Former Prosecutor Against Trump Takes the Fifth in Deposition Before GOP Committee

[Lastamender]

Keep believing and someday it may come true.

It is already true. You live in a post truth world. That cannot last.

 

[Kilroy2]

Gee, you lie like a democrat--fancy that.

Says the guy who thinks Trump and has never has had any legal problems and currently has some serious legal problems now. Republican logic when it comes to Trump. Trump lies and he a republican.

 

[BULLDOG]

Reality is my argument. You have no idea the reality of the situation.

Sure, but the twisted reality from inside your cult is not the same as the real reality. In your reality, trump really is a good guy, and the election really was stolen from him. Unfortuntely, you never came up with proof of any of your silly imagined beliefs.

 

[Lastamender]

Sure, but the twisted reality from inside your cult is not the same as the real reality. In your reality, trump really is a good guy, and the election really was stolen from him. Unfortuntely, you never came up with proof of any of your silly imagined beliefs.

All kinds of proof. The fraud that happened is eternal and the truth. You will be lying about it until your dying day because it happened and is never going away.

 

[BULLDOG]

All kinds of proof. The fraud that happened is eternal and the truth. You will be lying about it until your dying day because it happened and is never going away.

No. Again, like rudy said. You have lots of theories, but no proof.

 

[Lastamender]

No. Again, like rudy said. You have lots of theories, but no proof.

The proof is the incestuous pervert in the WH. Next.

 

[BULLDOG]

The proof is the incestuous pervert in the WH. Next.

You think it is in your mind, but it's not.

 

[Rigby5]

So what do you think of the hundreds of times trump used the 5th ammendment.

Trump was not party to trying to prosecute someone else.

 

[Lastamender]

You think it is in your mind, but it's not.

The diary proves it. Period. Ashley was old enough to have one and her father should have not showered with her. Deal with it, your president is white trash.

 

[BULLDOG]

Trump was not party to trying to prosecute someone else.

Trump is a party to every scam imaginable.

 

[Rigby5]

Trump is a party to every scam imaginable.

Actually, except for stacking the SCOTUS, Trump did fairly well.
Better than Obama, who promised to get out of illegal wars, and instead increased them and started several new ones, like Libya, Syria, and the Ukraine.
Obama's ACA mandate and penalty, was criminal.
Obama's failure to investigate Burisma Holdings was criminal.
Getting Shokin fired was criminal.
Stockpiling weapons in the Ukraine was criminal.

 

[Soupnazi630]

Actually, except for stacking the SCOTUS, Trump did fairly well.
Better than Obama, who promised to get out of illegal wars, and instead increased them and started several new ones, like Libya, Syria, and the Ukraine.
Obama's ACA mandate and penalty, was criminal.
Obama's failure to investigate Burisma Holdings was criminal.
Getting Shokin fired was criminal.
Stockpiling weapons in the Ukraine was criminal.

Obama did not start the war in Ukraione Putin did.

We stockpiled no weapons in Ukraine before the invasion and giving them weapons IS VERY legal.

 

[Catsnmeters]

Biden made how much from China? Let that balloon fly over America, But Trump did "stuff".

Don't worry. None of Trump's indictments say "stuff".

 

[Concerned American]

Says the guy who thinks Trump and has never has had any legal problems

Nope, wrong again. Please show me where I said that. I asked you to provide a link to a CONVICTION. You, like your fellow democrats, believe a charge is a conviction. You are grossly mistaken.

 

[BULLDOG]

Actually, except for stacking the SCOTUS, Trump did fairly well.
Better than Obama, who promised to get out of illegal wars, and instead increased them and started several new ones, like Libya, Syria, and the Ukraine.
Obama's ACA mandate and penalty, was criminal.
Obama's failure to investigate Burisma Holdings was criminal.
Getting Shokin fired was criminal.
Stockpiling weapons in the Ukraine was criminal.

I could go into great detail explaining how so much of what you claim is just wrong, but you hard core MAGAs just aren't worth the effort. "You're an idiot" is about all you are worthy of.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

The Democratic Party clown show continues.

Since when can you invoke the 5th privilege unless you fear being criminally prosecuted for something you may answer?

Yet this clown Pomaerantz seems to have invented a new way to dissemble by such specious claims here.

No one on the committee was seeking any answers to anything for which he [Pomerantz] could even begin to believe he was criminally liable.

Once his book was published he cannot invoke his privilege over what he already made public and likely waived it as well for any questions on this topic.

Give him immunity and bring him in for another round of questioning.

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Mark Pomerantz, a former Manhattan prosecutor who led an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s finances, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during his deposition before the House Judiciary Committee on May 12.​

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The GOP-led committee is conducting oversight of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “unprecedented indictment” of a former U.S. president.​

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In March, Trump became the first former U.S. president to be criminally charged; he pleaded not guilty in April to all 34 felony counts (pdf) of falsifying business records in the case brought by Bragg.​

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As part of the House Judiciary Committee’s oversight, Pomerantz was subpoenaed to provide testimony. While Bragg sued in an attempt to block the congressional subpoena, a judge denied his request.​

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Pomerantz in his opening statement said he was instructed by Bragg’s office to maintain its “claims of privilege and confidentiality in order to protect the integrity of the pending prosecution and continuing investigation of Donald Trump.”​

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He also said he invoked the Fifth Amendment because even though he had written and spoken about his own investigation into Trump, formal charges are now pending against Trump, which means “the circumstances have changed.”​

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Pomerantz also said that Bragg’s office, shortly before the publication of Pomerantz’s book, had warned him that he could face criminal liability if, among other things, he “disclosed grand jury material or violated a provision of the New York City Charter dealing with the misuse of confidential information.”​

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He said a lawyer from Bragg’s office told him on April 19 that his book exposed him to criminal liability, even though Pomerantz is “certain” that he “broke no laws.” (Me: Well with the publication of the book he's attempting to close the barn door after the horse got away).​

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“I’ve never had a more obstructive and less cooperative witness in my over 20 years in Congress,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who is on the House Judiciary Committee, told reporters on May 12.​

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Issa said Pomerantz “simply appeared” and seemed to have taken the Fifth on “every single question,” and “answered no substantive questions whatsoever.” He also “clearly appears unwilling to answer any questions even about previous statements he’s made,” Issa said.​

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“We respect someone’s Fifth Amendment rights, but it’s very clear that this witness came with a clear intention of obstructing us,” he told reporters. “When his opening statement becomes public, I think we’ll make it clear that he has disdain for this body and has no intention of answering any of our questions.”​

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Former Prosecutor Against Trump Takes the Fifth in Deposition Before GOP Committee

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Trump took the 5th 400 times and you didn't have a problem with that.

 

[Arlette]

Biden made how much from China? Let that balloon fly over America, But Trump did "stuff".

Trump cooked the books

 

[toobfreak]

Prosecutor Against Trump Takes the Fifth​

That makes no sense at all.

A). As an officer of the court, what could possibly be construed as criminal or illegal in discussing the details of your case unless you broke the law in doing so? In effect, that means the court broke the law in prosecuting the law!

B). The 5th Amendment was construed as a right of the INDIVIDUAL to protect against self-incrimination against the government! IMO, if you are WORKING for the government or were at the time of the question at hand, you should have no right to take the 5th! That is in effect the government protecting itself FROM itself as the government is not a private individual.

IMO, this prosecutor should have no right to take the 5th and should be locked up and prosecuted for refusing to answer questions about how the government operated against a private individual.

 

[toobfreak]

Trump took the 5th 400 times and you didn't have a problem with that.

Trump took the 5th once against all questions. After that, they kept asking him hundreds of questions anyway. Read my post above for what the difference is.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Trump took the 5th once against all questions. After that, they kept asking him hundreds of questions anyway. Read my post above for what the difference is.

Trump has suggested on many occasions that people who invoke their right against self-incrimination are guilty. “You see the mob takes the Fifth,” Trump said during a 2016 rally in Iowa. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”