{"id":52551,"date":"2022-08-10T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52551"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:32:17","slug":"trump-takes-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52551","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes Fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>So, what do we have here? A former president who used to vilify others for taking the Fifth because they are &#8220;guilty&#8221; of something now has &#8212; get ready for it &#8212; done that very thing.<\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump was summoned to speak to the New York attorney general&#8217;s office. He didn&#8217;t answer any questions. Instead, he fell back on his constitutional protection against self-incrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s legal. He can do that. He broke no law.<\/p>\n<p>New York AG Tish James is conducting an investigation into the Trump Organization&#8217;s business practices. The ex-POTUS has called her probe a witch hunt; he has accused her of being racist.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also has denied doing anything illegal. He has said so repeatedly. Which begs the question:<\/p>\n<p>If the former president is clean, why must he hide behind the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what do we have here? A former president who used to vilify others for taking the Fifth because they are &#8220;guilty&#8221; of something now has &#8212; get ready for it &#8212; done that very thing. Donald John Trump was summoned to speak to the New York attorney general&#8217;s office. He didn&#8217;t answer any questions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump takes Fifth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1424,7072,7650],"class_list":["post-52551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fifth-amendment","tag-trump-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52552,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52551\/revisions\/52552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}