1. NEVER plead guilty to a crime you don't fully understand!
2. His 'crime' is not using the American banking system.
3. His case is about the (absence of) limits to Federal power.
No one gave the government this much power. They took it while the American People weren't paying attention.
We live in a de facto fascist system. Actions like this are proof.
Average people like the defendant in the clip get persecuted- yes I'm using the term specifically, it's not a typo- and the elite walk away from much worse without ever being prosecuted in the first place.