Opinion | Trump taking the Fifth should disqualify him from office - The Washington Post - 0 views
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taking the Fifth — especially concerning his alleged misconduct related to the attempted coup — should disqualify him from the presidency.
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a president “has a constitutional as well as a moral duty to see to it that the laws are faithfully executed — not just a passive duty to avoid violating the law, a duty everyone of course shares, but an active duty to ensure that the law is fully enforced as well as complied with. That active duty arguably includes an obligation to avoid invoking various otherwise available privileges — including the privilege to withhold criminally incriminating information.”
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“In that special sense, a president or a former president, more than any other public official or private citizen, arguably betrays his or her duty to the American people by taking the Fifth.”
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