Front-running Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has implied that, if called to testify at President Trump's impeachment trial, he will avail himself of his Fifth Amendment right not to take the witness stand.
As an experienced lawyer and former head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden would have known the implication of his contradictory remarks reported Dec. 28.
Biden said that he would refuse to testify at the trial, but later issued a statement that he has always complied with lawful subpoenas. So either he intends to say that a subpoena from the Senate, where he served as a Delaware lawmaker for many years, is somehow technically flawed or he plans to show up but to say nothing -- which is his right under the Fifth Amendment if he believes he could face prosecution for his Ukraine activities.
As an experienced lawyer and former head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden would have known the implication of his contradictory remarks reported Dec. 28.
Biden said that he would refuse to testify at the trial, but later issued a statement that he has always complied with lawful subpoenas. So either he intends to say that a subpoena from the Senate, where he served as a Delaware lawmaker for many years, is somehow technically flawed or he plans to show up but to say nothing -- which is his right under the Fifth Amendment if he believes he could face prosecution for his Ukraine activities.
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