President Trump declared “collusion is not a crime” on Tuesday, the day after his lawyer Rudy Giuliani went on a whirlwind tour of cable news shows to make the same point.

“Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!,” Trump said on Twitter.

After repeated claims that Trump did not collude with the Russians during the 2016 election, Giuliani on Monday shifted tactics to say even if there was, it didn’t matter because collusion is not a crime.

“I have been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime,” Giuliani said Monday on “Fox & Friends.” “Collusion is not a crime.”

In an interview on CNN, the former New York City mayor suggested that Trump would have had to pay Russian operatives to collude.

“I don’t even know if that’s a crime – colluding with Russians,” Giuliani said on CNN. “Hacking is the crime. The president didn’t hack. He didn’t pay for the hacking.”

The downplaying of collusion as a crime comes as Trump’s onetime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, said last week that he will tell special counsel Robert Mueller that then-candidate Trump knew in advance of a June 2016 meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Kremlin-connected lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The sitdown in Trump Tower was also attended by Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Manafort’s federal trial on charges that he funneled millions of dollars from Ukraine into the United States when he worked for a Russian-linked politician begins Tuesday in Virginia.