Former Michigan governor takes the Fifth on the witness stand

[SouthBayDem]

Source: Michigan Radio

Former Governor Rick Snyder invoked his Fifth Amendment right several times during a federal court hearing Thursday in Ann Arbor.

Snyder spent less than five minutes on the witness stand in a civil trial related to the Flint water crisis.

The trial involves damage claims on behalf of four Flint children who are suing two engineering firms hired as consultants on the city’s water system. It’s referred to as a bellwether trial, since it may serve as a guide for future lawsuits related to the Flint water crisis.

Defense attorneys wanted to ask a variety of questions of former Governor Snyder about his role during the Flint water crisis. But on the witness stand, Snyder would only say “based on the advice of counsel, I would exercise my Fifth Amendment right.”

Read more: https://www.michiganradio.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2022-06-30/former-michigan-governor-takes-the-fifth-on-the-witness-stand

[Firestorm49]

1. What an ass. Quick, Rick, run for cover!

[Sanity Claws]

2. Fucking criminal

Poisoning children.

[TheRealNorth]

6. It wasn' t the kids of his voters....

His voters probably approve the poisoning of POC.

[GReedDiamond]

16. That's OK, because they were post-born children. NT

[OnlinePoker]

3. So, according to Trumpster logic, he's guilty.

"If you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth?"

[catbyte]

7. No kidding about Engler.

I thought he was the worst we were going to do until Rick "The Dictator" Snyder came along. It was akin to how I once thought that Bush/Cheney were the worst the country could do. Then 2016 happened. How naive of me.

[catbyte]

5. Yeah, I would expect nothing less of that weaselly lying weasel

Apologies to actual furry, four-legged weasels.

[riversedge]

8. plus plus #1

[llmart]

9. That's the standard republican defense when caught doing something criminal.

So many Michiganders fell for his "I'm just a geeky sort of guy. One touch nerd." Or whatever his stupid meme was that got him elected. Even a fairly staunch liberal Democrat that I worked with voted for him. I remember looking at him and saying, "Are you kidding me? You voted for Snyder?"

[MichMan]

11. Democratic crossover votes is why he won the primary.

Sometimes trying to influence the other party's primarily can have unintended consequences

[Mickju]

10. He should have been in prison long before now.

[mountain grammy]

12. That fucking coward asshole.

[Pepsidog]

13. Coward.

[Leith]

14. That criminal murderous coward

and the monster has no remorse.

[weissmam]

15. another

COWARD