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Note From Elie: In Defense of the Fifth

The Counsel

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In a civil investigation, one civil and one criminal, of you, your family and your business. Now the a g going to question you under oath in the civil investigation about the very same topics at the center of the still pending criminal investigation. What would a reasonable person do here? Some might claim, well, if i had done nothing wrong, i'd stride right into that deposition room. I'd boldly declare my innocent and set the a g straight. And that's precisely why you take the fifth. Here much has been made of the fact that trump reportedly took the fifth over 400 times during his deposition. But once a subject has decided that he won't answer certain lines of questioning,

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