FILE PHOTO: White House counsel Don Mcgahn listens to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 27, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/ Reuters

President Donald Trump claimed he is „fighting for future presidents“ after a federal judge ruled the White House cannot block former White House counsel Don McGahn from testifying.

On Monday, US District Court Judge Kentaji Brown ruled McGahn must comply with a congressional subpoena to testify before the House of Representatives‘ Judiciary Committee issued back in May.

McGahn was one of the most important witnesses in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice as president, sitting for over 30 hours of interviews.

In Trump’s tweets, he defended himself against the „DC wolves,“ maintained his innocence, and said he would „love“ to have other officials testify in the impeachment inquiry into his presidency.

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In a series of Tuesday tweets, President Donald Trump unloaded on the „DC wolves“ and „fake news media“ and claimed he is „fighting for future presidents“ after a federal judge ruled the White House cannot block former White House counsel Don McGahn from testifying.

On Monday evening, US District Court Judge Kentaji Brown ruled that McGahn must comply with a congressional subpoena to testify before the House of Representatives‘ Judiciary Committee initially issued back in May.

McGahn was one of the most important witnesses in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice as president, and sat for over 30 hours of closed-door interviews with Mueller’s team.

The Mueller report revealed that Trump asked McGahn on multiple occasions to tell former Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller.

The report said that McGahn flatly refused to carry out Trump’s orders. „deciding that he would resign rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre.“

The Department of Justice has announced they are appealing Judge Kentaji’s ruling that the White House cannot block McGahn from testifying.

„Don McGahn will comply with Judge Jackson’s decision unless it is stayed pending appeal. The [Department of Justice] is handling this case, so you will need to ask them whether they intend to seek a stay,“ McGahn’s attorney William Burck said on Monday.

In Trump’s tweets, he both defended himself against the „DC wolves,“ maintained his innocence, and said he would „love to have John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Rick Perry, Mick Mulvaney and many others testify about the phony Impeachment Hoax,“ referring to other officials who got caught up in the current impeachment inquiry into Trump.

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…lawyer has already stated that I did nothing wrong. 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….

Bolton, Trump’s former National Security Adviser, left the White House in September amid long-simmering tensions with Trump over national security issues.

Now, Bolton could be one of the most damaging witnesses against Trump.

The witnesses who have testified so far, including former NSC director Fiona Hill and foreign area officer Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, described Bolton as being horrified by other members of the administration making overtures toward Ukraine and leveraging lifting military aid in exchange for a White House meeting.

In her closed-door deposition and public impeachment hearing, Hill described a dramatic July meeting that ended in Bolton storming out the room after US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland brought up the possibility of conditioning a White House meeting on Ukraine announcing investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter and the 2016 election, claiming the idea was approved by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.

After Hill tried intercepting Sondland and conveying to him he could not promise a White House meeting without going through the proper diplomatic process, Bolton told her to report it to NSC counsel John Eisenberg immediately, saying, „you go and tell Eisenberg that I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up on this, and you go and tell him what you’ve heard and what I’ve said.“

Bolton has recently resurfaced on social media, but his lawyer Charles Cooper told The New York Times on Tuesday that the new ruling in McGahn’s case would not make it more likely for Bolton to testify.

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