President Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was the first witness called by the House Judiciary Committee in their impeachment hearings. He offered a rousing defense of his former boss and close confidant.

Lewandowski opened his statements by talking about how he hoped his testimony would help both congress and the American public find the truth about the 2016 election. He then went on to offer a number of strong rebukes of the committee and the Democratic witch hunt that it is overseeing.

Lewandowski described the process by saying, “Since election day, whether it was bad actors at the FBI and the intelligence community, or lies coming from the current House Majority that there was evidence of collusion, the American people continue to be sold a false narrative with the purpose of undermining the legitimacy of the 2016 election results.”

He continued in his evaluation of these hearings by noting, “It’s sad to say, this country has spent 3 years and 40 million tax payer dollars on these investigations and it’s now clear that these investigations were populated by many Trump haters who had their own agenda. To take down a duly elected President of the United States.”

“Instead of focusing on petty and personal politics, the committee focused on solving the challenges of this generation imagine how many people we could help, or how many lives we could save”, Lewandowski continued.

Lewandowski also slipped in a nice rebuke of Trump’s 2016 opponent stating that he “received hundreds of thousands of emails, some days with as many as a thousand emails and unlike Hillary Clinton, I don’t think I ever deleted any of those.”

For his part, President Trump enjoyed Lewandowski’s opening statement. The President tweeted out a video opening statement and thanked Lewandowski for his comments, calling it a “beautiful Opening Statement”.

House Democrat and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) opened these impeachment hearings. The purpose of the hearings is to investigate the charges of obstruction of justice that Democrats believe are in the Mueller Report and to determine whether they should recommend moving forward with articles of impeachment.