The Republican search for TrumPutin's innocence has become the real witch hunt, and their explanations of his bribery is the real hoax. 

They are unable to see a quid pro quo, but are facile enough that they can fashion pseudo-innocence out of guilt without the slightest hint of shame.
 
The greatest witch hunt in history is actually a hunt for TrumPutin's integrity. It is a fool's errand, which is why it is a task particularly well-suited for Graham, Moscow Mitch, Jordan, McCarthy, Nunes, et al.

Those cheerleaders lead the call for the GOP and the base to shut their eyes and scream that they see no evidence. They offer no exculpatory evidence, and mock those who testify. 

If the cheerleaders and sycophants could offer testimony that proves TrumPutin's innocence, they would. Instead, having no evidence, they whimper and whine that Democrats are unfair and are endangering future corrupt presidents who want to subvert the Constitution and lie about it. 
TrumPutin bellows witch hunt, and leads the charge to cling like a barnacle to conspiracy theories. 

As TrumPutin presses the witch hunt canard, he instills fear in any Republican who refuses to echo his nonsense.

The GOP dutifully abets their boss, claiming with a straight face that there is no collusion, the proof being that TrumPutin and his team are too stupid to collude.  Their innocence is based on the legal grounds that his plan to obstruct was incompetently executed, therefore invisible. 

The GOP are not able any longer to say out loud that there was no quid pro quo, and rather than plead the Fifth, they plead ignorance. 

How comforting for the nation.