The brief contains an excellent examination of why Trump’s asking Zelensky to “look into” the Biden corruption on the phone call was entirely justified and proper. It starts on page 99 and lays the foundation for why Hunter and Joe would be called as witnesses if the articles are not simply dismissed.
they would just lie.
Even if the articles of impeachment are dropped, Joe and Hunter Biden need to be held accountable and face justice.
I agree, and in my view, the most important sections are those at pages 102-107, and 98-102, in that order.
The parts I have read are excellent. I would have put more emphasis on footnote 751 on page 104, which shows that in December 2015 major publications had made it clear that any investigation of Burisma would involve an investigation of Hunter Biden, and that it was virtually impossible for Joe Biden to be unaware of this, and therefore, when Joe Biden forced the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor in February 2016, Joe must have known that he was protecting his son. Footnote 751 states:
"The Money Machine: How a High-Profile Corruption Investigation Fell Apart, supra note 740 (“The credibility of the United States was not helped by the news that . . . Hunter had been on the board of directors of Burisma”); The Editorial Board, Joe Biden Lectures Ukraine, N.Y. Times (Dec. 11, 2015), https://perma.cc/P9JH-YEBP (“Sadly, the credibility of Mr. Biden’s message may be undermined by the association of his son with a Ukrainian natural-gas company, Burisma Holdings, which is owned by a former government official suspected of corrupt practices.”); Paul Sonne and Laura Mills, Ukrainians See Conflict in Biden’s Anticorruption Message, Wall St. J. (Dec. 7, 2015), https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrainians-see-conflict-in-bidens-anticorruption-message-1449523458 (“[A]ctivists here say that [Joe Biden’s anti-corruption] message is being undermined as his son receives money from a former Ukrainian official who is being investigated for graft.”)."
The President's Brief also makes the important point that Joe Biden does not get any immunity from examination simply because Trump might benefit politically from an investigation of Biden. The Democrats have never offered any legal basis for their position that Biden could not be investigated because of his status as a political opponent of Trump.
I also would have more fully developed the point that Trump's legitimate interest in possible Ukrainian corruption would cover any corrupt acquiescence by the Ukrainians in a corrupt effort by Joe Biden to protect Hunter and the huge income stream that Hunter was receiving from Burisma.