crime. but felony or fine is not our standard of conduct. but mr. giuliani is hoping you ll stay in the legal context. he purposefully conflates the two in order to confuse and excuse. now that you get that while giuliani may not always be on his game, the game is always afoot. the reason he needed to go hard and heavy last night that both he and this president really believe, really believe that biden is corrupt and, remember, that s why he gets hot. that s why he insists we won t cover it, because he s trying to convey to you how deeply convicted he is about this. if you believe that, then you will believe that the president had a legit purpose in pressuring ukraine to investigate biden, that it wasn t about political advantage and self-interest. so even holding back money from ukraine, if they don t investigate biden, is okay because why would you give money to a country that won t root out