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Cohen taking the Fifth (Original Post)
orangecrush
Apr 2018
OP
Historic NY
(37,460 posts)1. They need to bring him in and ask him question by question ...
orangecrush
(19,662 posts)2. He will be under enormous pressure
let's see if he's a tough guy when he finds out he's looking at 20 years or so.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)3. I'm not comfortable with that assertion
I like Lieu, but pleading the Fifth cannot be taken as an admission of guilt. That is a principle that goes beyond this situation.
Poiuyt
(18,133 posts)4. But Trump said:
The mob takes the Fifth. If youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)5. So we follow Trumps lead?
Lieu doesn't reference that anyway, he just makes the assertion.
Poiuyt
(18,133 posts)10. Just pointing out the hypocrisy
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)8. Actually . . . . you have to persuade the judge that you have a reason to
plead the Fifth in a civil case. It's not like a congressional hearing.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)11. Persuade him that the question calls for a possible answer
that could be incriminating. Showing you are guilty is not a predicate for pleading the Fifth.
Turbineguy
(37,412 posts)6. He needs the Witness Protection Program.
orangecrush
(19,662 posts)7. Watch him...
Takket
(21,702 posts)9. Trump said "the mob" takes the fifth
But by last year, Trump was singing a different tune: During the presidential election, he repeatedly slammed former staffers for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton who took the Fifth during a congressional probe into her use of a private email server.
Computer specialist Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department employee who had helped set up Clinton's private email server, asserted the Fifth more than 130 times in June to avoid answering deposition questions from lawyers with the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch. Two computer experts contracted to handle Clinton's email server took the Fifth months later and two Clinton lawyers who spoke to FBI investigators got immunity for turning over laptops.
Trump was not impressed.
The mob takes the Fifth, he said at an Iowa campaign rally in September. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/23/if-youre-innocent-why-are-you-taking-the-fifth-trump-said-years-after-invoking-it-himself/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.89fa43d82c67
orangecrush
(19,662 posts)12. my money
is on Cohen flipping to save his ass.
Takket
(21,702 posts)13. I hope so.