Watch Former POTUS Donald Trump Repeatedly Plead The Fifth

CBS News obtained and published footage Tuesday of a portion of Former President Donald Trump’s deposition in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud investigation from last summer, in which he notoriously pleaded the fifth repeatedly. 


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Let’s ask the pig himself what he thinks about people pleading the 5th…

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He’s like a Mobster.

“Same answer” to everything.

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God, look at those lizard eyes

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Watch Former POTUS Donald Trump Repeatedly Plead The Fifth

Pro tip: mute the sound and turn on closed captioning so you don’t have to hear his voice. Then scroll the video off the page so you don’t have to see his face.

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But I have to watch. I feel compelled to watch.

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I’d love to see a campaign ad juxtaposing the two. Preferably from Biden in the general election.

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TDFFG has only two settings - lie or plead the fifth.

Truth is not an option. And once his lawyers explained to him that lying under oath to people who already have the answers to the question they’d be asking him…

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I think that it is somewhat unfair to use this to indicate criminality on the part of Trump. It could just as easily be a signal of mental deterioration.

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Hey - let’s not insult lizards.

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Then guzzle a pint of bourbon so you can forget he ever existed. Even if, alas, temporarily.

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No, he is a mobster. Always has been.

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If we had to take a shot every time Cockholster pleaded the Fifth we all would surely be dead. Moreover, we would be so pickled we’d never decompose.

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Good point.

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Word on the street is that many Republican lawmakers check the obituaries each morning to see if he’s dead, yet.

I, on the other hand, believe that 28% of American voters will vote for him dead or alive and 28% of those will claim that rumors of his death are fake news even if his rotting corpse is put on display.

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Arms crossed, looking imperious.

He’s really a disgusting human being.

You’re in trouble, mister, and according to Bob Woodward, you smell, too. :nauseated_face:

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He thinks he is a mobster. Mobster wanna be. Seems to be a fascination since he was young.

I skipped around the video a bit. Did he at least own up to being Donald J. Trump? Or same answer.

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If one can place his business and his politics aside, on a basic human level, Trump fails at every turn.

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saying, “For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein in its entirety, I decline to answer the question.”

Senior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace of the attorney general’s office then told Trump he could say, “same answer” to “speed things up,” instead of repeating the formal response.

Trump did just that, repeating “same answer” over 400 times during the course of the nearly four hours of questioning, according to CBS News.

I will point out that if you answer every single question with “Fifth”, you are giving nothing away. Whereas if you selectively “Fifth” questions, you’re communicating which subjects are of concern to you.

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