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fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
Fri Feb 18, 2022, 12:47 PM Feb 2022

Trump and the 5th is like oil and water.

It doesn't mix. I have no doubt Trumps lawyers will tell him to take the 5th over and over again. I can see Trump attempting to take the fifth over and over again, and I can see Trump losing self control, then telling the prosecutors one of his made up bullshit stories over and over again.

Trump taking the 5th hour after hour without saying anything else, that shit doesn't mix.

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Trump and the 5th is like oil and water. (Original Post) fightforfreedom Feb 2022 OP
Drugs exboyfil Feb 2022 #1
He is clinically incapable of shutting up. milestogo Feb 2022 #2
That's a perfect word to describe Trump, clinical. fightforfreedom Feb 2022 #3
Taking the 5th would be like losing to him and his father raised a KILLER underpants Feb 2022 #4
pathologically verbose.. agingdem Feb 2022 #5
He'd start by saying "I plead the 5th" Mr. Ected Feb 2022 #6
You got it. fightforfreedom Feb 2022 #7
Perjury trap? keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #8

exboyfil

(17,865 posts)
1. Drugs
Fri Feb 18, 2022, 12:50 PM
Feb 2022

I bet the family tries to use drugs. I hope the state hasa skilled prosecutor doing the questioning - one that knows how to get under Trump's skin.

 

fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
3. That's a perfect word to describe Trump, clinical.
Fri Feb 18, 2022, 01:03 PM
Feb 2022

His brain does not work like most peoples brain. He always repeats the same patterns, the same actions. He is like a broken record.

He is a textbook narcissist.

agingdem

(7,859 posts)
5. pathologically verbose..
Fri Feb 18, 2022, 01:10 PM
Feb 2022

obsessively self absorbed, a consummate con man, and the definition of the Dunning Kruger Effect..you're right..and because he has no self-control he will invoke the 5th until he explodes, spewing invectives and empty threats...

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
6. He'd start by saying "I plead the 5th"
Fri Feb 18, 2022, 01:18 PM
Feb 2022

Then he'd continue: "Because my lawyers told me that that's what I needed to do. But I have nothing to hide. This entire proceeding is a fraud, you're a fraud, everybody knows it. We have the best people telling us you're a fraud. It's ridiculous. We have a beautiful company, the best company in the world, everybody knows it. What do you know about running a company? What do you know about valuing properties? My properties are more valuable than any other properties because everybody knows it. So yeah, I plead the fifth and when I get elected again I'll make sure that none of you ever have a fifth amendment to use because it's what gangsters use when they're trying to get out of something that they deserve, but everybody knows that's not why I'm using it".

keithbvadu2

(36,921 posts)
8. Perjury trap?
Fri Feb 18, 2022, 01:27 PM
Feb 2022

In previous chances of deposition, Trump's lawyers were worried about a perjury trap.

Rightly so.

It is impossible to fall into a perjury trap if you tell the truth.

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