Had Kent’s email been released during Trump’s impeachment hearings, it would have been publicly known that the initial investigations into Hunter Biden’s employer, Burisma, were terminated when the original prosecutor was bribed. Furthermore, we would have known that the bribe took place while Biden was in charge of the company’s legal affairs. That would have significantly strengthened Trump’s argument that Biden was implicated in corruption and that Joe Biden had pressured Ukraine into firing Shokin because the new prosecutor had reopened those same investigations into Burisma.

But evidence regarding the alleged bribing of Ukrainian prosecutor Yarema was withheld from Trump’s impeachment team in early 2020 and the evidence went wasn’t presented during the hearings.