WASHINGTON—Jay Sekulow, one of the president*’s lawyers and a man who doesn’t understand words, was fairly glowing when he came out to meet the press briefly during the first break in the impeachment action on Thursday. “The defense opened the door. That’s what we say,” Sekulow said. “They opened the door and now it’s relevant.”

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Sekulow was referring to the gambit run by the House managers on Thursday afternoon wherein they sent Rep. Sylvia Garcia up to the plate to send the whole Bidens-Burisma fable deep into the cheap seats. At first, I thought this was a high-risk move, since I thought the Democrats would stay as far away as they could from that poisonous product of the fantasy factory run by the Volga Bagmen, a crock of beans central to the president*’s threadbare alibi for his Ukraine shakedown. It turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Steadily, Garcia dismantled the whole sorry business brick by brick. In doing so, she pointed the Senate toward Moscow, and asked them to draw the same conclusions everyone with a functioning cortex has drawn ever since this president* came down the escalator.

Their goal is to weaken our country and to diminish America's global role and to neutralize a perceived U.S. threat to Russian interests. That is why it is so dangerous because despite the lack of any evidence to support this debunked conspiracy theory the unanimous conclusion of the Intelligence Committee, Congress, Special Counsel Mueller and the FBI to the likes of the contrary, President Trump continued to promote this conspiracy theory just because it would be beneficial and helpful to his own reelection campaign. Even President Trump's own senior advisors told him that this allegation was false. Tom Bossert, President Trump's former Homeland Security advisor, stated publicly that the Crowd Strike theory had been debunked. Here is that interview and let's watch.

And that was the greatest thing about the afternoon’s presentation. Garcia and the managers kept running videos that made every Republican who ran with the Biden-Burisma theory look like a dupe or a fool. They ran the Bossert clip in front of a whole passel of senators who’ve been pushing the snake oil in front of every microphone in the western world for six months.

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The theory has no validity and that is what he said, and Doctor Hill testified that White House officials including Mr. Bossert and former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster spends a lot of time refuting the Crowd Strike conspiracy theory to President Trump and let's hear it.

Again with the video. Again with the squirming in the chairs. When a Republican senator tells you how boring this all is, that senator is telling you how embarrassed he is for being a White House lackey.

Garcia dismantled the Crowd Strike conspiracy theory. Handout Getty Images

There also was a great moment in which the House managers introduced Lindsey Graham 2020 to Lindsey Graham 1999, right there as Lindsey Graham 2020 tried to sink entirely through the carpet.

Jerrold Nadler: And I might say the same thing of then-House manager Lindsey Graham who in President Clinton's trial flatly rejected the notion that impeachable offenses are limited to violations of established law. Here is what he said.

Lindsey Graham 1999: What's a high crime? How about an important person hurt somebody of low means ? It's not very scholarly. But I think it's the truth. I think that's what they meant by high crimes. Doesn't have to be a crime. It's just when you start using your office and your acting in a way that hurts people. You've committed a high crime.

In addition to stomping the bejesus out of the Biden-Burisma fable, the presentation was the closest this trial has come to entertainment in three days. Hell, if the Republicans insist on marching off the cliff in lockstep, there’s no reason we can’t all have a few laughs watching them go down.

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