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[newmedman]

The use of the Fifth Amendment is certainly nothing new in today's political climate. Several former Trump officials who testified before the House committee investigating the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol waged by the president's supporters frequently invoked the Fifth during questioning.

Trump himself invoked the Fifth 450 times during New York Attorney General Letitia James' investigation into his businesses, reported NBC News.

Rossi said that those testifying before the January 6 committee viewed it as a "witch hunt" aimed at establishing criminality, so it was "justified" for them to plead the Fifth as well.