Donald Trump Jr. has been live-tweeting throughout Michael Cohen’s testimony, going on the counterattack to defend his dad against his turncoat ex-lawyer.
The first son described Cohen’s opening statement to a House panel Wednesday as a “breakup letter” from the president’s former fixer because he didn’t land a plum role in the White House.
In a series of tweets, and retweets, Trump Jr. lambasted Cohen, who described the president as a “racist,” a “cheat” and a conman in explosive testimony to the House Oversight Committee.
He may have been a bit testy over Cohen’s assertion that the president had told him Trump Jr. “had the worst judgment of anyone in the world.”
“Only Democrats could hate someone so much that they would try to disrupt nuclear peace talks with testimony from a convicted felon,” Trump Jr. tweeted about an hour before the televised proceeding began.
He later retweeted GOP operative Arthur Schwartz, who quoted Cohen’s testimony.
“Cohen: ‘I didn’t want to go to the White House.’ LIAR. He complained to me on numerous occasions about the fact that POTUS didn’t offer him a job at the WH,” Schwartz wrote.
Trump Jr. wrote: “… that’s what all this is about. Cohen just wants to be famous. He always wanted his own TV show and the limelight and when he couldn’t get it one way he had to try another.”
His brother Eric also weighed in on Cohen’s claims that he never wanted to work in the White House.
“Michael was lobbying EVERYONE to be ‘Chief of Staff.’ It was the biggest joke in the campaign and around the office. Did he just perjure himself again?” he tweeted.
“Nailed it,” Trump Jr. wrote in response.
“It really was the biggest joke of the entire transition. The beginning of his bitterness was when he realized that was never going to happen,” he added.
“Funny how things change when you’re trying to save you’re a–,” he said in a separate tweet. “This sounds like a breakup letter … and I’m keeping your sweatshirt.”
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