Fact-check: “Trump pled the 5th during a deposition with Letitia James.”
Verdict: True (97% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources — including contemporaneous reporting from NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, Fox News, NPR, and CNBC — confirm that on August 10, 2022, Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a deposition conducted by New York Attorney General Letitia James's office as part of her civil fraud investigation into the Trump Organization. Trump's own attorney confirmed he answered essentially no substantive questions, and court filings from…
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