Here’s what happens if NY AG’s team goes 'big in the questioning' against Trump: analyst
President Donald J. Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Iraqi President Barham Salih Tuesday, September 24, 2019, at the Lotte New York Palace in New York City. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead). Original public domain image from Flickr.
Ahead of former President Donald Trump's testimony in his New York civil fraud trial Monday, Inside with Jen Psaki host Jen Psaki spoke with legal analyst Andrew Weissman about what the court can expect from the MAGA hopeful."
Noting that it's possible that Trump pleads the Fifth, Psaki asked Weissman, "What do you think his best tactic here is?"
He replied, "Well, he obviously has to appear in court. He is subpoenaed as a witness, so he will show up. Whether he decides to answer all of the questions I think remains to be seen. And I think some of that goes to the strategy that the attorney general's office uses. Now, as you noted, there are a lot of things that they could cross examine him on that go to the size of his apartment, how he valued Mar-a-Lago — I mean's there are sort of black and white issues that I think it's extremely hard for him to come up with a consistent theory that's not going to get him in trouble."
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Weissman continued, "But they could also go big in the questioning, and ask him about all of the lies that are laid out, according to the government, in the D.C. case and in the Florida case. In other words, it's relevant that the attorney general's office says they are dealing with somebody who sort of lies as we live and breathe. And so I think when it gets to questioning that might go big, he could take the Fifth and say if it relates directly to those outstanding criminal cases, I'm not going to answer. But I think he really is going to be sort of forced to answer strategically because...if he doesn't answer, this whole case is over. The court gets to say, 'I'm finding against you just based on your Fifth amendment.'"
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Here’s what happens if NY AG’s team goes 'big in the questioning' against Trump: analystyoutu.be
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