Fifth Amendment rights for me, but not for thee
“The mob takes the Fifth,” Trump said at one campaign rally in September 2017. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
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Trump also called staffers pleading the Fifth “disgraceful” and “a bigger deal than Watergate” at different points during the campaign.
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The president, however, pleaded the Fifth during his divorce from his first wife Ivana Trump in 1990 to avoid answering questions about adultery.
And Cohen revealed in a court filing Wednesday that he will plead the Fifth in Daniels’s defamation lawsuit against him.
Not that anyone should be surprised. Inconsistency — and grift — are Trump’s strengths. He’s admitted as much. Would have been nice, though, if the elite media had noticed and maybe filed some serious reports…in 2015 and 2016…