Former federal attorney suggests Trump is guilty because he invoked 5th Amendment rights. The backlash is bipartisan.

The Blaze ^ | August 10, 2022 | Chris Enloe

[BobL]

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.

[Liz]

——”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.” .

[Paperpusher]

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.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Lois Lerner pleads the Fifth - 2013

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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.

[Susquehanna Patriot]

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.

[Lockbox]

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?

[ComputerGuy]

Goldman

[Mashood]

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

[oblomov]

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

[zeestephen]

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!

[70times7]

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.

[Recompennation]

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

[jacknhoo]

Nicely stated.

[RoosterRedux]

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?

[Baldwin77]

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.

[cdcdawg]

“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.

[From The Deer Stand]

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

[Alberta's Child]

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.

[Shady]

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..

[KevinB]

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.