Trump and the Fifth Amendment: It's complicated

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In 1990, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination by refusing to answer 97 questions in a divorce deposition. But last year, he ripped into Hillary Clinton aides repeatedly for exercising the same privilege during the congressional investigation into her private email server.

"The mob takes the Fifth," Trump told a campaign crowd in Iowa last September. "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"

Now, it's Trump's fired national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who is invoking the Fifth, hoping to avoid handing over documents to a Senate panel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

The White House has so far kept quiet about Flynn's move. But Democrats are eagerly circulating Trump's past comments suggesting sinister motives for it.

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1. It's not complicated .. the 5th for me -- but not for thee n/t