"What it is ain't exactly clear...."

Toomey proposes a "one-for-one" witness deal in Trump impeachment trial amid Bolton revelations — a @costareports scoophttps://t.co/rjgWJSsc8a

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) January 27, 2020

It is, though. Two of Trump's lawyers are arguing before the Senate now that Biden was corrupt because Hunter was on the board of Burma through corruption. Oh, and Biden fired the Ukraine prosecutor (the known source of this conspiracy theory) because that prosecutor was investigating Burisma. (Up is down in Trumpworld: the Ukraine prosecutor was forced out by a coalition of world forces, publicly, because he refused to investigate and prosecute Burisma. He was, in fact, taking bribes to look the other way.

The conspiracy theory Pam Bondi is laying out on the floor of the Senate is the one Tom Bossert called “completely debunked” and one that was invented, according to Fiona Hill, by the Russian spy agencies.

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 27, 2020

This was acknowledged in the trial testimony Bondi accused the House managers of cherry-picking.) Are they making this argument only to claim Trump was acting within the law? Nah. They want Hunter Biden and Joe Biden to testify (as Trump has publicly demanded again and again).

The Democrats don’t want a Witness Trade because Shifty Schiff, the Biden’s, the fake Whistleblower(& his lawyer), the second Whistleblower (who vanished after I released the Transcripts), the so-called “informer”, & many other Democrat disasters, would be a BIG problem for them!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2020

Yeah, like that.

So Trump's lawyers are laying the groundwork for a trade:  you get Bolton, we get Biden.  Maybe it won't happen.  But they've put their conspiracy theory on trial.  It might be they now have to subject it to cross-examination.

I dunno; it's not a trial.  But if the House can't answer this with testimony, it won't seem "fundamentally fair" to the American public.

The entire Trump defense team is pitching a story made up by Russian intelligence services. This is truly remarkable.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 27, 2020

It should be. I really don't know if it is, anymore.