Dolphins' Mike McDaniel brushes off Tom Brady tampering questions ahead of preseason game against Bucs

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Last week, the Miami Dolphins were fined for tampering, as they attempted to get Tom Brady and Sean Payton down to South Florida.

Fittingly, the Dolphins' first preseason game is against Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this Saturday in Tampa, Florida.

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Head coach Mike McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins addresses the media prior to training camp at the Baptist Health Training Complex on July 27, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

However, head coach Mike McDaniel isn't even thinking about what occurred between the team and the quarterback years ago.

"For me, nothing happened," he told reporters on Wednesday.

McDaniel was asked if there was any awkwardness, but McDaniel insinuated that there was no such thing in his own locker room.

"Everyone else is the one making it awkward. It doesn’t occupy a single iota of space with anybody. It’s hard enough to be good in this league."

Dolphins team owner Stephen Ross has been in some heat lately, as former head coach Brian Flores also accused him of offering to pay him $100,000 for every loss the team had in the 2019 season.

Head coach Mike McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins talks to the media prior to the Miami Dolphins mandatory minicamp at the Baptist Health Training Complex on June 7, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

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While the NFL's investigation did not find evidence of bribes, the league did find that Ross felt tanking was in the best interest of the team.

But McDaniel is focused simply on today's football and not even paying attention to the past.

"As the Miami Dolphins, all of our energy is very coordinated and only has to do with us getting better, and everything else would be an opportunity cost that we’re not willing to expend," he said.

The Dolphins, rather than acquiring Brady, drafted Tua Tagovailoa with the sixth pick in 2020. They stuck with Flores through last season.

Head coach Mike McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins, right, talks with Tua Tagovailoa during training camp at the Baptist Health Training Complex on July 27, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

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Saturday will be the first meeting between the two quarterbacks in the NFL, as Tagovailoa was injured when the teams faced each other last season.

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Trump invokes Fifth Amendment to evade questions over alleged fraud

Donald Trump declines to answer questions related to his family business during deposition at New York attorney general's office, saying he has "no choice" but to invoke the constitutional guarantee.

Trump has undergone many depositions, dating to his career as a real estate developer. (AP)

Former US president Donald Trump has invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as he testified under oath in the New York attorney general's long-running civil investigation into his business dealings.

About an hour after arriving at Attorney General Letitia James' Manhattan offices on Wednesday, Trump said he "declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution."

"I once asked, 'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?' Now I know the answer to that question," the statement said. "When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors and the fake news media, you have no choice."

As vociferous as Trump has been in defending himself in written statements and on the rally stage, legal experts said answering questions in a deposition was risky because anything he said could potentially be used against him in a parallel criminal investigation by the Manhattan district attorney. 

The Fifth Amendment protects people from being compelled to become witnesses against themselves in a criminal case.

Also, in case the attorney general's investigation leads to a civil case against Trump and it goes to trial, jurors could be told that he invoked his protection against self-incrimination.

'Mob takes the Fifth'

Wednesday's events unfolded two days after FBI agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as part of an unrelated federal probe into whether he took classified records when he left the White House.

New York's investigation is led by Attorney General James, a Democrat who has said in court filings that her office has uncovered "significant" evidence that Trump's company misled lenders and tax authorities about the value of prized assets like golf courses and skyscrapers.

The company, Trump Organization, even exaggerated the size of Trump's Manhattan penthouse, saying it was nearly three times its actual size — a difference in the value of about $200 million, James' office said.

Trump has denied the allegations, contending that seeking the best valuations is a common practice in the real estate industry. He has also accused Attorney General James, who is Black, of racism in pursuing the investigation.

Trump previously criticised people for exercising Fifth Amendment rights.

"The mob takes the Fifth," Trump said during a 2016 campaign rally. "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"

He was referring to people who had exercised their Fifth Amendment rights in an investigation relating to Democrat Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for official correspondence during her time as secretary of state. 

Clinton was Trump's opponent in the presidential election that year.

Source: TRTWorld and agencies

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