I’ve heard from several sources that, by making the statement, she had already begun testifying and it was too late to take the Fifth. Any legal minds out there who can say whether that’s true?
I’m not a legal eagle, but I spotted several “rental lawyer experts” state that she screwed up by trying to proclaim her innocence and then trying to take the fifth. They are calling her back and if she doesn’t answer the questions charge her with contempt.
She made a HUGE mistake and I think she’s banking on her legal counsel’s poor representation as a way out of this! Any attorney with a brain knows the law RE: 5th Amendment. She broke her protection today—plain and simple.
She’ll claim poor legal representation (albeit tax payer funded).
Bigger issue is poor questions (except Trey Gowdy). They are not asking (or better said posing) questions correctly to forec answers! Get it right REPUBS!!