--- title: Trump's Sons Shade Michael Cohen for Saying he Passed on Job description: Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. threw shade as their father's former personal attorney testified publicly. canonical: https://time.com/5540195/donald-trump-jr-eric-michael-cohen-twitter/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-27T17:07:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:10.009Z og:title: Trump's Sons Fling Barbs at Michael Cohen During Testimony og:description: They made their feelings known og:url: https://time.com/5540195/donald-trump-jr-eric-michael-cohen-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump's Sons Fling Barbs at Michael Cohen During Testimony twitter:description: They made their feelings known twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Are Lashing Out at Michael Cohen on Twitter ## Video: "Have Fun in Prison!" RNC Video [Watch (HLS stream): "Have Fun in Prison!" RNC Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iKarS97j.m3u8) (0:48)  _Published 2019-02-27. The video was released before Michael Cohen testified before Congress._ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 27, 2019 5:07 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 27, 2019 5:07 PM UTC As President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal attorney [Michael Cohen](http://time.com/5539766/michael-cohen-testimony-live/) testified on Wednesday, the President’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took to Twitter to make their feelings known. Amid the [public testimony](http://time.com/5539765/michael-cohen-testimony-transcript/) in front of the House Oversight Committee. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan alleged that Cohen was motivated to attack Trump because he didn’t get a job in the White House. During the exchange, Cohen said that he was offered a White House job in the counsel’s office, which he declined because he if he took a position, he would no longer have attorney client privilege. Trump’s sons saw the matter differently, taking to Twitter to sling barbs at Cohen. Donald Trump Jr. tweeted: > [](https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1100789988051111937) > [](https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1100791261219487744) And earlier, Donald Trump Jr. shared a video cut of clips showing Cohen praising Trump at a different time. Eric Trump joined his brother, tweeting: “Michael was lobbying EVERYONE to be “Chief of Staff.” It was the biggest joke in the campaign and around the office. Did he just perjure himself again?,” Trump alleged. > [](https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1100786677784760320) > [](https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1100790534019469315) Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison in December after he plead guilty to campaign finance violations, tax evasion and making false statements. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5540195/donald-trump-jr-eric-michael-cohen-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5540195/donald-trump-jr-eric-michael-cohen-twitter/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Are Lashing Out at Michael Cohen on Twitter","datePublished":"2019-02-27T17:07:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:10.009Z","description":"Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. threw shade as their father's former personal attorney testified publicly.","url":"https://time.com/5540195/donald-trump-jr-eric-michael-cohen-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Congress","politics","viral","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5540195/donald-trump-jr-eric-michael-cohen-twitter/","name":"Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Are Lashing Out at Michael Cohen on Twitter"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"\"Have Fun in Prison!\" RNC Video","description":"The video was released before Michael Cohen testified before Congress.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/iKarS97j/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2019-02-27T16:09:45.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iKarS97j.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5540195/donald-trump-jr-eric-michael-cohen-twitter/","duration":"PT48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5540195/donald-trump-jr-eric-michael-cohen-twitter/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```