Donald Trump Jr. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters)

As fired FBI Director James Comey delivered dramatic testimony to the Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, President Trump was silent on Twitter. He was reportedly watching at the White House with his legal team and close advisers.

But his son, Donald Trump Jr., took up the mantle in his stead, furiously live-tweeting in defense of his father and hitting back at Comey’s testimony recounting several interactions with the president he considered inappropriate. By noon, Trump Jr. had tweeted 30 times, including retweets from other accounts.

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Trump Jr. took particular issue with Comey’s testimony that the president asked him to end the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey testified that the president told him of an investigation into Flynn, “I hope you can let this thing go.”

Trump Jr. seized on the word “hope” as evidence it was not as forceful a statement as Comey took it to be.

1/3 Flynn stuff is BS in context 2 guys talking about a guy they both know well. I hear "I hope nothing happens but you have to do your job" — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





2/3 very far from any kind of coercion or influence and certainly not obstruction! — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





3/3 Knowing my father for 39 years when he "orders or tells" you to do something there is no ambiguity, you will know exactly what he means — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





Hoping and telling are two very different things, you would think that a guy like Comey would know that. #givemeabreak — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





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Although the younger Trump maintained there was nothing improper about his father asking Comey to tamp down the Flynn inquiry, he nonetheless appeared to take issue with Comey for not more forcefully rejecting the request at the time.

So if he was a "Stronger guy" he might have actually followed procedure & the law? You were the director of the FBI, who are you kidding????? — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





He also pointed to the part of Comey’s testimony in which the ousted FBI director said he told Trump that he personally was not under investigation.

Solid point and seems rather convenient for the partisan nonsense we have seen play out for months. https://t.co/PpYkSVRzmA — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





We all know that there is no way anyone in the swamp would leak something favorable to #potus. Otherwise this whopper would be everywhere! https://t.co/hO5SCD3Nd2 — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





The son of the leak-obsessed commander-in-chief unsurprisingly also did not take kindly to the revelation that after his firing, Comey gave memos documenting his interactions with Trump to a friend to leak to the media.

Did I miss something or did Comey just say he asked a friend to leak information to the press? Is this a joke? — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





Washington DC at its finest. This is what America rallied against, but the DC elite don't get it or know any other way. https://t.co/H5SszE4uL4 — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017





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