Former President Donald Trump invokes Fifth Amendment rights and declines to answer questions from NY attorney general

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Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer questions at his deposition with the New York attorney general in an investigation of the Trump Organization's finances

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Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer questions from the New York attorney general at a scheduled deposition Wednesday.

"Under the advice of my counsel and for all of the above reasons, I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution," Trump said in a statement.

'They even broke into my safe': Trump responds to search of his Mar-a-Lago home 02:06"When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice," the former President stated.

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Layoff Hilarym. Chump!

Jerk.

He are innocent! Obama took document home just like zelenkey will when sent to prison! Hah!

It no one bunnies what he said or done u all judge to much against no reson leave him alone

Put your damn hand down.

Dunss

Of course he did. Coward!

Black Power?

Is he the only one ever to do that?

Working on 2nd riot

So, you're saying he did what everyone does. Great reporting here, peeps.

ABAJO EL CASTROFACISMO TERRORISTA CUBANOS

Lock him up!!

All y’all republicans go back to the time where he is against fifth!

Jail the jerk already!!

No good Democrat would EVER testify. They just say they can’t remember anything

Look who is talking 😜😜😜😜

Guilty as Sin !!! Lock Him Up Already ''

Wow someone invoking their rights and he gets demonized by the radical left cultist. Typical

As he should, political witch hunt, how about covering Hunter and Joe Biden's foreign dealings, follow that money, drugs, prostitution

Taking the Fifth is his right to screw those who are trying to screw him!

Why don't Americans ask the REAL QUESTION? WHY DID TRUMP STEAL DOCUMENTS? LOCK HIM UP!!

Nows not the time to talk. In court where this witch-hunt is heading. They have tried so many lies and false accusations against him. You can’t believe anything that comes from them as a body of politicians against our nation and the whole world.

Time this bullyboy sleazebag was put in his place and his redneck right wing extremists. Seems to me he would be 'happy' with civil war so long as he could sit in the Whitehouse again. Grossly spoilt manchild who doesn't understand NO or Lo

good for him fucking witch hunt

This is what happens when the BS runs out.

It's not of your business, and pick on people that are breaking the law in right in front of your noses

GUILTY!!!

Trump acted like all populists: away with democracy. The whole world knows what a trickster and deceiver Donald is. Sorry: another German who wants to manipulate people. As a German, one is ashamed of such a stray type. What do you HillaryClinton think: Lock him up!!!!

Low IQ Leftist Democrat NY AG TishJames wanted to depose Trump to set him up. James campaigned on “I will sue President Trump,” “I will lock him up,” “he’s an illegitimate President.” The burden is on AG James to prove a crime NOT Trump to disprove. NOT a fair process.

The tyrannical fascist democrats are using the justice system to go after all political opposition. The tyrannical fascist democrats are creating a dictatorship. Dictatorships never get voted out of power and with election fraud system they created voting is useless

This is only going to get him into more trouble. He should have just answered the questions. Lol

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Ok just so ya know.. all these stories are made up BULLSHIT, ALL OF THEM, no matter the side the story comes from, made up bullshit, it's all just a script being played out, quit being fooled by the bullshit! I'm shocked people still watch the bullshit msm, I mean shocked!

Is the owner of this bank is he Roman English or is he Scandinavian English?

And that’s his right as an American citizen. Now what did you say about Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton? Don’t worry will wait.

I would to in the fbi is being used as a weapon against me because of my political views. This is how dictatorships work. The usa is no longer free.

Talk to the lawyer mfkrs!

Lol, remember when trump said,' if you don't have nothing to hide you don't plead the 5th. Only guilty people plead the 5th' what's that tell you.

Shocker!😂

Chicken …..only criminals invoke the fifth

They will never leave him alone because they are scared of what he can do,they need to worry about the current president

Stop reporting on Trump, let's worry about our economy and how your reporting makes the US look like little b**ches! The people of the US need to wake up and turn this crap off and make decisions for yourself. Not the news.

So much hate and fear for one man. Disgusting

Please throw this garbage in jail for life!!!!

And he said that Hillary is crooked

Guilty!

As is his right

Shut up

Good President

Lock Him Up! Guilty!

whenever he invoked the fifth I drank a shot of tequila I slowly passing out...

He was so proud the 45th president of USA, he should be renamed the 5th

Fake BS

Guilty 👌🏼

Omg

If you have nothing to hide... But wait, PATHOLOGICAL LIARS have plenty to hide.

We should raid Biden son next!

Would an American patriot be the instrument that leads to the spilling of blood among Americans. Citizens against each other, brother against brother against father.... I pledge allegiance to the flag... one nation under God, INDIVISIBLE

No one cares about what y'all report anymore. Y'all are puppets.

“The mob takes the fifth” the words of the ex-defeated President. Oh my how things have changed but the lies continue. 🙄

Lock him up!

Trump knows he is not facing honest opponents, if they are sure they will win election why they need to bring him down before election!

Like 446 times and then whined about the deep state. Remind us again Trump, who are the only people who plead the 5th?

The “Deep State” is amazing. It managed to get a Trump appointed FBI Director, to draw up an unprecedented search warrant for Mar a Lago, who then got a trump appointed Federal judge to sign the MAL search warrant, all based on information provided by a trump insider. WOW!

Only stupid follow this clown when they know he is guilty but they is something no matter is he is guilty he will never put a foot in jail he is white have money that only reason if were obama who did what this clown did he will be in jail by now

It took the fifth because it's his right to take the fifth

Long live Pres Trump

I really dislike you. You are a

Because he is guilty as sin. He was probably prepared to lie, as usual, but he listened to his lawyers for once, who had convinced him not to add perjury to the list of charges.

JUSTICE IS COMING

Pleading the fifth and declining questions. He knows he'll go to jail if he lies under oath so he doesn't have a choice. What a Loser

GOOD FOR HIM

Who pleads the fifth, who does that. Someone who's guilty, that's who.( His own words September 2016)

GOOD!! HE'D BE SET UP IF HE SAID IT WAS SUNNY OUT. AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FOUL.

Coward

Oh goodie 🙄

Good! TRUMP2024!!!

I plead the 5th, but, but, but, her emails and Hunters laptop

Bahahahaha

DsOchoa Well that looks like a familiar greeting to his proud boys and other “special people.”

He makes a fist like every kid that got beat up daily in elementary school

Coward

Mrs. Clinton do that . She answered ? . Because she knew she didn’t do anything. An he can show the papers he got.

Truth will out!

The judge who signed off on the mar a lago raid suffered from trump derangement syndrome + pushed critical race theory

Talk about words coming back to bite you. Sheesh.

Why are the liberals so aggressively after Trump, let's worry about the economy not Trump!

The confidential informant is Donnie himself. Think about it. It’ll fire up his base. Puts him front and center in the news

THESE LIBERALS WILL NEVER OUT FOX 🦊 THE FOX 🦊 😉👍👏👏👏. 🚂✝️🇺🇸🙏💕

Of course, the biggest hypocrite of all and he's hiding the truth for as long as he can get away with it. He's flaunted the law for too long and it's going to bite him back soon.

What a Dingleberry

Why didn’t the FBI turn over Hunters Laptop on 8/8? Wasn’t that subpoenaed? Funny, didn’t see anyone get jerked off of a plane, phone snatched, or home raided. Red wave in November 💋

Can you believe this? One of our former presidents is standing trial like a mobster. How did Americans become so low as to elect someone like him?

“It’s only the Mob that claim that 5th” quote by DJ Trump

Please stop giving Trump and these republican radical a microphone and stage and redirect the focus on the recent accomplishments of the senate and the Biden administration...please, please, please.

Good.

😂😂

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Criminal

What will the Socialist FBI plant in what they stole during the raid?

Because he and his lawyer knows that anything he says will be a lie. Taking the Fifth is the only way he will not purger himself.

It Be The Power Too The People Fist For Me 🤦🏾‍♀️😂😂😂

This is the real reason they don't want you to know who signed off on the warrant. Research. Just don't believe what the MSM is telling you. Plus a huge Obama donor. Watch CNN delete this. Because it's true.

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'Innocent people don't plea the 5th' - Donald Trump. I guess he's guilty.

Isn’t that the “ White Power” fist?

That's what makes Trump such a great candidate for the Republicans he can lie with the straightest face and look at you like he's telling you the truth and he is lying everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie when it's time to tell the truth he invokes the fifth liar liar

Isn't this the same guy that said that he who pleads the fifth is because is guilty? Isn't this a confession? What is he doing out still? Would I be treated the same way?

What have you got to hide Mr Expresident?

What's he hiding? Hmmm....

Funny , don’t most guilty criminals invoke the 5th 🙄

He has every to take the 5th, it is one of our rights. I wouldn't say one word after the raid on his home.

Such a loser. GUILTY AF

Hillary warned you that Trump is a career criminal. You didn’t listen. TrumpIsGuilty

Wow!

Innocent men don’t plead the 5th.

SS Stormtroopers neo-nazis down on their knees!

Maga out here like 'raid Hilary next' 'raid hunter' ... go tf ahead lmao Yall act like we don't hate the establishment as whole. Take trump, take Hilary and Biden. We don't care.

SusanSCheerMO Awww .. he has his widdle fat fist in the air.

Yes, add Hypocrite to traitor Trump's long list of terrible qualities.

Hillary has nothing to do with this...folks always trying to deflect. He's a criminal...before and after the presidency.

It is so obvious they are afraid if he wins (he will) the elections, why they haven't done this to Hilary?

GUILTY!!!!

'So there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment, like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?'

Did I not here that anyone who plead the fifth is hiding something just a question?😂😂😂😂

A crook

No surprise there...AT ALL

Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!

If you're innocent, you don't need to plead the fifth. Republicans haven't figured that out yet? When will they boot him out of the party?

He is basically saying F you by taking the 5th. Which is what he should be doing with a witch hunt.

amazing he can actually count to 5!

No surprise there

Glad he did when you have corrupt MSM

In a civil case, juries can infer his guilt from him pleading the 5th. The general population can do the same with any case, including this one. The 5th is for those who are scared of the truth. B-bawk!

Why is everyone so butthurt about this

Stop giving this narcissistic 🍊 jerk the press he craves...this is giving him free press coverage for whatever little game, and little it would be, that he is playing.

He’s about to drain his own swamp 😂😂😂

'You see the mob takes the Fifth,' Donald Trump said during one rally in Iowa. 'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?'

CNN IS GONNA LOSE BIGLY in the deformation suite.

'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?' --Donald Trump

Good move now you will not be able to be be charged with lying under oath

The Democrats have committed acts of War. The recent actions demand a strong response from the Republicans or whatever Members of Government respect constitutional law. For USA to survive these assaults must be dealt with immediately! DemocRats have again fired on Ft Sumpter!!

Like the coward he is.

He would not have been able to sit through a deposition without lying.

Of course he did.

Good For Trump!!

Payback will be severe

There might be other issues.

Is that not the sign for white power?

He should have taken the 5th on the bible in Jan2017 when the twit was inaugurated… we wouldn’t have to deal with him now🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

What did anyone expect from him...the man is sooooo guilty

Shocked

I wouldn't tell them a damn thing.

Instead of covering the abuse of power by the FBI on a US citizen with regard to the exercise of a bogus subpoena regarding a bogus charge by the AG, they cover a long civil action on the same citizen to change public opinion on the abuse. Great journalism CNN!!

Definitely voting for Donald J Trump 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Why does this ridiculous fist move always remind me of Adolf?

Coward

He’s guilty of all charges. Worthless piece of shat.

COWARD

Who was it who said, 'only guilty people take the fifth?' Oh, yeah... It was tfg. 🤦

Lmao he is so fucking guilty, whatcha gotta say now Trumpers? Yeah be quiet

Lock him up 🔒🔒🔒

Someone once said, If you’re innocent, why would you take the fifth amendment? Who could have said that I wonder

Guess when your guilty you say nothing. The innocent have nothing to hide!

Coward

Good.

Who could blame him? witchhunt

Lock this dick up.

TrumpCrimeFamilyForPrison

He has a right to do this as any American does. BUT He is a big hypocrite with his take n people who do.

That closed fist right arm angle thing Trump does, is that Trump channeling in his inner fascism and providing his own take on the Hitler salute. Just saying.

The AG did not go to this length with nothing. The rule of thumb is to nail the case or get really close and then question the suspect. That way if the 5th is invoked it does not give the suspect/defendant a chance to demolish the case with a simple 5th.

Crooked Trump

Gee, I wonder why he would not want to participate in the TishJames witch hunt JohnKingCNN CNN just can't figure this out. So biased. FakeNewsCNN

TRUMP: 'Only guilty people plead the fifth.'

Because he’s guilty

Where did he get this lame raised fist thing from? You're not Soul Brother Trump.

Uhg...when is this slow motion train wreck that we all have seen coming for so long now - going to coming to a screeching halt? The wheels are off, but it's still full steam ahead...for now. Can't wait for the dust to settle! DJT/TFG -PRISON!!!

The IRS union gives 99% of its donations to Democrats. Now you know why Joe Biden wants to give the agency $80 billion.

This nigga going to jail jail lol

Ladies and Gentlemen....we got him.

This man even in court will lie. And the republicans put him in charge of the USA. YOU PEOPLE DESERVE HIM. continue to lie Mr Orange Man. Make your party proud. Lol

In the words of the Great Con Donald J. Trump - 'If you're innocent why you taking the fifth amendment?'

One only takes the 5th if he knows he has broken the law…

“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” - D. J. Trump, Sep 28, 2016, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Guilty Guilty Guilty!!! Lock him up!!

The 5th, the guilty. 🙄

Of course he did, although I am surprised he didn't mind lying under oath.

He can put his fist in his ass! Traitor.

Coward

Crooked ass crook...

Because he is GUILTY

He has the right to plea the 5th. Good for him.

Trump stated previously that anyone who took pleaded the 5th was guilty. . . Enough said!

So in other words….

I remember him being pro-torture. Maybe a bit of that will work here...

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