“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” Trump questioned in 2017.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he refused to answer questions while appearing in a New York attorney general’s civil probe into alleged fraud at the Trump Organization.
According to a statement posted to his social media site, Trump asserted his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination when speaking under oath.
“I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question,” Trump said in the statement.
