One of the best parts of the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry and l’affaire du Ukraine is how blatantly obvious the president and his associates were when they went about committing their crimes. Moments after Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky brought up military aid during the infamous July 25 phone call with Trump, the president told him, “I would like you to do us a favor, though,” and proceeded to ask him to “find out what happened” with Crowdstrike and “Biden’s son.” The aid that diplomats have testified was being held up until the investigations were announced was conveniently released just one day after Representative Adam Schiff sent a letter regarding the existence of the whistle-blower complaint. And now, in a plot twist that only a guy doing his best impression of a bumbling crook could come up with, we’ve learned that Rudy Giuliani was reportedly in talks earlier this year for his firm to receive hundreds of thousands from both the Ukraine Ministry of Justice and the country’s top prosecutor, with whom he was working to take down Trump’s political opponents.

The Washington Post reports that Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney and top dog on the Ukraine campaign, “negotiated this year to represent Ukraine’s top prosecutor for at least $200,000 during the same months that [he] was working with the prosecutor to dig up dirt on former vice president Joe Biden, according to people familiar with the discussions.” Really, the comedy just writes itself: