“I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question. When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice. Accordingly, under the advice of my counsel and for all of the above reasons, I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.”

After the events of the past few days in Congress, you could be forgiven for assuming that this quote came from America’s COVID bogeyman Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Whatever you think of him, Fauci has certainly been the subject of a witch hunt.

And let’s be honest here: who hasn’t thought that someone pleading the Fifth must have something to hide?

In many cases, they probably do.

But the quote did not come from the 85-year-old former chief medical adviser, who invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times in an uncomfortable hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on July 29.

It came from Donald Trump, 80, who reportedly benefitted from his constitutional right against self-incrimination 440 times on........

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