Donald J. Trump, the first U.S. president to become a felon, excoriated prosecutors and the judge in his criminal case and ran through a litany of false statements as he spoke to reporters and a small crowd of vetted supporters at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan.
It is absolutely your right to not be sentenced or punished by the state for refusing to testify and that’s fucking important… it absolutely isn’t your right to not be publicly damaged for being an obvious shit-heel who is clearly lying every second they aren’t under oath.
I think it’s important to distinguish those two things.