But the GOP is deploying the same strategy: Longtime GOP counsel and staffer Steve Castor has a starring role during Republicans’ questioning of the witnesses, along with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).

Trump and fellow Republicans have alternated all day between calling the impeachment hearing a boring affair not worth their time and painting it as a kangaroo court run amok with partisanship.

Earlier Wednesday morning, Trump railed against the impeachment inquiry, tweeting out lines of attack from his favorite morning cable news show hours before the probe’s first public hearings were set to commence.

In his first post on a morning critical to the fate of his presidency, Trump paraphrased remarks that conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh made Tuesday and that were rebroadcast during a segment on “Fox & Friends” early Wednesday.

“‘Millions of Americans will see what a partisan sham this whole thing is.’ Rush Limbaugh @foxandfriends,” Trump wrote online.

“Also, why is corrupt politician Schiff allowed to hand over cross examination to a high priced outside lawyer. Did that lawyer ever work for me, which would be a conflict?” he added.

The second line of Trump’s tweet, which invoked Schiff, appeared to refer to the congressman’s plans to yield significant questioning time to Goldman.

It was not immediately clear whether two of the more well-known lawyers for the Intelligence Committee’s Democratic lawmakers, Goldman and Daniel Noble, ever took on Trump as a client in his capacity as a private businessman — though such a possibility seems unlikely.