My takeaway from this, including what we know about the Bidens, is that, in a nutshell, the Russia hysteria was to keep pressure on Trump so that he wouldn't get too close to Putin and find out about Ukraine being a huge money laundering scheme, etc. It's a big game of CYA for all of the money they had been sifting through the Ukraine and back into their foundations and bank accounts. But the dems are so sloppy and uncreative, that they basically led the Trump administration right to the crime.