Trump comments on Fifth Amendment resurface after Cohen filing [View all]
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Source: MSN/The Hill
President Trump's past comments slamming those who plead the Fifth Amendment quickly resurfaced Wednesday after Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen said he would assert his Fifth Amendment rights in Stormy Daniels's lawsuit filed against him and Trump.
"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?"
He was largely targeting former staffers for Hillary Clinton who pleaded the Fifth during the investigation into her use of a private email server while she was secretary of State.
Trump also called staffers pleading the Fifth "disgraceful" and "a bigger deal than Watergate" at different points during the campaign. The president, however, pleaded the Fifth during his divorce from his first wife Ivana Trump in 1990 to avoid answering questions about adultery.
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Watch Sarah Sanders break the next reporter over her knee who dares to raise this inconvenient fact at the next press conference.
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