Many people in the GOP leadership want Trump to go away but they are too fearful of MAGA zombies to say so in public. In private, these Republicans are just hoping he dies ASAP.
The thing is that they had a golden opportunity to keep him out of the White House permanently at the second impeachment trial in 2021 — but at the trial Mitch McConnell failed to support conviction.
Despite the DeSantis surge, Trump is still the favorite for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Meanwhile, he continues to demonstrate why he would be a terrible candidate.
Trump pleaded the fifth more than 400 times in fraud deposition, video shows
Video released on Tuesday showed Donald Trump answering questions from the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, in a deposition in a civil fraud case late last summer.
Questioned about his financial affairs, the former president repeatedly invoked his fifth-amendment right against self-incrimination – part of a refusal to answer he repeated more than 400 times.
“Anyone in my position not taking the fifth amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,” Trump said.
Trump previously associated the Fifth Amendment with The Mob.
"If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" – Donald J. Trump [Council Bluffs, Iowa - 28 September 2016]
Good question, Donny!
Can hardly wait for the 2024 Democratic attack ads showing Trump’s 2016 comments followed by footage of him constantly taking the Fifth.
