Lawyer's Task Was to Get Cohen on the 'Right Page' for Trump

[Uncle Joe]

The testimony of Robert J. Costello, the main witness for the defense, focused on his relationship with Michael D. Cohen, the former president’s onetime fixer.

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“I told you my relationship with Rudy which could be very very useful for you,” Mr. Costello wrote Mr. Cohen two days after their meeting.

She also displayed one that Mr. Costello sent to a law partner, saying that Mr. Cohen had good reason to hire him “because of my connection to Rudy Giuliani, which I mentioned to him in our meeting.”

And when Mr. Costello equivocated about when he offered to serve as a back channel to Mr. Trump’s legal team, Ms. Hoffinger showed him an email he sent to Mr. Cohen using that exact phrase. The email recounted a conversation Mr. Costello said he had with Mr. Giuliani, who was “thrilled and said this could not be a better situation for the President or you.”

Mr. Giuliani, he added, “said thank you for opening this back channel of communication and asked me to keep in touch.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/nyregion/robert-costello-cohen-trump.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. I swear Costello looks like a prosecution witness.

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. Andrew Weisman cannot contain himself on

Nicole’s Show! Big smile and stifling laughter. He basically said the defense was a disaster.

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3. The most chilling email from Costello to Cohen

Sleep well tonight, people in high places are looking out for you.