New Ad Taunts Trump: ‘Take the Stand, Donald, or Admit You’re a Coward’ – The New York Times

As former President Donald J. Trumps criminal trial winds down, a center-left group is trying to goad the Republican presidential candidate into testifying.

Take the stand, Donald, or admit youre a coward, blares a new ad from the group, Third Way, which highlights Mr. Trumps past comment that if youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?

The five-figure digital ad buy is running in all the places Trump will be, said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way. He said the spot would run in New York, especially around Trump Tower and the courthouse, Mar-a-Lago, and in Dallas near the National Rifle Association meeting where Mr. Trump is expected to speak on Saturday.

He has talked tough for years about how only guilty people and mobsters take the Fifth, Mr. Bennett said. Now it appears hes going to do that himself, and we wanted to remind him of that and see if we could taunt him into testifying, frankly, because it might not go well for him if he did that.

Mr. Trumps lawyers told the judge Thursday that he had yet to decide whether he would testify. Mr. Trump has invoked the Fifth Amendment before.

Mr. Trump is charged in this trial with falsifying 34 business records related to the reimbursement of a hush-money payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels. He has denied the charges.

The ad buy was first reported by Politico.

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New Ad Taunts Trump: 'Take the Stand, Donald, or Admit You're a Coward' - The New York Times