{"id":1338,"date":"2017-05-22T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/trump-if-youre-innocent-why-are-you-taking-the-fifth\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:15:00","slug":"trump-if-youre-innocent-why-are-you-taking-the-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-if-youre-innocent-why-are-you-taking-the-fifth\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: \u2018If You\u2019re Innocent, Why Are You Taking the Fifth?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div lang=\"EN-US\" link=\"#0563C1\" vlink=\"#954F72\">\n<div class=\"m_7642639342316236974WordSection1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will reportedly invoke his Fifth Amendment right to protect from self-incrimination and refuse to provide documents or testimony requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating possible meddling between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">Trump previously declared that only people who are guilty invoke the Fifth Amendment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-pleading-the-fifth_us_57ed79dee4b024a52d2de46d?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a>: &ldquo;So there are five of them taking the Fifth Amendment, like you see on the mob, right?&nbsp; The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you&rsquo;re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?&rdquo;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span georgia=\"\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\">Still, Trump continues to defend Flynn in the fallout of his firing, saying &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2017\/02\/16\/remarks-president-trump-press-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what he did wasn&rsquo;t wrong<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will reportedly invoke his Fifth Amendment right to protect from self-incrimination and refuse to provide documents or testimony requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating possible meddling between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. &nbsp; Trump previously declared that only people who are guilty invoke the Fifth Amendment. &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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