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Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, informed the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that he will not be cooperating with any requests to appear before the panel for its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and would plead the Fifth, according to a source familiar with the matter.

A former naval-officer-turned-energy consultant, Page came under fire last year after reports emerged that he had met with high-level associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2016. While Page denied those meetings occurred, the Trump campaign distanced itself from the adviser not long after, with former officials saying that Page and Trump had never met.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/10/carter-page-russia-probe-243648

 

[HotHamBoy]

Nothing to hide

 

[Magwik]

So he will just make it worse for himself then?

 

[Username1198]

A traitor says what?

 

[FullMetaltech]

LOL. He's got 5 on it!

 

[Hubbl3]

Has he had a sit-down with Mueller yet?

 

[Zetta]

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Checkmate, libtards.

 

[SolarPowered]

Squeeze this motherfucking piggy. I wanna hear him squeal.

 

[Turbo Killer]

But what does he have to hide?

 

[Captain Tuttle]

Has he had a sit-down with Mueller yet?

The million dollar question

 

[Ravensmash]

This amendment makes no sense to me.

It's a great way of saying "I've done shit but fuck you".

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

He's either already talking to Mueller and Mueller told him to not talk to the others.

or he has no sense of self preservation.

 

[sunshine and gasoline]

Brilliant strategy. Nothing to hide.

 

[cameron]

Page was eager for the committee’s attention earlier this year, when he showed up of his own volition to the panel’s secure office spaces on Capitol Hill to drop off a document he created alleging that he was the target of a smear campaign by Hillary Clinton’s aides. Clinton and her associates, Page alleged in his document — which he also shopped around to news organizations — were committing a hate crime against him by planting false stories about his ties to Russia, Page said. He was being targeted, he wrote in the document, because he was a Catholic male.

lol @ Page.

 

[Darknight]

So....whats next for him?

Like can Mueller do anything to talk?

 

[John Rabbit]

I mean Anderson Cooper almost had this guy blow a circuit, can you imagine him providing courtroom testimony?

 

[jelly]

Does that get him off the hook. Can you really just say nothing and get away with it?

 

[BlackDoomShadow]

Reminder that Trump said pleading the fifth means you're guilty.

 

[zeemumu]

Does that get him off the hook. Can you really just say nothing and get away with it?

He just doesn't have to testify against himself, but it's still not a good look

 

[Darknight]

Reminder that Trump said pleading the fifth means you're guilty.

If that is true, please have that on blast on media channels. (Media, not you lol)

 

[True Fire]

Does that get him off the hook. Can you really just say nothing and get away with it?

Not at all. There's probably a mountain of evidence against him, he just has the right to not add to it.

 

[WedgeX]

As always:

The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...h-trump-said-years-after-invoking-it-himself/

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

This amendment makes no sense to me.

It's a great way of saying "I've done shit but fuck you".

It's really just speaking out loud that you're remaining silent, which is a pretty common right across the world

 

[Ravensmash]

It's really just speaking out remaining silent. Pretty common across the world

I admit that I don't know the equivalent of where I am (UK) but isn't it wiser to just say, anything admitted in X trial can't be used to initiate Y trial?

Obviously we have the right to remain silent, but specifically in a court case or lawsuit.

 

[Hubbl3]

As always:



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...h-trump-said-years-after-invoking-it-himself/

$1 says no one holds Trump accountable for ever having said this

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

I admit that I don't know the equivalent of where I am (UK) but isn't it wiser to just say, anything admitted in X trial can't be used to initiate Y trial?

Obviously we have the right to remain silent, but specifically in a court case or lawsuit.

That'd only work in the absence of the public but I believe deals of the sort exist already.

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

 

[Ithil]

It won't save him.

 

[borghe]

This amendment makes no sense to me.

It's a great way of saying "I've done shit but fuck you".

There’s two aspects to it. In the one hand, they can’t force you to say stuff that’s only going to get you in trouble.

On the other hand, you don’t get to offer any sort of defense for yourself.

“Here is a picture of Carter Page meeting with known Russian operatives”. You don’t get to make he admit he met with them, but he also doesn’t get a chance to say “we were just there for intercourse. Nothing political.

Typically people plead the fifth as a way to not have to rat out a higher up. Hilariously, it practically never accomplishes much outside of dragging stuff out.

He’s still going to go to jail. It will just be because of someone else.

Edit - I’m also not sure he can refuse a subpoena on the grounds of the fifth amendment. You can refuse to answer specific questions as they relate to you, but if they ask “did person a meet with person b”, as neither of those people you can’t plead the fifth.

 

[Zophar]

You're supposed to commit to this well *before* you make a public and deeply incriminating ass of yourself, Carter.

 

[B-Dubs]

 

[Kadin]

There’s two aspects to it. In the one hand, they can’t force you to say stuff that’s only going to get you in trouble.

On the other hand, you don’t get to offer any sort of defense for yourself.

“Here is a picture of Carter Page meeting with known Russian operatives”. You don’t get to make he admit he met with them, but he also doesn’t get a chance to say “we were just there for intercourse. Nothing political.

Typically people plead the fifth as a way to not have to rat out a higher up. Hilariously, it practically never accomplishes much outside of dragging stuff out.

He’s still going to go to jail. It will just be because of someone else.

Edit - I’m also not sure he can refuse a subpoena on the grounds of the fifth amendment. You can refuse to answer specific questions as they relate to you, but if they ask “did person a meet with person b”, as neither of those people you can’t plead the fifth.

As to your edit, I'm pretty sure he can simply respond as, "I don't remember." That seems to have worked out well over the past few sessions.

 

[Shadybiz]

I mean Anderson Cooper almost had this guy blow a circuit, can you imagine him providing courtroom testimony?

Oh that was great...you could almost SEE the beads of sweat forming.

For those who haven't had the pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ZcZ7s-3O8

 

[ascii42]

As to your edit, I'm pretty sure he can simply respond as, "I don't remember." That seems to have worked out well over the past few sessions.

I see what you did there.

 

[Scirrocco]

So he will just make it worse for himself then?

To be fair, if,you look at how much worse he made it for himself by being on news programs and acting guilty as hell, this is probably making it better for him by a large margin.

 

[RawNuts]