Former Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee for an impeachment inquiry on Tuesday and got into a heated exchange with Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.

Swalwell, who represents parts of Alameda County and Contra Costa County, tried to make Lewandowski read his own notes he submitted to special counsel Robert Mueller regarding a meeting with President Donald Trump on July 19, 2017.

Lewandowski refused to read it, and then appeared to troll Swalwell for dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries in July.

"President Swalwell, I'm very happy with what I've written but you're welcome to read it if you like," Lewandowski quipped.

"Are you ashamed to read it out loud?" Swalwell pressed.

"I'm not ashamed of anything in my life, congressman, are you?" Lewandowski replied.

Needless to say, the conversation did not go anywhere and Lewandowski did not read the notes in question.

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The former campaign manager was later asked by Swalwell if he placed the notes in question in a safe, leading Lewandowski to state he had "a lot of guns" in his safe. The congressman ran on an aggressive gun control platform during his presidential campaign.

In his report, Mueller stated that Trump tasked Lewandowski with delivering a message to then-attorney general Jeff Sessions during that July 19, 2017 meeting. According to Mueller, Lewandowski was to tell Sessions to publicly push back against investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

According to Lewandowski's notes, Sessions was supposed to say something along the lines of:

"I know that I recused myself from certain things having to do with specific areas. But our POTUS ... is being treated very unfairly. He shouldn't have a Special Prosecutor/Counsel b/c he hasn't done anything wrong. I was on the campaign w/ him for nine months, there were no Russians involved with him. I know it for a fact b/c I was there. He didn't do anything wrong except he ran the greatest campaign in American history."

This was the note Swalwell (unsuccessfully) tried to get Lewandowski to read.

Lewandowski ended up not delivering the message to Sessions.

Eric Ting is an SFGATE staff writer. Email: eric.ting@sfgate.com | Twitter:@_ericting