They acknowledged that the Russian Collusion scam was fake. His defense said that he didn’t know that at the time he went to the FBI. He went in a good faith effort to expose the collusion. Had he known it was fake he would not have gone. He was going as a private citizen not as a part of the Hillary campaign. I know it is BS, but it is hard to prove he was acting for the campaign or on his own. I do know that it is a pretty big deal that people on her campaign are now acknowledging that the collusion deal was false.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/01/the-special-counsel-proved-the-fbi-belongs-to-the-swamp/
Yet Baker blamed himself for throwing Sussmann “into a maelstrom” and expressed outrage at how the congressmen investigating the investigation into Trump and his campaign behaved when they questioned Baker about his meeting with Sussmann. Baker displayed not even a sliver of the same distress over his friend lying to him.
On the contrary, when asked why he had just discovered the text message Sussmann sent him the night before their meeting, in which Sussmann wrote, “I’m coming on my own – not on behalf of a client or company. [W]ant to help the Bureau,” Baker told prosecutors: “I’m not out to get Michael. This is not my investigation. This is your investigation. If you ask me a question, I answer it. You asked me to look for something, I go look for it.”