I have a question about the line in the 2nd line.
if he 'vehemently denied it,' we just dropped it usually."
Does it mean "if the suspect denied the charges, we stop investigating"???
Or "we ignore his denial"??

Since leaving office, Bharara has chosen Trump's favorite form of media to fire back at him and his policies: Twitter. Bharara says he created a personal Twitter account by happenstance a few days before he was fired not knowing what was about to happen. When he was fired, it was the easiest and quickest way to get the news out. His first tweet as a private citizen reads: "I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life."

Bharara has also weighed in on a number of issues in the months since he was fired, including the ongoing federal investigation into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 election. When Trump tweeted, "I strongly pressed President (Vladimir) Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I've already given my opinion..." after he met with Putin at the G20 summit in July, Bharara tweeted in response: "When pursuing a corrupt politician, mobster or murderer on strong FBI evidence, if he 'vehemently denied it,' we just dropped it usually."

"We don't really do that," Bharara quipped in his CNN interview. "It's a standard principle in the world that when people are accused of things that they don't want to be accused of, they say, 'I didn't do it.'"

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I have a question about the line in the 2nd line.
if he 'vehemently denied it,' we just dropped it usually."
Does it mean "if the suspect denied the charges, we stop investigating"???
Or "we ignore his denial"??


Since leaving office, Bharara has chosen Trump's favorite form of media to fire back at him and his policies: Twitter. Bharara says he created a personal Twitter account by happenstance a few days before he was fired not knowing what was about to happen. When he was fired, it was the easiest and quickest way to get the news out. His first tweet as a private citizen reads: "I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life."

Bharara has also weighed in on a number of issues in the months since he was fired, including the ongoing federal investigation into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 election. When Trump tweeted, "I strongly pressed President (Vladimir) Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I've already given my opinion..." after he met with Putin at the G20 summit in July, Bharara tweeted in response: "When pursuing a corrupt politician, mobster or murderer on strong FBI evidence, if he 'vehemently denied it,' we just dropped it usually."

"We don't really do that," Bharara quipped in his CNN interview. "It's a standard principle in the world that when people are accused of things that they don't want to be accused of, they say, 'I didn't do it.'"

jalypso · Accepted Answer

Well it's followed by him saying "We don't really do that", so perhaps he was not being entirely truthful/correct when he said that they usually drop it

jalypso · Answer

It's closer to "if the suspect denied the charges, we stop investigating" - It's saying if they were denying it very strongly, they stopped asking about it.