Sure they did!
Why do you think CNN calls him a discredited felon without mentioning they mean he plead guilty to what was essentially trespassing?
And, as we have seen, true or not, it simply allows them to buy more time, obfuscate, obscure, filibuster, etc.
Which is what they want to do anyway, because if you make them talk about the video itself and its content...they can’t deny what it is. (Though I did hear one significant source in the Democratic Party say “These were conceptual conversations”.
Really. They DID say that.