• Professorozone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 hours ago

    So he doesn’t have a 5th amendment right? Well I guess they’ve never really been fans of rights. Hell, half of Trump’s cabinet didn’t even show up for their subpoenas.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      34 minutes ago

      Well I guess they’ve never really been fans of rights.

      Yep. The conservatives loooove to talk about liberty, and freedom and the Constitution. They never mean any of it.

      Easy Rider had their number, and that was nearly 60 years ago…

      “They are gonna talk to you and talk to about individual freedom…”

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zluaB7M_UQ

  • jacksilver@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    5 hours ago

    Isn’t pleading the fifth testifying? I feel like the article does a disservice to treat pleading the fifth as not meeting his obligation to testify, but maybe my understanding is incorrect.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      5 hours ago

      It’s the perfect demonstration that Republicans were just using the hearing to fish for a reason to punish him because they had nothing.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        5 hours ago

        The fact that he was right is the very reason they are so very butthurt. So him telling the truth was only going to enrage magameatheads all the more, since virtually of them peaking in high school.

      • jacksilver@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        5 hours ago

        I don’t know enough about law to have any idea on the merits of that, but it sounds crazy to me.

        Even if they was the case though, how can you prove the pardon covers what he’s claiming the fifth on regarding his testimony?

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          24 minutes ago

          You got me as to the legality of their claims.

          The conservatives are bound and determined to try every bit of clown shoes performative bullshit if they think it will help them and hurt others, though.

          Certainly they don’t care about the truth or any of that. They had to wear masks and see schools and businesses closed down, even if it saved lives. Worst of all, the liberals and experts like Fauci were proven right about Covid, and Donvict was proven wrong, and that is unforgivable to them. So they’ll lie and deflect and try every possible method to “get” people like Fauci.

          All while they turn a blind eye to the obvious and blatant fraud and self-enrichment that Donvict and his crime family are doing right now.