butters
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my heart frikken' bleeds.“President Trump will be placed in the untenable position of fully litigating this case and risking his criminal defense, or pleading the Fifth Amendment and hampering his chance of success in this case,” they wrote, referring to the civil suit.
They noted that Trump is presumed innocent in a criminal case even if he invokes his constitutional right to not testify, but a judge or a jury can draw a “negative connotation” if a defendant invokes that shield in a civil case.
the lawyer for the civil suit says nuh-huh:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=0cfed90e9ce24a9ffa0feba0cadb602b&ei=34“There is no legitimate reason that both proceedings cannot continue on parallel paths, especially since no discovery has yet been initiated in the civil case. At the end of the day, all we need to prove is that a preponderance of the evidence demonstrates Trump’s liability for the death of US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and we do not need a guilty criminal verdict to do so,” attorney Mark Zaid said in a statement.
does team trump feel like Stretch Armstrong? stretching thinner by the day