.MaddowBlog: Roger Stone becomes the third Trump insider to plead the Fifth.
that he, too, was invoking the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination as lawmakers investigated the Russia scandal.
In December 2021, after two Republican lawyers close to the former president — Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman —as part of the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, Stone is once again doing the same thing. The decision means there are now three people in the former president's inner circle who have said they'll refuse to answer questions about the Jan. 6 attack for fear that their answers may be used against them in possible criminal proceedings.
As for the politics, as recently as 2016, it was Trump himself who derided those who asserted their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination."The mob takes the Fifth Amendment," the then-candidate: This controversy is unrelated to the criminal matter from early last year, when a jury convicted the Republican operative of multiple crimes, including obstruction, lying to investigators, and witness tampering.
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