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Former federal attorney suggests Trump is guilty because he invoked 5th Amendment rights. The backlash is bipartisan.
The Blaze ^ | August 10, 2022 | Chris Enloe

Posted on 08/11/2022 2:51:07 AM PDT by gattaca

A former federal prosecutor triggered bipartisan backlash on Wednesday for suggesting that invoking Fifth Amendment rights implies guilt.

What is the background? On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump invoked his constitutional rights against self-incrimination, declining to answer questions at a deposition for New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).

Trump announced he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights after arriving to the deposition. The statement explained:

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. For more than three years, James has been probing Trump's business practices as part of a civil investigation.

What did the prosecutor say? Daniel Goldman, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district of New York for 10 years, suggested Trump is relaying guilt because he invoked his constitutionally protected rights.

"The Fifth Amendment ensures that people are not forced to incriminate themselves. But you don’t take the Fifth if you didn’t do anything wrong," Goldman said on Twitter.

Goldman is no stranger to Trump.

The former federal prosecutor, who is now running for Congress as a Democrat, served as lead counsel in both impeachment cases against Trump.

Don't miss out on content from Dave Rubin free of big tech censorship. Listen to The Rubin Report now. What was the response? New York attorney Eliza Orlins said Goldman's remarks demonstrate "why we don’t trust prosecutors."

"They lie through their teeth, and they don't operate in the best interests of the people (you and me!) they're alleging to represent," Orlins said. "There is *nothing* incriminating about taking the Fifth. It’s a right that every American—yes, including terrible former presidents—has. And should use!"

Former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark, who served in the Trump administration, called Goldman's remarks a "disgraceful position."

"Contrary to Constitution. Contrary to Supreme Court 5th Amend. jurisprudence. An indication that any oaths you took while in the fed'l gov't were a farce," Clark said. "No way you'd be saying this if it were the Clintons or Bidens."

Law reporter Chris Geidner, himself a lawyer, said Goldman's remarks prove why America needs fewer prosecutors in power.

"For the record, s*** like this is why I talk so much about needing more former public defenders — and fewer former prosecutors — on the bench," Geidner tweeted.

Meanwhile, Institute for Justices senior attorney Paul Sherman accused Goldman of lying to score political points.

"Mr Goldman is a Stanford-trained former federal prosecutor and he knows with 100% certainty that this is not true. He’s comfortable lying about it because he’s running for office, and we’ve convinced ourselves that lying is okay if it secures power for your team," Sherman said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 5thamendment; creepstate; danielgoldman; deepstate; demagogicparty; demagogue; fifthamendment; gettherope; letitiajames; liketrumponcesaid; liketrumpsaid; newyork; newyorkcity; policestate; singlepartystate
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To: gattaca

Anyone who follows the persecution of Trump knows the intent to nail Trump on a “process crime”, because they have no underlying crime. So they’d ask him if he ever committed a crime in NYC and he’d say something like “well, I got a parking ticket 20 years ago in NYC”. They’d go back and find out it was, in 18 years ago in NYC, and charge him with PERJURY for lying about when it happened.

He’s smart to not answer any of their questions.


21 posted on 08/11/2022 3:44:05 AM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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——”Mr Goldman is a Stanford-trained former federal prosecutor
——and he knows with 100% certainty that this is not true.

-——He’s comfortable lying about it because he’s running for office,
-——we’ve convinced ourselves that lying is okay if it secures power for your team.” .


22 posted on 08/11/2022 3:46:23 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES....GOD DISPOSES.)
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To: redgolum

What do they want? Maybe the “good old days” where confessions were tortured out of people? They still have that option, it is called lawfare. Trump is experiencing it right now.


23 posted on 08/11/2022 3:48:44 AM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: 11th_VA

Lois Lerner pleads the Fifth - 2013


Lois Lerner was not on trial in a court of law at the time. Moreover, there is no legal code to prohibit using either the IRS or the FBI as partisan tools.


24 posted on 08/11/2022 3:49:17 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: RoosterRedux

They did not say “ But you don’t take the Fifth if you didn’t do anything wrong” when Susan McDougal refused to testify against the Clintons.


25 posted on 08/11/2022 4:00:03 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot ( )
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To: gattaca
What did the prosecutor say? Daniel Goldman, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district of New York for 10 years, suggested Trump is relaying guilt because he invoked his constitutionally protected rights.

and that mind set for a Federal Attorney is a MAJOR issue! Tell us Daniel which others sections of the US Constitution due feel personally you can disregard? Is this standard In the US Attorney training program?

26 posted on 08/11/2022 4:00:44 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: gattaca

Goldman


27 posted on 08/11/2022 4:00:52 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: gattaca

Doesn’t sound like Ms. James and Mr. Goldman have much to go on.


28 posted on 08/11/2022 4:01:09 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: gattaca

Former RNC-garbage chairman Michael Steele tweeted the same thing. Georgetown Law JD.


29 posted on 08/11/2022 4:02:06 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: gattaca
Re: "this is why I talk so much about needing more former public defenders...on the bench"

Public defenders and private criminal defense lawyers are at least 90% Democrat!

30 posted on 08/11/2022 4:06:52 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: gattaca
These liars and criminals in government, and the intentional idiots and morons who believe them, are why America is in so much trouble. The mindless dims have been endlessly told that the 5th is the "right against self incrementation". Because of this warped wording they believe that, "when you are guilty you don't have to say so". The implications are obvious and the biased media pushes the lies.

In fact our constitution states: "[no one] shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". They are not at all the same thing, and this pos knows it.

Trump is simply using his God given right to not be compelled to be a witness against himself. Considering the blatant abuses of power and outright crimes the left has committed in trying to railroad him, not cooperating with them is exactly what he should be doing.

31 posted on 08/11/2022 4:10:14 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: gattaca

Trump did not plead anything.
He Invoked the 5th which is available to all.
His reason, well founded mistrust of the illicit government.


32 posted on 08/11/2022 4:12:30 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count so mee )
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To: 70times7

Nicely stated.


33 posted on 08/11/2022 4:14:12 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot
The "they" of whom you speak are members of the Deep State...the vast, corrupt, self-perpetuating government bureaucracy that has become like a living beast.

You don't actually think members of the Deep State are going to accuse their fellow members of anything wrong, do you?

34 posted on 08/11/2022 4:15:28 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: gattaca

I seriously doubt Trump has any idea what is in his tax returns. I imagine he has a department full of people who do them.


35 posted on 08/11/2022 4:17:39 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Super, Duper, Ultra Maga, subject of the Ultra Maga King Donald)
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To: gattaca

“Goldman is no stranger to Trump.

The former federal prosecutor, who is now running for Congress as a Democrat, served as lead counsel in both impeachment cases against Trump.”

Part of the gang. He would fit right in with Schiff, Nadler, and Raskin.


36 posted on 08/11/2022 4:22:31 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: gattaca

Hillary: “I can’t recall.” How many times?


37 posted on 08/11/2022 4:26:19 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Fester Chugabrew
I had a lawyer tell me that in my state, a corporate officer or director who asserts his Fifth Amendment rights in a case where the corporation is a party to the proceedings is immediately disqualified from holding any fiduciary position in the company. The reason for this is obvious: a person in this position is effectively stating that he or she has a conflict of interest in the proceedings.

It would probably not be a bad thing for such a rule to be in place for all government officials who aren’t elected to their positions.

38 posted on 08/11/2022 4:29:57 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: 70times7

This is the “line in the sand” between a country that is based on the principle that “a nation of laws, not of man,” is now just the opposite. Fie on those evil people..


39 posted on 08/11/2022 4:30:59 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: ClearCase_guy
Prosecutors and Defenders ought to be upfront and honest at all times or face serious prison time.

That's how it currently works, though it would typically be disbarment before prison time. Any lawyer who knowingly misrepresents anything to a court is subject to disbarment.

40 posted on 08/11/2022 4:35:15 AM PDT by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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