Posted on 11/10/2021 8:29:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Russian national who served as a primary source for a dossier of negative research about former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he lied to the FBI about the legitimacy of his own sources.
A judge set an April trial date for Igor Danchenko, a former analyst at the Brookings Institution whose lawyer says he’s being maligned in a deliberately false narrative by people with an agenda.
Danchenko’s lawyer, Mark Schamel, said in a statement that the 39-page indictment “presents a false narrative designed to humiliate and slander a renowned expert in business intelligence.”
“Mr. Danchenko is a respected research analyst who uncovered and exposed Vladimir Putin’s plagiarized Ph.D. thesis and whose work has been recognized all over the world for its intellectual rigor and accuracy,” Schamel said. “For the past five years, those with an agenda have sought to expose Mr. Danchenko’s identity and tarnish his reputation. ... We will expose how Mr. Danchenko has been unfairly maligned by these false allegations.”
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How about all the FBI, Democrats and Republicans that ran with this, even after knowing it was all BS?
Analist pleads not guilty to lying about Trump dossier
That lawyer sounds like a terrorist.
Arrest him.
“Analyst”.....
Creating a narrative already. “He was a lone wolf acting on his own....he went rogue.”
Danchenko’s attorney knows that a DC jury of 11 or 12 Democrat activists isn’t going to convict him of anything. The trial will serve only to get facts on the public record, then demonstrate how jury nullification works in a partisan arena.
The other possibility is that the media and Democrats seize on a non-guilty verdict and scream “SEE! SEE!! The Trump dossier was fact!”
. Danchenko is a respected research analyst
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Is ?,
you mean WAS.
I'd say that is highly likely.
Exactly.
I just looked up and noticed that the indictment is in the Eastern District of VA instead of DC. That’s not much better, but leaves a glimmer of hope. Maybe 3 jurors will be leftish independents instead of full DNC or DSA members...
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