Biggest joke...

Twitter mocks Donald Trump Jr. for retweet saying Cohen is telling the truth

By Filipa Ioannou

Among the hours-long questioning of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, there was some colorful roasting of the president's son.

"Mr Trump had frequently told me and others that his son Don Jr. had the worst judgement of anyone in the world," said Cohen.

This assessment of questionable judgement appeared to be borne out a little later in the morning, when Donald Trump Jr., in the midst of a stream of retweets calling Michael Cohen a liar, also retweeted a longer tweet that said Cohen had nothing to lose and was telling the truth.

"Incredible to see all the hubris drained from Cohen," said the tweet from journalist Garrett M. Graff, which Trump Jr. appeared to retweet around 9 a.m. "I've been personally screamed at by Cohen on the phone before and know how much bravado he once had. This is a man with nothing left, with no reason to lie or obfuscate at all. Humbling, in its way."

Hours passed and replies mocking Trump Jr. for the retweet mounted, but as of 12:40 p.m., he still had not undone the retweet.

Some called it a cautionary tale about the importance of reading things through the end.

"He didn't have the attention span to read to the end of the tweet," wrote Twitter user Autotune Scalia.

Others suggested that Trump Jr. should consult with his girlfriend, former San Francisco first lady Kimberly Guilfoyle, for help understanding the tweet. Several people made comparisons between Trump Jr. and Fredo, the somewhat dimwitted and marginalized son in the Corleone crime family in "The Godfather."

Throughout the hearings, Trump's eldest sons disparaged Cohen on Twitter and said he was lashing out after being denied a job at the White House. Eric Trump tweeted that Cohen's desire for a White House job "was the biggest joke in the campaign," and Donald Trump Jr. described the testimony as "like a breakup letter."

Cohen has cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and is set to begin a three-year prison sentence in May.