See Times story here.
Donald J. Trump declined to answer questions from the New York state attorney general’s office on Wednesday, a stunning gamble in a high-stakes legal interview that is likely to determine the course of a civil investigation into his company’s business practices.
In a statement released shortly after the questioning began on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, explaining that he “declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.”
As I understand it, this is a civil lawsuit, right? Unlike a criminal case in which declining to testify under the Fifth Amendment is supposed to be disregarded by a jury, in a civil case doing the same thing can be considered an indication of guilt.