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Let us have a moment of pity for Eric Trump... (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2022 OP
He's already been deposed. Took the 5th like 500 times. Nevilledog Feb 2022 #1
"Can't your client just plead the Fifth like his son did 500 times," wondered the court? muriel_volestrangler Feb 2022 #2
LOL, Trump's lawyer John Dowd when Mueller requested a depostion, via Bob Woodward, 2Gingersnaps Feb 2022 #3
I'd like to know who exactly is paying his lawyer FoxNewsSucks Feb 2022 #4
I tried, and failed Retired Engineer Bob Feb 2022 #5

muriel_volestrangler

(101,347 posts)
2. "Can't your client just plead the Fifth like his son did 500 times," wondered the court?
Thu Feb 17, 2022, 04:32 PM
Feb 2022

(Yes, actual quote.)

"My client can't take the Fifth Amendment. It'll be all over the papers!" Fischetti thundered, as if having to make the same decision as any other defendant amounts to some kind of unconstitutional coercion.

"He'll want to testify, and I can't have him do that," the lawyer added.

"Can't your client just plead the Fifth like his son did 500 times," wondered the court? (Yes, actual quote.)

"My client is not Eric Trump! My client is Donald Trump," Fischetti literally shouted.

https://www.wonkette.com/trump-lawyers-throw-courtroom-tantrum-in-effort-to-avoid-having-client-testify-in-new-york-inquiry

It really is shameful that a major political party in the USA is controlled by, and seems likely to renominate for president, a clown that his own lawyer has to say on the record he can't trust. I can't see why "being all over the papers" is a problem for Trump, though. He's literally lived his whole adult life for that.

2Gingersnaps

(1,000 posts)
3. LOL, Trump's lawyer John Dowd when Mueller requested a depostion, via Bob Woodward,
Thu Feb 17, 2022, 07:22 PM
Feb 2022

"Trump's pathology would guarantee perjury-and that his ignorance, if revealed, could constitute a national security threat. He's a fucking liar."

FoxNewsSucks

(10,434 posts)
4. I'd like to know who exactly is paying his lawyer
Thu Feb 17, 2022, 07:24 PM
Feb 2022

I can't believe anyone would work for him without getting paid up front.

If it's the RNC, why would their donors allow it?

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