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This is Michael Pop Park, Legal A. F. Hot Hot Take time to drill down on Bob Costello and his role in the Trump trial.

He was called over objection by Donald Trump's own lawyers because Donald Trump wanted a friend a hack to take the stand and try to undercut Michael Cohen and things went awry right away with admonishments from Judge Mershaun. He even, the judge even told Costello at the very beginning of his testimony that he found his conduct on the stand to be contumacious or contemptuous in contempt of court if he continued

and the jury picked up on it and the whole thing from my view as a trial attorney backfired on Donald Trump.

Let's take a deeper dive into Bob Kistello and I'll read from the transcript of the

hearing so you understand exactly that the judge's patience is up and over with these kind of witnesses who were there as hacks and shills for Donald Trump.

Let's first look at Bob Costello, former federal prosecutor in his late 60s, works at a law firm in town that I've actually been up against, which is Davodov Hutchinson and Citrin,

had a relationship with Michael Cohen.

There's some debate as to whether that was an attorney-client relationship.

Certainly, Michael Cohen would suggest that there were times when it was an attorney-client

relationship, but really what Bob Costello was there to do was to communicate for Donald Trump to Michael Cohen after the FBI opened an investigation of Michael Cohen in 2018 about the Stormy Daniels payment to try to keep him in the fold, to try to keep him in the cult, to make

sure that Michael Cohen didn't flip on Donald Trump. That's Michael Cohen's own testimony from the stand and that because this is a sorted affair

Rudy Giuliani of course has to be involved. Rudy Giuliani used to work with Bob

Costello in the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, their friends.

At one point, until unpaid legal bills broke up their relationship, Costello represented Giuliani in the Fulton County, Georgia indictment,

represented Giuliani when the Jan 6th Committee wanted to get to the bottom of Rudy Giuliani's involvement

in the attempt to overthrow democracy.

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