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The deposition Trump is keeping his mouth shut for was ordered by New York Attorney General Letitia James. She’s investigating Trump for fraudulently misrepresenting the value of his real estate properties. Trump has responded by viciously attacking James and insulting her, rather than simply making the case for his innocence. What does that tell you?<\/p>\n
RELATED: Crybaby Trump is Scared and Lashing Out Hysterically at Hillary Clinton and NY AG Letitia James<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Of course, anyone is permitted to plead the Fifth in order to avoid self-incrimination. And that includes Trump. However, the reasons he provided in a rambling and hostile statement that he posted online don’t exactly help his case. The full statement is posted below (or here<\/a> transcribed). But here are a few of choice selections that embody the crux of his feelings about the matter.<\/p>\n Trump opened by saying that “Attorney General Letitia James openly campaigned on the policy of ‘Get and Destroy Trump.’ This political attack on me, my family, and my great company is her despicable attempt to fulfill that cynical, and very corrupt promise.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Trump’s complaint that James campaigned “on the policy of ‘Get and Destroy Trump,”<\/em> actually points out how much Trump is despised. After all, it was a winning campaign. And if Trump had such a “great company,”<\/em> it wouldn’t now be the subject of an investigation for fraud.<\/p>\n Trump wrote that James said “‘He\u2019s going to know my name personally’, and she claimed I was an ‘illegitimate President.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, James was right on both counts then. Trump obviously knows her name, and his presidency was wholly illegitimate if judged by his ignorance, failure to accomplish anything, and his tendency to violate the legal and moral principles of the position.<\/p>\n Trump wrote that James “colluded with others to carry out this phony years-long crusade.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In other words, she worked cooperatively other other law enforcement agencies to advance a probe that Trump tried to obstruct for years, but for which James won every court battle. Which is why he was there pleading the Fifth.<\/p>\n Now Trump is whining that “Letitia James openly stated her hostilities toward me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Was that while Trump was politely calling her “despicable,” “corrupt,”<\/em> and “racist?”<\/em><\/p>\n Trump insists that “I did nothing wrong, which is why, after five years of looking, the Federal, State and local governments, together with the Fake News Media, have found nothing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Actually, Trump has resisted cooperating with the investigations, which is what took up most of that time. And he might want to check with the FBI, who just searched his Mar-a-Lago bunker, about whether anything was found.<\/p>\n RELATED: The Trump Cult Knows He\u2019s Guilty, So They\u2019re All on Fox News Yammering About Planted Evidence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Trump calls the probe “a vindictive and self-serving fishing expedition.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But James is very narrowly looking into<\/a><\/strong> how “the Trump Organization exaggerated the value of its holdings to impress lenders or misstated what land was worth to slash its tax burden […] The company even exaggerated the size of Trump’s Manhattan penthouse.”<\/em><\/p>\n And this is where we get into the meat of Trump’s excuse for pleading the Fifth.<\/p>\n “I once asked, ‘If you\u2019re 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So I heard he took the fifth? pic.twitter.com\/F6y0IpNhAd<\/a><\/p>\n — Acyn (@Acyn) August 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n