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Never occurred to you that as President, Trump had the authority to declassify documents?
And no, Hillary never had that power, so another swing and miss from the roadkill poster.
Did he declassify the documents he illegally took?
If Trump declassified the documents, then he committed no crime no manner how you spin it, Oso.
And in case you imagine those documents were stamped 'CLASSIFIED' like you see in movies and TV, that's not how this works.
Did your Dear Leader declassify all of the classified documents a Mar a Lago while he was POTUS?
You seem uneasy, Oso.
Is your scheme falling apart already?
I don't take the Fifth like Dear leader
You are the weak minded who will get him nominated for 2024, just like Dems want
Yup, Oso has gone squirmy and sweaty, like Hunter when he first heard about a search warrant.
Old Fifth Amendment Leader has your loyalty to the bitter end
You oppose Americans using their Constitutional rights.
Noted.
Dear Leader did.
'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?' Trump's position on declining to testify has changed over time.Over the years, former President Donald J. Trump has generally criticized other politicians for taking the Fifth Amendment. But on Wednesday, he invoked the right himself during a deposition at the office of the New York attorney general, and it wasn't the first time.
Mr. Trump previously contended that invoking one's Fifth Amendment rights was virtually an admission of wrongdoing."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?" Mr. Trump said
at a rally in Iowa in 2016, referring to investigations into Hillary Clinton's handling of potentially classified material as secretary of state.
Soon after, at a presidential debate, Mr. Trump doubled down on criticizing Ms. Clinton for using a private email server as secretary of state, again referencing the Fifth Amendment.
"When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth, so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful," he said.Yet in 1998, he suggested that President Bill Clinton should have done just that during the impeachment investigation into Clinton. "It's a terrible thing for a president to take the Fifth Amendment, but he probably should have done it. I don't think he could have done any worse than what's happened," Trump said.
On Wednesday,
Mr. Trump was singing a different tune, however, when he arrived at the New York attorney general's office in downtown Manhattan to give sworn testimony for a civil inquiry into his business practices.In a statement emailed just before the questioning started, Mr. Trump acknowledged his shifting positions over the years, but said circumstances had changed. He portrayed himself as the victim of politically motivated investigations, not just by the New York attorney general, but by the Justice Department and other prosecutors who he asserted "have lost all moral and ethical bounds of decency."
"I once asked, 'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?'" he wrote. "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."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/nyregion/trump-fifth-amendment-comments.html