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turbinetree

(24,720 posts) Sat Dec 11, 2021, 04:32 PM Dec 2021

Trump may be trapped into pleading the 5th during January deposition: former US Attorney

By Tom Boggioni
Published December 11, 2021

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Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade stated that Donald Trump may be put in the unenviable and embarrassing position of invoking his 5th Amendment rights to not incriminate himself when he sits down with the state of New York investigators in January.

The former president is slated to sit down for a deposition in mid-January to discuss claims he made about the value of his properties with the threat of criminal charges also hanging over him.

Speaking with host Alex Witt, McQuade said Trump might find himself cornered while under questioning.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-deposition-2655998922/

I just wonder if he is going to try and plead the sixth or the fourth without saying the fifth....and then go on his troll sites and say that he didn't plead the fifth in his mind and to his follower's......

To bad New York doesn't allow camera's in the court room....

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Trump may be trapped into pleading the 5th during January deposition: former US Attorney (Original Post) turbinetree Dec 2021 OP

I always thought FarPoint Dec 2021 #1

One still has the right to be represented in a deposition w/ a lawyer, and to plead the fifth. ... marble falls Dec 2021 #3

He'll keep up venting until he lands in a hospital with Cardiosomething Oranother ... marble falls Dec 2021 #2

"be put in"?!? tRump put himself in his awful position. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #4

LOL, well that maybe the prudent thing to do, but does anyone really think his narcissism... Thomas Hurt Dec 2021 #5

His ego won't allow it Azathoth Dec 2021 #6

FarPoint

(12,443 posts)

1. I always thought

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 04:37 PM

Dec 2021

That one still must answer all questions in a Deposition ...

marble falls

(57,235 posts)

3. One still has the right to be represented in a deposition w/ a lawyer, and to plead the fifth. ...

Reply to FarPoint (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 05:10 PM

Dec 2021

... I understand that for Grand Juries, one gets no lawyer, but can plead the fifth.

marble falls

(57,235 posts)

2. He'll keep up venting until he lands in a hospital with Cardiosomething Oranother ...

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 05:05 PM

Dec 2021

Jr will be left to lead, and begin to look like a human pair of chattering teeth:

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,043 posts)

4. "be put in"?!? tRump put himself in his awful position. . . . nt

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 05:24 PM

Dec 2021

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

5. LOL, well that maybe the prudent thing to do, but does anyone really think his narcissism...

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 05:53 PM

Dec 2021

is going to let him say nothing? Does anyone think he will really pass up the opportunity to lie, whine and b*tch about how he is the victim?

Azathoth

(4,611 posts)

6. His ego won't allow it

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 06:01 PM

Dec 2021

He thinks of himself as the greatest talker and deal maker who ever lived. No way he'll take the Fifth and stay quiet.

Even if hw invokes his right, he'll implicitly waive it in the next breath by trying to explain it away with a torrent of inept lies.

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