'Day after day in the unfolding Mar-a-Lago scandal, Trump's own words have added evidence of criminal wrongdoing that could cost him a lot more than money.'
Timeline of Trump's Lies: The Mar-a-Lago Papers and 'Consciousness of Guilt'
Day after day in the unfolding Mar-a-Lago scandal, Trump's own words have added evidence of criminal wrongdoing that could cost him a lot more than money.Former president Donald Trump is unleashing a barrage of contradictory lies about the FBI's search of a possible crime scene – Mar-a-Lago. As each lie collapses under the weight of incontrovertible facts, he moves on to a new one. In 2018, Trump adviser Steve Bannon"The real opposition is the media.
Except this time Trump's very real opposition is the U.S. Department of Justice, and federal prosecutors are not so easily distracted. With every lie that Trump tells and then abandons, he creates new evidence of what prosecutors call"consciousness of guilt" – a defendant's post-crime conduct indicating an awareness that he or she committed the offense.
Ironically, as Trump spun his Mar-a-Lago lies, he sat for a deposition in the New York attorney general's civil suit that threatens his wealth. Trump refused to answer every question, except his name. He asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incriminationYet day after day in the unfolding Mar-a-Lago scandal, Trump's own words have added evidence of criminal wrongdoing that could cost him a lot more than money.
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