Midway through the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, railed against the supposed corruption of the Biden family: A corrupt Ukrainian oligarch put Hunter [Biden] on the board of his gas company, even though he had no experience in the country or in the energy sector. That may sound familiar, because that supposed malfeasance was at the heart of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump s impeachment late last year .

Impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives showed that Trump threatened to withhold crucial military aid unless Volodymyr Zelensky, then Ukraines president-elect, opened an investigation into the Biden family and the discredited theory that Joe Biden intervened to end a criminal probe into the gas company where Hunter was on the board. The House voted to impeach Trump after several key actors in this scheme testified against him.