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Why plead Fifth if you’re innocent?

Trump: Why do you need immunity if you are not guilty?

Flynn: I want immunity.

Trump: Why use the Fifth Amendment if you are not guilty?

Flynn: I am taking the Fifth.

I seem to hear an echo from 2016: “Lock him up.”

Mike Devine

Bluffton

This story was originally published May 25, 2017 at 9:49 PM with the headline "Why plead Fifth if you’re innocent?."

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