„If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?“ Trump said during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Former President Donald Trump announced that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during his Wednesday deposition with New York Attorney General Letitia James‘ office in a reversal from the stance he took nearly six years ago when he was running for the presidency.
In a statement made Wednesday, just an hour after Trump arrived at James‘ headquarters in New York City, the former president said, „I once asked, ‚If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?‘ Now I know the answer to that question.“
„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,“ Trump said.
„Accordingly, 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,“ he added.
