Biden subpoena.

Open mouth, insert foot.

I don’t understand why Biden decided to get involved here or make a public statement at all. What was the point?

The impeachment is about what Trump did in violation of his oath. It’s all about Trump’s actions. Did he or did he not offer an official act or something of value to Ukraine in exchange for campaign assistance? Did he obstruct Congress from determining the same? That’s it. End of story.

Ok, you want to talk about motive? Here it is: Trump wanted to win next year’s election by any means necessary.

There. Done.

This is not about Joe Biden. Joe Biden or Hunter Biden are Macguffins. To Trump getting Biden to testify before Congress would be like scoring the Maltese Falcon. Divinely to be wished but wholly irrelevant to the plot.

But sure, let’s Biden drag himself into the controversy. Let him admit that maybe Hunter being on the board of an energy company in Ukraine don’t look too good. We have seen that the media does not do a very good job of differentiating between degrees of badness. Where Hunter’s indiscretions might rate a 3 on the spectrum, Trump is already up to 11. That will make no difference. We will see the likes of John Dickerson and Anderson Cooper sadly admitting that Hunter’s impurity leaves a bad taste in their mouths.

Does Biden REALLY want to go thru that?? I mean, I don’t have a problem with it if he wants to tank his candidacy. I wasn’t planning to vote for anyone with a Y chromosome in the primaries anyway and if I absolutely had to, I’d go with Julian Castro. But Trump and his crazy Senate droogs will go all Doug Collins on him and the loud drawly yelling and screaming over nothing will make an impeachment trial into a circus.

The only way this would work is if Biden could bravely and calmly go to the Senate and make the point that HE isn’t on trial, TRUMP is. The distinction might be lost on the audience if he can’t stop hitting himself.

Jeez, don’t leave him near sharp objects.