Trump rattles off a dozen livid social-media posts in 2 hours as ex-aide gives explosive testimony to January 6 panel: 'A Total Phony!!!'

• Donald Trump raged on his social-media platform as Tuesday's January 6 hearing progressed.

• Trump's posts were a return to form for the former president.

• His response was in reaction to the former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday unleashed a dozen social-media posts in the wake of the testimony of a former top White House aide before the January 6 committee, calling the staffer a "total phony" and "third rate social climber," as well as suggesting that she was a "whacko" because of her handwriting.

"There is no cross examination of this so-called witness. This is a Kangaroo Court!" Trump wrote on his social-media platform.

In another post, he said that her "body language is that of a total bull…. artist. Fantasy Land!"

Trump's response mirrors how he used Twitter during his presidency, particularly after he was publicly criticized, or news came out of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe. Trump was kicked off Twitter and Facebook in the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot, which led him and his allies to create their own platform.

As Fox News' Bret Baier said, Hutchinson made her claims under oath while Trump simply ranted online. It's a crime to lie to Congress, as Michael Cohen, a former Trump attorney, found out.

Trump has a well-documented, decades-long proclivity for stretching the truth or outright lying. One of his most debunked claims as president was that he passed legislation to improve veterans' healthcare when it was easily verifiable that President Barack Obama signed the bill into law. Trump made this claim more than 156 times, as The Washington Post meticulously documented.

Cassidy Hutchinson, who was a top aide for Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, told lawmakers that Trump, in a fit of desperation, tried to commandeer the presidential limousine in an effort to travel to the Capitol on January 6 while Congress certified his election loss.

Trump denied that he tried to hijack his own limo, calling it a "Fake story." He added that it was "also false" that on a different occasion he threw his food against a wall after becoming enraged by statements made by Attorney General Bill Barr. The former president used all caps to emphasize that he "NEVER SAID" that Vice President Mike Pence deserved to be hanged for not trying to overturn the election.