News that Washington didn’t tell Ukraine it was delaying aid until a month after President Trump’s phone call to its leader punches a gaping hole in Democrats’ impeachment case.

On Wednesday, BuzzFeed reported that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky believed $391 million in military funding was already headed to Kiev when he chatted with Trump in August.

Dems charge the prez held up the money to pressure Zelensky to probe Joe Biden and his son. Hard to see how that works when Zelensky didn’t know about the aid holdup.

This follows the awkward fact that several of the whistleblower’s other claims about that call aren’t borne out by the transcript.

No matter. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff on Wednesday continued to claim Trump’s Ukraine chat “undermined national security” and was grounds for impeachment.

“Look at the sequencing,” urged Pelosi. “A few days before” the call, Trump “withdrew” the aid. Why? He “decided he was going to use [it] as leverage.”

Uh, so why didn’t he? There was no mention of the aid during (or before) the call, and Zelensky says he felt no pressure. Nor is there any evidence he acted on any fear.

And the funds got released last month without Zelensky giving Trump what he supposedly wanted.

The case grew fishier still Wednesday after The New York Times reported that the (eventual) whistleblower first consulted with a Schiff aide, who suggested he file a complaint — and also briefed Schiff on the broad allegations.

Fact is, this is starting to look as meatless as the “Russian collusion” tale. Which may be why Schiff is bringing back a familiar fallback, warning that any resistance to Congress’ demands for testimony or documents counts as “evidence” of obstruction of justice, and another impeachment charge.

Sorry, Mr. Chairman. Team Trump has every right to resist if it feels your requests are out of line. Feel free to sue, but pushback is not obstruction. And trying to use it for impeachment only suggests, as in Russia-gate, it’s the best you’ve got.