President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his blockade of congressional subpoenas for testimony from past and present White House officials a day after a federal judge ruled that his former counsel must comply with a subpoena to testify before Congress.

In a series of tweets, Trump argued that he's "fighting for future presidents" and claimed that people are overstating the impact of a Monday night court ruling that struck down his broad use of "absolute immunity." He dismissed that the decision could have wide-ranging implications for witnesses who have been called to testify in House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into the president's dealings with Ukraine.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that former White House counsel Don McGahn is required to appear before the House Judiciary Committee. McGahn was a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into potential obstruction of justice by Trump. Democrats' counsel argued that they needed an expedited decision because they would like to call him to testify in the inquiry.

Trump also tweeted that he would "love" for high-level officials like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton to testify before impeachment investigators. Yet, the Justice Department filed an appeal on Tuesday and asked for a stay of Jackson's ruling.

"The D.C. Wolves and Fake News Media are reading far too much into people being forced by Courts to testify before Congress. I am fighting for future presidents and the Office of the President. Other than that, I would actually like people to testify. Don McGahn's respected lawyer has already stated that I did nothing wrong," Trump tweeted.

"John Bolton is a patriot and may know that I held back the money from Ukraine because it is considered a corrupt country, & I wanted to know why nearby European countries weren't putting up money also. Likewise, I would love to have Mike Pompeo, Rick Perry, Mick Mulvaney and many others testify about the phony Impeachment Hoax."

During two weeks of public impeachment hearings, witnesses drew top officials like Pompeo, Bolton and Mulvaney into the controversy over the president's push that Ukraine open political investigations and whether he used a White House meeting and military aid as leverage.

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But Bolton won't testify based solely on the McGahn ruling. Charles Cooper, who is representing both Bolton and his former deputy Charles Kupperman in a separate lawsuit about testimony before Congress, noted that in the McGahn case, the Judiciary Committee "emphasized" that information it was seeking "did not involve the sensitive topics of national security or foreign affairs." Cooper said his clients will continue with the lawsuit and wait for a decision in that case.

"Therefore, any passing references in the McGahn decision to the presidential communications concerning national security matters are not authoritative on the validity of testimonial immunity for close White House advisors, like Dr. Kupperman, whose responsibilities are focused exclusively on providing information and advice to the president on national security," Cooper said in a statement provided to The New York Times .

Following Trump's tweets, Pompeo held a State Department briefing during which he was asked about whether he'd consider testifying before investigators.