As the impeachment inquiry heads into a phase of public testimony, House Republicans have provided a list of witnesses they’d like to call. The inclusion of Hunter Biden is a clear sign that they intend to muddy the waters of Trump’s impeachable acts by doubling down on the fictional corruption of the Bidens. In doing so, they’re making themselves complicit in the same corrupt plot that led to the impeachment process in the first place. And in a sign that the Democrats are starting to understand the power of pointing this out, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff indicated in his response that, “This inquiry is not, and will not serve, however, as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016 that the President pressed Ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit, or to facilitate the President’s effort to threaten, intimidate, and retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously raised the initial alarm.” This is exactly the sort of hardball and truthful rhetoric that’s needed right now, and I hope Schiff and other Democrats keep pressing the point that the House GOP is offering up more of what Trump is accused of doing, as a way of discrediting this defense and making Republican representatives pay a price for trying to move forward a fake narrative of Biden-related corruption instead of holding a rotten president accountable.