12/16/21: Tucker Carlson has been busy pushing the idea that the Jan. 6 riot was some kind of liberal scam. The special he helped produce on the subject, Patriot Purge, puts the best possible light on events of that day.
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“The mob takes the Fifth Amendment.”
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In the real world Professor John
Eastman, self-professed “Constitutional scholar,” who advised Trump on a scheme
to have Vice President Pence refuse to count all the pesky electoral votes,
notified the Congressional committee investigating the attack that he would plead the Fifth if called to testify.
Eastman is not to be confused with Jeffrey Clark, former top official at the Department of Justice. Clark is the DOJ official who was pushing others to have the 2020 election declared tainted.
Trump could demand a do-over, or simply insist he won, and lock the Biden family and their dogs out of the White House.
Mr. Clark was scheduled to testify in a closed session on December 4, but his lawyer said he wasn’t feeling well, and would like to talk on December 16. Or never would be good. Clark’s lawyer did point out that his client would also plead the Fifth.
As The Hill reports:
The House Jan. 6 panel had
planned to convene a special Saturday deposition for Clark, where they stressed
he must assert the right on a question-by-question basis or risk a full House
vote to censure him and refer him for prosecution by the very agency where he
spent a large part of his career.
For example, if asked by the panel, “Do you say ‘potato’ or
‘po-tah-to,’ Mr. Clark?” The witness could not just reflexively plead the
Fifth.
Rep. Liz Cheney, one of only two Republicans with the courage to serve on the panel, explains:
And if you think about that in
the context of questions we’re asking — which have to do with his discussions
with President Trump about the election — and if he feels that he can’t answer
those questions about discussions with Donald Trump because he’s worried that
he could be facing criminal prosecution, the American people deserve to know
that.
Alex Jones thought pleading the Fifth sounded like so much fun, that he, too announced he would be refusing to answer any questions put to him by members of the congressional panel.
Roger Stone agreed. The seven-time-convicted-felon, later pardoned by Trump, former advisor to the aforesaid former president, announced that the Fifth would work for him, too.
Steve Bannon said, “f—k it.” He just wouldn’t show up.
FUN FACT: You know who once said, “The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
President Trump.
Know who took the Fifth in court on 97 separate occasions, when asked during divorce proceedings about marital infidelity?
Citizen Trump.
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