“I made a terrible mistake,” Papadopoulos, 31, said in a statement to Judge Randolph Moss in the Washington, D.C., courtroom.
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Yep. Don’t ever talk to the FBI without your lawyer present.
Too true. But obviously the judge thought the “crime” was ridiculous, too. “Lying to the FBI” basically means that your recollection or even your expression of it differs from what they have decided to be the actual facts (bearing in mind that they weren’t there at the event and this is based on other interviews or on their own fantasies) and doesn’t even have to have any criminal intent.
This shouldn’t even be a crime, and I’m glad the bumbling Papadopoulos (who didn’t even knowingly commit a crime) got just a symbolic sentence for a symbolic crime.