Trump Invokes The 5^th At Tish James’ Office, But Wait What.….

Donald Trump attend­ed New York Attorney General Letisha James’ Manhattan offices and did what any cow­ard with some­thing to hide would do under the cir­cum­stances, invoke the 5^th.
Admittedly, invok­ing the 5^th amend­ment right to remain silent is pro­vid­ed for in the US con­sti­tu­tion. Additionally, it [does not] infer that the per­son invok­ing their 5^th amend­ment right to remain silent is guilty of a crime, far from it.
The 5^th amend­ment to the con­sti­tu­tion was designed to pro­tect the inno­cent from self-incrimination.
But that is in crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings. Donald Trump was not at Tish James’ offices in a crim­i­nal mat­ter; he was there in rela­tion to civ­il pro­ceed­ings being inves­ti­gat­ed by the New York Attorney General.
Unfortunately for Donald Trump and his min­ions who argue that he had every right to clam up, the bar in civ­il cas­es as it per­tains to rea­son­able doubt is low­er than in crim­i­nal proceedings.
Now, full dis­clo­sure, I am not a lawyer; nev­er­the­less, in civ­il lit­i­ga­tions, a witness’s invo­ca­tion of the Fifth Amendment may give rise to an adverse infer­ence “when inde­pen­dent evi­dence exists of the fact to which the par­ty refus­es to answer.”
In oth­er words, as long as there is evi­dence of cul­pa­bil­i­ty inde­pen­dent of what the respon­dent would answer to, tak­ing the 5^th essen­tial­ly is looked at as evi­dence of guilt.

Nevertheless, some are more guilty than oth­ers and have more to hide. So tak­ing the fifth for those indi­vid­u­als takes on a dif­fer­ent mean­ing. I can­not open my mouth because I will be found out, caught like a fish on a hook, even though I repeat­ed­ly said only the guilty take the 5^th..
While debat­ing Hillary Clinton in 2016, Donald Trump declared that Clinton’s staff took the 5^th because they were guilty.
He blast­ed the 5^th amend­ment repeat­ed­ly, declar­ing that only the Mafia (Mob) takes the 5^th. But don’t take it from me; hear it from the creep­’s own trap.
Anyway!!! Democrats are hope­less­ly hor­ri­ble at mes­sag­ing. Lacking in grasp­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties. Lacking in rec­og­niz­ing open­ings. Lacking in cohe­sion. Lacking in the abil­i­ty to seize oppor­tu­ni­ties. Lacking in rec­og­niz­ing that the oth­er par­ty is play­ing chess while it plays check­ers. Who will mobi­lize the mass­es of the American peo­ple who do not sub­scribe to Fascism? Most of the vot­ers in 2020 vot­ed for the Democrats, yet no one knows who or what the Democrats are. Even the Democratic pres­i­dent and Senators talk about the Democrats must do this, must do that. If they are not the Democrats, who is? Now, do you under­stand why the Republicans keep get­ting their way despite being a minor­i­ty party?

On the oth­er hand, the minor­i­ty par­ty sticks to their guns, fig­u­ra­tive­ly and literally.
Remember when Barack Obama was demo­nized for say­ing they cling to Bibles and guns? No, how about when Hillary said they were deplorable?
No?
You real­ly need to pay atten­tion; pol­i­tics affects every aspect of your life.
The Fascist Republicans invoked more than the 5^th; they pur­chased most of the over 400 mil­lion guns in the hands of cit­i­zens of the United States and are now call­ing for civ­il war.
But what about law and order? Weren’t they sup­posed to be the law-and-order par­ty? What hap­pened? Oh, I see they are only for law and order when it per­tains to every­one else, not to them.
Got it!
The Republican par­ty and its Racist, Xenophobic, Islamaphobic, Homophobic, and Transphobic lead­ers and sup­port­ers all under­stand the mis­sion; they act and speak as a monolith.
Every one of his sup­port­ers under­stands the assign­ment. They know that, like most of them, Donald Trump is an absolute dunce; nev­er­the­less, he has the abil­i­ty to mobi­lize the mass­es and win a gen­er­al elec­tion. This effec­tive­ly places white suprema­cy square­ly in the white house, appro­pri­ate­ly named, and in every fed­er­al agency, includ­ing the fed­er­al judiciary.

LOOK AT THE PROPAGANDIST LANGUAGE HE USES, LANGUAGE DESIGNED TO DELIBERATELY INCITE; ON THIS, HE IS A GENIUS.

After the FBI raid on his estate in Florida, here is what he said. I doubt seri­ous­ly that he has the abil­i­ty to put this state­ment togeth­er. Still, the bel­li­cos­i­ty and the abil­i­ty to use words to incite and prop­a­gate alter­na­tive facts seem like, at the very least, he dic­tat­ed it.
I cor­rect­ed some of the punc­tu­a­tion and high­light­ed the areas that I ask you to con­sid­er in red. I did not alter or change the text. He is a mas­ter manip­u­la­tor, the likes of whom we have not seen in our life­time. He is extreme­ly dan­ger­ous to Democracy and the prin­ci­ples of Democracy that have guid­ed the world order after the sec­ond world war end­ed in 1945.

HIS STATEMENT

These are dark times for our Nation, as my beau­ti­ful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is cur­rent­ly under siege, raid­ed, and occu­pied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever hap­pened to a President of the United States before. After work­ing and coop­er­at­ing with the rel­e­vant Government agen­cies, this unan­nounced raid on my home was not nec­es­sary or appro­pri­ate. It is pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al mis­con­duct, the weaponiza­tion of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who des­per­ate­ly don’t want me to run for President in 2024, espe­cial­ly based on recent polls, and who will like­wise do any­thing to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcom­ing Midterm Elections. Such an assault could only take place in bro­ken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those coun­tries, cor­rupt at a lev­el not seen before. They even broke into my safe! What is the dif­fer­ence between this and Watergate, where oper­a­tives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45^th President of the United States.

The polit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the now ful­ly debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and so much more; it just nev­er ends. It is polit­i­cal tar­get­ing at the high­est level!

Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E‑mails AFTER they were sub­poe­naed by Congress. Absolutely noth­ing has hap­pened to hold her account­able. She even took antique fur­ni­ture and oth­er items from the White House.

I stood up to America’s bureau­crat­ic cor­rup­tion. I restored pow­er to the peo­ple and tru­ly deliv­ered for our Country like we have nev­er seen before. The estab­lish­ment hat­ed it. Now, as they watch my endorsed can­di­dates win big vic­to­ries and see my dom­i­nance in all polls, they are try­ing to stop me and the Republican Party once more. The law­less­ness, polit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion and Witch Hunt must be exposed and stopped.

I will con­tin­ue to fight for the Great American People! (Donald Trump)

Might I remind you as you assim­i­late what he said and con­sid­er the high­light­ed parts of his state­ment that you process it against the back­ground that Donald Trump broke a num­ber of laws as pres­i­dent, from the emol­u­ments clause to incit­ing a mob to attack and over­throw the con­sti­tut­ed order of the United States to remain in pow­er after he lost the 2020 pres­i­den­tial elections.
No pres­i­dent in our life­time has come remote­ly close to being this law­less. The sup­port that Senate, House, and oth­er Republicans give to this real­ly dan­ger­ous threat to American democ­ra­cy high­lights the grave dan­ger of ever allow­ing this polit­i­cal par­ty and Donald Trump polit­i­cal pow­er ever again.

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.This sto­ry was updat­ed from it’s orig­i­nal publication.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.