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(CBS News)   Oh I'd plead the fifth 200 times, and plead the fifth 200 more, just to be TFG who pleaded the fifth 400 times to Letitia James as questioner   (cbsnews.com) divider line
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arrogantbastich [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 12:38:22 PM  
DA DA DA-DAH
 
TheHighlandHowler [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 12:45:08 PM  
All the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment
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markie_farkie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 12:49:43 PM  
And this was a civil deposition which means the 5th is essentially an admission of guilt or culpability in financial misdeeds, and will be used to assess fines, and criminal referrals can also result from that if there's probable cause to investigate further based on his non-answers.
 
Psychopusher [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 1:21:42 PM  
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Can we break for McDonald's?  No?  Okay.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
 
King Something [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 1:24:31 PM  
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Private_Citizen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 1:33:40 PM  
You ever see those stroke victims that can only say one thing? I hope he strokes out and can only say "Fifth".
That way you can ask him anything, such as "Did you poop your pants while Hunter plowed Melania?" And he can only answer "Fifth!!"
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 1:43:30 PM  

Private_Citizen: You ever see those stroke victims that can only say one thing? I hope he strokes out and can only say "Fifth".
That way you can ask him anything, such as "Did you poop your pants while Hunter plowed Melania?" And he can only answer "Fifth!!"


This is what I hope for. 
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educated [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 1:48:56 PM  
Well done but f*ck you for the earworm.
 
Primum non nocere [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 2:33:50 PM  

Private_Citizen: You ever see those stroke victims that can only say one thing? I hope he strokes out and can only say "Fifth".
That way you can ask him anything, such as "Did you poop your pants while Hunter plowed Melania?" And he can only answer "Fifth!!"


braveheart queen isabellas secret to longshanks dying
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Except Isabella is Vince McMahon telling Longhakes that Don Jr. is not his son.

Sorry for poor quality. Spick ahead to ~1:10 if need be.
 
Gin Buddy
2023-01-31 2:37:09 PM  

Primum non nocere: Spick ahead to ~1:10 if need be.



That sounds racist...
 
emersonbiggins
2023-01-31 2:37:39 PM  
Person, Woman, Man, Camera, Same Answer
 
red230
2023-01-31 2:38:38 PM  
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meat0918 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:38:59 PM  
Looks like missed a spray tan appointment to be deposed.
 
yakmans_dad
2023-01-31 2:39:05 PM  

Private_Citizen: You ever see those stroke victims that can only say one thing? I hope he strokes out and can only say "Fifth".
That way you can ask him anything, such as "Did you poop your pants while Hunter plowed Melania?" And he can only answer "Fifth!!"


I had a relative who, after her stroke, would say "yes" when she meant "no", laugh when she was sad, cry when she was happy. Her husband tried to get her TV in her room -- she was otherwise healthy -- but when the service people would come and ask her, "Is this the room we're supposed to hook up the TV in?" she'd say "No." and they'd go away.
 
Gin Buddy
2023-01-31 2:39:56 PM  

yakmans_dad: Private_Citizen: You ever see those stroke victims that can only say one thing? I hope he strokes out and can only say "Fifth".
That way you can ask him anything, such as "Did you poop your pants while Hunter plowed Melania?" And he can only answer "Fifth!!"

I had a relative who, after her stroke, would say "yes" when she meant "no", laugh when she was sad, cry when she was happy. Her husband tried to get her TV in her room -- she was otherwise healthy -- but when the service people would come and ask her, "Is this the room we're supposed to hook up the TV in?" she'd say "No." and they'd go away.


It never occurred to her to lie?
 
olorin604
2023-01-31 2:40:03 PM  

TheHighlandHowler: [YouTube video: All the Times Trump Bashed the Fifth Amendment]


Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect
 
Demetrius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:41:10 PM  
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Wookie Milson
2023-01-31 2:42:29 PM  
Reagan only managed to say some variation of "I don't recall" 124 times during his testimony, which I'm pretty sure makes Trump nearly four times as great at presidenting.
 
bighairyguy [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 2:44:01 PM  
Taking the Fifth Amendment is like abortion.  It's evil until you actually need it, then it's okay, and will go back to being evil tomorrow.
 
blondambition [OhFark]
2023-01-31 2:45:43 PM  
Gah! Look at that short fingered vulgarian trying to look all innocent.
 
foo monkey
2023-01-31 2:45:51 PM  

Gin Buddy: yakmans_dad: Private_Citizen: You ever see those stroke victims that can only say one thing? I hope he strokes out and can only say "Fifth".
That way you can ask him anything, such as "Did you poop your pants while Hunter plowed Melania?" And he can only answer "Fifth!!"

I had a relative who, after her stroke, would say "yes" when she meant "no", laugh when she was sad, cry when she was happy. Her husband tried to get her TV in her room -- she was otherwise healthy -- but when the service people would come and ask her, "Is this the room we're supposed to hook up the TV in?" she'd say "No." and they'd go away.

It never occurred to her to lie?


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Oysterman
2023-01-31 2:46:37 PM  
That's a lot of self-incriminating he's refusing to do.
 
Farking Clown Shoes [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 2:50:25 PM  
He wanted to take a few other amendments, too, but he can only count to 5.
 
palelizard
2023-01-31 2:51:24 PM  

Psychopusher: Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.
Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Can we break for McDonald's?  No?  Okay.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.  Same answer.


I am curious as to how many of those did he get through before he forgot what the original answer was, and just kept repeating "same answer".
 
LumpyProle
2023-01-31 2:52:55 PM  

arrogantbastich: DA DA DA-DAH


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AmbassadorBooze
2023-01-31 2:53:05 PM  
We should get rid of the fifth amendment.
 
Halfabee64
2023-01-31 2:55:14 PM  
I would have had a little fun with him and his "same answer" crap by throwing questions at him carefully designed to get under his skin without objection and provoke a denial.

Also, since this is a civil trial, a jury is free to infer criminality from all 400 questions he refused to answer so as NOT to incriminate himself, which is almost a distinction without a difference:  he's guilty vs we all know he's guilty and can confidently vote to convict.
 
happyheathn
2023-01-31 2:56:25 PM  
Sounds like another great campaign add
 
Halfabee64
2023-01-31 2:56:28 PM  

Halfabee64: I would have had a little fun with him and his "same answer" crap by throwing questions at him carefully designed to get under his skin without objection and provoke a denial.

Also, since this is a civil trial, a jury is free to infer criminality from all 400 questions he refused to answer so as NOT to incriminate himself, which is almost a distinction without a difference:  he's guilty vs we all know he's guilty and can confidently vote to convict.


Well not convict but find the defendant guilty.
 
2farknfunny
2023-01-31 2:57:43 PM  

blondambition: Gah! Look at that short fingered vulgarian trying to look all innocent.


I just love the phrase "short-fingered vulgarian" and I just hate the fact that it's relavent
 
sdd2000
2023-01-31 2:57:55 PM  
Since this is a civil case and not a criminal one (yet) a jury can under NY law be instructed that his invoking his 5th amendment rights can be considered and used to reach their conclusion. See for example Andrew Carothers, M.D., P.C. v Progressive Ins. Co., 150 AD3d 192

"While the Fifth Amendment accords an individual the privilege not to answer questions in a civil proceeding if the answers might incriminate the person in future criminal proceedings (see Baxter v Palmigiano, 425 US 308, 316 [1976]), a witness who asserts this Fifth Amendment privilege in a civil trial is not necessarily protected from consequences in the same manner as in a criminal trial. This Court has held that, in a civil case, failure to answer questions by a witness who is a party "may be considered by a jury in assessing the strength of evidence offered by the opposite party on the issue which the witness was in a position to controvert" (Marine Midland Bank v Russo Produce Co., 50 NY2d 31, 42 [1980]). In a civil trial, "an unfavorable inference may be drawn against a party from the exercise of the privilege against self-incrimination" (emphasis added)
 
Kris_Romm
2023-01-31 2:59:30 PM  
I plead the Fat... I mean the Fifth.
 
sdd2000
2023-01-31 2:59:50 PM  

Halfabee64: Halfabee64: I would have had a little fun with him and his "same answer" crap by throwing questions at him carefully designed to get under his skin without objection and provoke a denial.

Also, since this is a civil trial, a jury is free to infer criminality from all 400 questions he refused to answer so as NOT to incriminate himself, which is almost a distinction without a difference:  he's guilty vs we all know he's guilty and can confidently vote to convict.

Well not convict but find the defendant guilty.


liable

FTFY
 
lordjupiter
2023-01-31 3:02:14 PM  
This is EXACTLY how every innocent person behaves.
 
emersonbiggins
2023-01-31 3:04:30 PM  
Trump, the man who once cashed a 13-cent check, would like the jury to believe that his another man was able to swindle millions in free housing, tuition, and other goods from Trump while working as his company's CFO.
 
Aquapope
2023-01-31 3:07:34 PM  
Holy shiat, a black woman interrogating Donald Trump.  That has to go against everything Donnie thinks is good and right in the world.  Internally, he's a raging baboon throwing shat everywhere.  I hope somebody has one of those parabolic long-distance mics pointed at him so we can hear what he says as soon as he thinks nobody can hear what he says.

Cool.
 
Churchy LaFemme [OhFark]
2023-01-31 3:08:17 PM  

Exile On Beale Street: Private_Citizen: You ever see those stroke victims that can only say one thing? I hope he strokes out and can only say "Fifth".
That way you can ask him anything, such as "Did you poop your pants while Hunter plowed Melania?" And he can only answer "Fifth!!"

This is what I hope for. [media-amazon.com image 700x1079]


But maybe with a fart button instead of a bell...
 
groppet
2023-01-31 3:08:56 PM  
But I was told by the greatest president ever that only guilty people did that.
 
GrizzlyPouch
2023-01-31 3:09:05 PM  
Shocking a guy would plead the 5th to a DA who campaigned on convicting him of a crime.  That's her stated purpose.

She didn't come out and say I'm going to investigate, see if there's evidence for anything.  She said I'm going to convict him of something, anything. (That isn't how DAs offices should work)

Also should've just gone with I don't recall:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/09/02/fbi-hillary-clinton-report-email-investigation-classified-perez-lead.cnn
 
teh great bozack
2023-01-31 3:15:35 PM  
Eh
Don't like it
I love the Welsh
 
Erma Gerdd
2023-01-31 3:21:41 PM  
"Wallace then told Trump he could just say, "same answer" - "to speed things up.""

Fark that- make it take looonnnggerrrr.
 
Halfabee64
2023-01-31 3:24:16 PM  

Halfabee64: Halfabee64: I would have had a little fun with him and his "same answer" crap by throwing questions at him carefully designed to get under his skin without objection and provoke a denial.

Also, since this is a civil trial, a jury is free to infer criminality from all 400 questions he refused to answer so as NOT to incriminate himself, which is almost a distinction without a difference:  he's guilty vs we all know he's guilty and can confidently vote to convict.


Mr. Trump, is it true that in 2016 you said, ""If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?  Only the mob takes the fifth."?

It lands like a right hook and I can present it to the jury with his "Same answer." response.
 
C18H27NO3
2023-01-31 3:24:21 PM  
Just die already you cock.
 
austerity101
2023-01-31 3:25:41 PM  

Halfabee64: Also, since this is a civil trial, a jury is free to infer criminality from all 400 questions he refused to answer so as NOT to incriminate himself, which is almost a distinction without a difference:  he's guilty vs we all know he's guilty and can confidently vote to convict.


Is that something the jury can be reminded of? Because they really should be, at every opportunity.
 
austerity101
2023-01-31 3:27:37 PM  

Halfabee64: Halfabee64: Halfabee64: I would have had a little fun with him and his "same answer" crap by throwing questions at him carefully designed to get under his skin without objection and provoke a denial.

Also, since this is a civil trial, a jury is free to infer criminality from all 400 questions he refused to answer so as NOT to incriminate himself, which is almost a distinction without a difference:  he's guilty vs we all know he's guilty and can confidently vote to convict.

Mr. Trump, is it true that in 2016 you said, ""If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?  Only the mob takes the fifth."?

It lands like a right hook and I can present it to the jury with his "Same answer." response.


"Objection! Relevance?"
"Sustained. Question and response will be stricken from the record."

Sounds very Anatomy of a Murder to me. Maybe it's inadmissible, but you can't make the jury forget they ever heard it.
 
Nana's Vibrator
2023-01-31 3:35:32 PM  
The amount of money this guy costs the public for zero advantage or gain...  Think of it in terms of pure Capitalism. What would you do with such a budget sinkhole?  His donations are drying up. And he's geriatric.  And you have covert military operators.  And you have coroners on your payroll who can say natural causes.  What would a true business mind do?
 
sdd2000
2023-01-31 3:44:05 PM  

GrizzlyPouch: Shocking a guy would plead the 5th to a DA who campaigned on convicting him of a crime.  That's her stated purpose.

She didn't come out and say I'm going to investigate, see if there's evidence for anything.  She said I'm going to convict him of something, anything. (That isn't how DAs offices should work)

Also should've just gone with I don't recall:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/09/02/fbi-hillary-clinton-report-email-investigation-classified-perez-lead.cnn


The idea of "I don't recall" by Individual-1 who bragged about having the 'World's Greatest Memory' would go over real well with a civil jury.

Also, you like TFG seem to still think that the NY State AG is looking at this as a criminal matter. The NYAG has extremely limited criminal jurisdiction and in most cases it is left to the county DAs in NY (like the Manhattan DA who obtained a conviction against Weiselberg and Trump Org.)
 
bumfuzzled
2023-01-31 3:53:01 PM  

austerity101: Halfabee64: Halfabee64: Halfabee64: I would have had a little fun with him and his "same answer" crap by throwing questions at him carefully designed to get under his skin without objection and provoke a denial.

Also, since this is a civil trial, a jury is free to infer criminality from all 400 questions he refused to answer so as NOT to incriminate himself, which is almost a distinction without a difference:  he's guilty vs we all know he's guilty and can confidently vote to convict.

Mr. Trump, is it true that in 2016 you said, ""If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?  Only the mob takes the fifth."?

It lands like a right hook and I can present it to the jury with his "Same answer." response.

"Objection! Relevance?"
"Sustained. Question and response will be stricken from the record."

Sounds very Anatomy of a Murder to me. Maybe it's inadmissible, but you can't make the jury forget they ever heard it.


If you do it right, getting objected to can be a very powerful tool in front of a jury.

"Mr. Trump, didn't you have sex with an adult film actress and then lie about paying her to keep quiet?"
"Objection!"
"No need, Your Honor. I withdraw the question."

Not only did you remind the jury, but officially you never asked the question.
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 3:58:57 PM  
It would have been cool, and cruel, if the individual who was asking the questions developed a speech rhythm so that #45** answered back in that rhythm.  Then on one occasion the questioner stopped in mid sentence and the Mushroom Man stuck in his "same answer" then be reminded that "I hasn't asked you a question yet MM.  Are you taking this proceeding seriously?  Then keep f*#king with him for the next three hours.  Make the bint have to concentrate and actually think pay attention to what is going on.
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 4:00:42 PM  
hasn't
haven't
 
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