“Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, and Jay Sekulow, Trump’s personal attorney, plan to use their time in the trial to target the former vice president and his son, Hunter… Trump’s allies believe that if they can argue that the president had a plausible reason for requesting the Biden investigation in Ukraine, they can both defend him against the impeachment charges and gain the bonus of undercutting a political adversary.”

Then they’re going to have to explain what changed in those 55 days of holding the money and also why they stopped pushing the “request” for the investigation

- either they satisfied themselves there was nothing to the Biden allegations and so released the money..Hunter is clean

Or

- they released the money knowing (and able to prove) Hunter was “dirty’

If they simply believed more investigation was necessary they should have not released the money and stood their ground publicly saying why. Of course they never should have held it secretly on an unproven hunch …which is where they are now, no proof of anything

No they released the money and dropped the request because it got exposed

There is no other way to explain the wild swing and swing back in 55 days because they’re still arguing he’s horribly dirty