Stay classy, Senator.

There was no shortage of attempts to gin up outrage. The House managers raised questions about who had been paying Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney and point man on the Ukraine scheme. More than one member of the defense team went after the Biden family. Pam Bondi, the former Republican attorney general of Florida, reprised her breathless account of Hunter Biden’s gig with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company. He was paid $83,000 a month, she reminded everyone. “He had a very fancy job description.”

One of the more fascinating moments came when defender Eric Herschmann launched into what could have been a campaign ad for Mr. Trump. He ran through a list of the president’s accomplishments, from cutting taxes to replacing NAFTA to building the wall — or at least getting it started — before gushing, that, if all that had been done “solely, solely in their words, for his ‘personal and political gain,’ then I say, God bless him! Keep doing it! Keep doing it!” MAGA comes to the floor of the United States Senate.

And after all that back and forth? The battle lines remained exactly where they were the day the process began.

The key takeaway from the president’s legal team: Nothing to see here, folks! Plus, the House managers have done such a shoddy job of uncovering and presenting that nothing that this entire exercise is a travesty. Validate it at your peril.