If Trump says "uh" the first time then says "um" the second, they'll proclaim "Trump changes his testimony"
Martha Stewart was a classic example of a Perjury Trap, they couldn’t tie her to insider trading or any of the financial crimes they were going after her, but they got her for answering “no” to a question to the investigators when asked if she had received a phone a call from a certain investment broker. The thing is, the broker had left a voice mail, so she may very well have answered truthfully having never listened to the message. But she did “receive” a phone call and the fact she said “no” was enough to charge and convict her on that alone.
Just say hell NO !
Everything you need to know on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Even when you are innocent and tell the complete truth, anything can happen.
Dershowitz is clear that if Trump is interviewed, he’ll walk in to a “perjury trap”.
A country in which the perjury trap exists and is allowed to continue is a country in which the government is a fascist dictatorship.
I agree that Flynn was railroaded, but McCarthy completely overlooks an obvious point here (which is surprising because he himself is a former prosecutor).
The FBI had the recordings he describes, but since they were obtained through a FISA counterintelligence warrant they would not be admissible in court for a criminal prosecution. This is why the FBI had to obtain independent evidence of what they already knew from the recording.
I suspect this is why Flynn's sentencing has been delayed at least three times. If the only evidence of his "lying to the FBI" is a recording obtained through a FISA warrant, then that's one thing. But since we're now learning that the FISA warrants to conduct surveillance against people connected to the Trump campaign were obtained illicitly (and maybe fraudulently), then the underlying evidence against Flynn is tainted and he has all the legal standing he needs to vacate his plea deal. I'm sure Mueller knows this, too -- which is why Flynn hasn't been sentenced.
The FBI has policies against their own agents being recorded.
If you wish to avoid an FBI interview, merely tell them it will be recorded. They will refuse to conduct the interview.
I had it happen to me. I had some information that I wished to give the FBI shortly after 9/11. I said I wanted to record the interview. They told me if I insisted on recording, there would be no interview.
Trump will walk into the Trap. His Hubris will be his downfall.
The Fifth Amendment states: “nor shall any person…be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
Seems to me the first step into a perjury trap is taking an oath that what one has stated or will state is true. A case against someone for perjury will use the fact of taking such an oath against them, which seems to me, turns that someone into a witness against himself.
What happens if someone refuses to take an oath to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” on the grounds that doing so could be used in a criminal case against him, resulting in him “to be a witness against himself”, even if he’s telling the truth so far as he knows?
I believe under some circumstances one can be held in contempt for not taking such an oath but that seems like compelling one to be a witness against oneself if a charge of perjury is brought.
Well, he is in their heads like a parasite eating away at what little logic they ever had.
The real trap is that even though the President would tell the whole truth, they would find somebody or somebodies to say no that is not true. Of course Mueller would believe these “witnesses” and prosecute. And it is a guilty until proven innocent situation. Also the interview is not recorded. Mueller could state that the President said XYZ when the President said ABC.
Seems to me there is only one to prove this, Bring in 10 High pollutant Journolists, Put them under Oath and have 3 investigators from the FBI question them separately.
I would bet my Last Nickel EVERY ONE would be Charged with Perjury.
To quote Admiral Akbar: "It's a trap!"