No president wants to be impeached, but no other president has used impeachment to his electoral advantage either. Trump has made the most of it by using his constitutional woes to further animate his speeches, fundraise millions of dollars and drive his always faithful base into an unprecedented frenzy.

And while he never got his requested Ukrainian investigation (and China didn’t deliver either, even though the president asked its leaders nicely — and on the White House lawn, no less), attention, little of it good, has been paid to the business practices of the Biden family.

“This will go down as the worst political miscalculation in American politics,” Tim Murtaugh told RealClearPolitics in January as more than 7,000 Trump supporters filled the Drake University arena for a speech by the president. Does it help Trump? Does it hurt Biden? Ahead of the Iowa caucuses, the president’s campaign communications director answered yes to both questions.

“To the extent that it is forcing the media to talk about it, sure, it has been beneficial,” Murtaugh said.