Replies to post #534726 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Does it even occur to you that it's more about the GOP not holding a former president to acuity standards that they are unwilling to apply to the current president? You think Trump's increasing memory lapses and more and more incoherent riffs are NOT worthy of closer examination?

Of course you don't, he's your guy.

[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.

[newmedman]

Look, squirrel!

He’s just stating the facts…

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-07-19T04:36:37.445Z

[fuagf]

dbergh, Pleading the 5th for them could be no more than telling the parasitic committee to get fucked. If i were
any one of them that's what i would do the face of such an obvious waste of time distractive witch-hunt effort.