That’s not how that works lol. You are called to testify, you are legally required to do it or face jail. You answer questions truthfully. It’s not a set up, it’s what happens to ANYONE who committed, helped commit, witnessed, or otherwise, a crime.
The “set up” was to ask incriminating questions to someone too dumb to plead the 5th.
My understanding is they can’t plead the 5th. Well they can but the judge can assume the worst of they do use it.
Apparently because it’s civil not criminal it works different.
He might have still been better off pleading the 5th and losing the civil trial than he will be testifying, probably losing the civil trial anyway, and also opening himself to potential criminal liability.
True, but lucky for us, he’s a dumbshit.
They lost the civil trial already by willful disregard of the courts requests and blatant misdirection. This whole show is just to determine how much they owe. While it might be pedantic, it is fairly critical to getting the story right as to what is happening.
It’s why the questioning is going the way it is going. They could go deeper on certain questions, but the facts are already mostly clear. It doesn’t stop them from focusing on who of this gang might have lied.
Yeah, guilt can be inferred when pleading the 5th in a civil trial because you are effectively refusing to refute anything said against you.
I think they put it in quotes because it isn’t truly a setup, but I agree that it’s still a horrible choice of words.
Same thing happened with Mueller and all the claims of a “perjury trap.” It isn’t a trap when the prosecutor asks someone under oath if they committed a crime related to the current trial. It’s literally upholding the law.
If the only options a defendant has, are to say they committed a crime under oath, or lie, then they did commit a crime.
“Perjury trap” was definitely one of the more ridiculous things they came up with. It’s easy to not be caught in such a thing by not lying.
I don’t know anything about the legal details - besides what I’ve read on the internet, aka RESEARCH - but I unfortunately watched the clip of Junior getting interviewed about his knowledge of GAAP and, in my opinion, the prosecutor laughed and played along with his “jokes” and he of course loved the positive attention and let his guard down. To some degree that seemed like a pretty good “set-up”, but just like everything else, in a totally legal and normal to court proceedings way.
If you suspect a witness of being an accessory to a crime, then of course a competent prosecutor would “set up” that witness to jeopardize themselves. Admitting to a crime isn’t a defense against prosecution.
Get em
Highway to the DonJr zone
“I wasn’t paying attention to the fraud I was legally responsible for”
Bole strategy Cotton, let’s watch it blow up on him.
remember how he committed a crime years ago when he was named in the mueller report but wasn’t convicted because he was “too dumb to know he committed a crime” aka he was rich, male, and white?
“The judge can take findings and say, ‘I don’t believe that he didn’t remember that. I don’t believe that he was relying on the accountants. The story doesn’t make any sense.’”
Is it really that implausible that Donald Jr. didn’t actually know or care what was going on? He’s not exactly know for his diligence. With that said, negligence might still be enough to get him into legal trouble. (I don’t know the relevant law well.)
You tricked me into confessing a crime by asking about the crime and having me answer truthfully.
Later that night Daddy yells and asks why he didn’t lie on the stand.
