What do they expect him to say?
“Yeah, ok,... you caught us. Boy are our faces red!”
“I know nothing!”
memorable line from tv’syesteryears.......
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Id be more suspicious if he didnt deny it.
I dont for a second believe that Maria Butina works for Russian intelligence. The forces going after Trump are the same forces that are maliciously prosecuting her. This is a political prosecution, nothing more, nothing less.
I asked around and nobody knows her...instead of something more typical, simply saying they aren't a spy or weren't engaged in any illegal activities.
All she is accused of is being an unregistered foreign agent.
Another pawn caught up in the anti-Russian ferment of the "Get Trump" moment.
Her big crime is to become involved with a U.S. politician. From CNN:
The Russian national stands accused of working with her mentor, Alexander Torshin, to develop "back channel" communication with US politicians, according to an FBI affidavit.Butina spoke little at her first appearance in court Monday. According to her attorney Robert Driscoll, Butina testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in closed session several months ago and was subject to an FBI raid in April.
"We've been trying to work something out, unsuccessfully, with the government, who seems intent on pressing forward with incarceration, notwithstanding, you know, a pretty weak case," Driscoll said Monday.
So she has been held in jail for eight months on this nothingburger charge.