Are you being specious on purpose?
There was no sex. There was no talking. They were never in the same stall. Their feet bumped, the Senator picked up somemthing off the floor. He got taken into custody.
I disagree with you and I do think he’s guilty. He displayed the expected non-verbal communication to the officer of someone soliciting sex in a public restroom. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in order not to be publicly exposed. He displayed none of the anger one would expect from someone wrongfully accused of such shameful actions. He did not reveal anything about the incident to anyone, not even his wife.
Aside from all that the man is just too stupid to be a Senator, even a Republican Senator. This is not some illegal Sonoran peasant taken into custody by the gringo police, confessing to crimes he didn’t commit because the police said they would then let him go. This is a US Senator, who is supposed to have some understanding of human character and motivation, of ethics and of the way the world works.
He is someone who is elected to be better than this.