If you plead the fifth, that is not an admission of guilt, and juries are generally advised by judges in those cases to not infer guilt from a defendant or a witness pleading the fifth.

Well, I think in court, you're not supposed to assume the worst.

You're not supposed to assume that someone is guilty.

That doesn't apply in the court of public opinion.

That's a that's a legal conclusion.

And I think even in civil court, you can draw an adverse inference from from someone's failure to testify.

So if someone were to sue Dr. Fauci civilly and he pled the fifth, you can draw an adverse inference from it.

But I thought it was interesting because it was brought up later that there's the possibility that if you don't know, is this even a thing that if you don't know? what the Fifth Amendment is that you're pleading to, that you could invoke it? Or is that just some theatrics in Congress shock that I would be to hear such a thing?

If you plead the fifth, that is not an admission of guilt, and juries are generally advised by judges in those cases to not infer guilt from a defendant or a witness pleading the fifth.

Well, I think in court, you're not supposed to assume the worst.

You're not supposed to assume that someone is guilty.

That doesn't apply in the court of public opinion.

That's a that's a legal conclusion.

And I think even in civil court, you can draw an adverse inference from from someone's failure to testify.

So, you know, if someone were to sue Dr. Fauci civilly and he pled the fifth, you can draw an adverse inference from it.

I think Dr. Fauci made it pretty clear in his opening statement that he holds the body in contempt.