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The Counsel

Note From Elie: In Defense of the Fifth

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Note From Elie is part of the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter. Audio recordings of Elie’s Note are part of the CAFE Insider subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.4

Hey everyone, happy Friday.

0:33.2

Ellie here with my weekly note to the cafe community.

0:36.0

As always, I love hearing back from you.

0:37.9

So send me any thoughts to letters at cafe.com.

1:00.3

A former president of the United States invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination last week. If you missed it or forgot about it, you're forgiven. Somehow it has already become a

1:06.1

small-fant legal story in the swirl of other unprecedented scandals involving search warrants, the

1:11.9

Espionage Act, and insurrection.

1:14.5

When Donald Trump took the fifth during a deposition by the New York Attorney General's

1:17.9

office, he sparked a predictable Twitter dunk fest.

1:21.8

As many noted gleefully, Trump himself previously had proclaimed that, quote, the mob takes

1:26.8

the fifth,, quote,

1:27.9

if you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment? I get it. And I'm with you. Just as any person

1:32.8

has the right to take the fifth, so too does the public have the right to deride the hypocrisy,

1:37.7

particularly when it comes from a man who recently held the most powerful office in the world.

1:42.4

But once we get past the finger pointing and the laughing, here's the reality.

1:46.4

Trump has every right to invoke the Fifth Amendment and given his current circumstances,

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