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  • First, the goddamned video clip ends before Epstein actually exercises the 5th. Bad journalists, bad!

    Second, do not take any of my comments here as a defense of Epstein. Take them as a defense of Fifth Amendment protections that we all (in the US) possess.

    The way I interpret this, answering that question would have implicated himself (Epstein) so he did not answer it.

    Still not quite right. Answering that question may have implicated himself. Because answering any question may implicate the person being questioned in a deposition. Ideally, pleading the Fifth on any question shouldn’t cast shadows on the pleader, but that’s not how the investigators or prosecutors or jury or public perceive it.

    On top of that, answering some questions and taking the Fifth on others is most definitely an even worse look, even though it shouldn’t be.









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    My wife has accused me of mansplaining when I really was just sharing the information I had in my head about “the thing” because I was proud of myself about that.

    There’s also the “You may already know all this, but it’s worth saying out loud anyway.”

    I’m not saying mansplaining isn’t a thing - it certainly is - but there are other innocent “info dump” kinds of things that can look like mansplaining but weren’t intended to be. I try to be very clear about why I am info dumping when I do, but I’m not always able to catch myself in time.

    #TouchOfTheTism