Trump Isn’t the First Gangster to Take the 5th.

So, it turns out that Trump-o is back in a New York courtroom this week and I don’t notice him calling for a turnout of his supporters at all. And I also don’t notice Marge Greene announcing that she’s going to come back to Gotham City and lead a big demo to support her guy.

Trump-o has to show up to be deposed in the lawsuit filed by New York State AG, Letitia James, which is hanging over his head. In fact, the lawsuit is not only hanging over his head, it’s also now going to become an actual trial on October 2nd, which is what this Thursday’s deposition is all about.

The last time Trump-o sat for a deposition in this case, he took the 5th some 400 times. That may have been the very first time that Trump-o kept his mouth shut in any public appearance since he walked down the staircase at Trump Tower in front of a group of rent-me-for-an-hour rallygoers and announced his Presidential campaign.

Back in 1951, when the McCarthyite stench was beginning to get out of control on Capitol Hill, the government decided to go after another threat known as ‘the mob.’ A Senate committee led by Estes Kefauver held a series of public hearings, one of which featured the testimony of Carlos Marcello, the 5-foot, 6-inch head of the New Orleans mob. Of course, his nickname was ‘the little man.’

Marcello’s testimony, delivered on January 25, 1951, consisted of taking the 5th Amendment 152 times. This may have been the all-time record for anyone refusing to incriminate…