“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” (Donald Trump on a 2016 Iowa campaign stop).It had to be a trying week for the former President. At a scheduled deposition in New York on August 10, Trump had to respond to accusations of providing lenders, insurers, and tax authorities misleading financial statements. His response during 4 hours of questioning was to “take the Fifth.” His concern about self-incrimination follows the pattern of the Trump Organization’s Eric Trump and CFO Allen Wesselberg in the same matter in 2020. At their deposition, they invoked their Fifth Amendment rights over 500 ...