Donald J. Trump. What Leticia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and a front to the NY State tax payers, and a violation of the solemn rights of the US Constitution. She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willing produced. We willingly produced these documents. She announced that she quote 'was obsessed with taking me on', taking me on folks..... This whole thing is very unfair.\" He then goes into talking about Michael Cohen being a \"total loser.\"\nWhat a fucking wanker man, this is the former president of the free world acting like an petulant child. I will enjoy watching him squirm in more depositions like this, Leticia James plus the Georgia election need to never let up on this disgrace. May god do the world a favor and deliver the justice and accountability this man has managed to avoid for his entire lifetime.\n\nEdit:\n\nHe also brings up how he did once reference those who bring up the 5th are part of the mafia, and now he understands why someone would do that, and anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not take the 5th. Because of course, this asshole cant stand by anything other than self serving options.\n\nTrump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times during this deposition and did not answer 1, not a single question. He's a loser and a coward.",
">\n\nAnyone who uses the 5th amendment should just be charged, because they are clearly lying.",
">\n\nI think at this point they can get away with calling him “disgraced former president”",
">\n\nthis fuck has got to go. at this point, i'd settle for him just dying of natural causes",
">\n\nhm no post about this on r/conservative wonder why",
">\n\nGarbage human",
">\n\nOne of the biggest assholes and golf cheaters of the 20th and 21st century.",
">\n\nIt’s all fun and games until you jump into the ring",
">\n\nThe most successful conman in the HISTORY of the human race.",
">\n\nVideo of a traitor…\nFIFY\nTraitor needs to be attached anytime that piece of shits name is said.",
">\n\nThis guy is like the most buoyant turd I’ve ever tried to flush. I am literally the person he was talking, flushing the toilet five or six times, knowing with each flush that the nasty mother fucker was going to slime its way back and rise to the top of the bowl, like a proud shit-orca whale. I lift the seat, some days the turd isn’t there, but I’m sure I hear it still, rumbling in the plumbing.",
">\n\nWhat an embarrassment to this country",
">\n\nHe said himself that only the guilty take the fifth.",
">\n\nWow..in his own words only criminals plead the 5th.",
">\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When someone acts like they have something to hide, it’s usually because they’re hiding something.",
">\n\nOnly the guilty plead the fifth- Trump",
">\n\nOnly guilty people plead the fifth.",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Nothing will ever happen to him. He'll just continue to evade and dodge until he dies of old age.",
">\n\nMerrick the Meek and Mild certainly is not going to do anything.",
">\n\nTrump: There are! I say there are so many amendments in the constitution of the United States of Americaaaa! I can only choose one! I can only choose ooooooone! I plead the fif! I plead the fif! FIVE! 1,2,3,4, fiiiif! Anything you say! FIIIF! Go ahead and ask me a question!\nAG James\nHow do...\nTrump:\nFif! I like to show all of you a secret document!\n[pulls out a piece of paper saying \"FiF\"]\nTrump:\nFiiiiiiiiiiiiif!",
">\n\nOne two three four FIFFFF",
">\n\nHe should t be allowed to say “same” or “fifth”. Instead he should be forced to go through the whole “Upon advice of counsel…”. Make it a pain in the ass for him too.",
">\n\nClaiming the fifth by anyone is an admission of guilt. Trump even said that himself. Now do any of you Trump Republicans want to argue with me on that one? I think not!",
">\n\nI'm surprised he can count that high....",
">\n\nGotta plead the fifth, cuz you can't plead the first!",
">\n\nOnly liars take the fifth - drumpf",
">\n\nCan we lock him up now?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nNewly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.\n\"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,\" Trump said, adding that on the advice of counsel, \"I respectfully decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\nAfter the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Trump^#1 question^#2 New^#3 attorney^#4 answer^#5"
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