Michael Cohen’s lawyer: Client said repeatedly, ‘I don’t have anything on Donald Trump,’ then changed tune after jail
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John Solomon
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
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Famed New York Attorney Bob Costello discusses his conversation with Michael Cohen back in 2018 that directly contradicts Cohen’s testimony he recently gave in the New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into Donald Trump. Costello testified yesterday as a witness in the Alvin Bragg case saying that, “after listening to Michael Cohen making statements on TV that were directly contrary to what he had told myself and my partner Jeff Citron, back in 2018, I decided that I couldn't sit on the sidelines and that I had to bring these statements to the attention of [The District Attorney’s office and Trump’s legal team].” Costello says that he testified to the court that Michael Cohen back in 2018, “at his most desperate moment,” as he was looking for an “escape hatch” to not spend anytime in jail, repeatedly told him and his parter Jeff Citron, that he didn’t have “anything on Donald Trump.” Costello said that during this conversation Cohen was “paranoid” and “manic,” and kept saying repeatedly, ‘I don't give an F what I have to do, I will never spend a day in jail’ and [Cohen] occasionally would pound the table.” Saying, “As if the message wasn't clear enough, right? Basically, Michael Cohen was saying, ‘I'm willing to lie, cheat, steal, even shoot my mother in order to stay out of jail.’” Costello comments, “do you think that a man with a mindset like that, who is contemplating suicide to escape his legal problems wouldn't give up Donald Trump if he actually had information on him at that point in time? Of course he would. Because he was desperate.”
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| 0:46.8 | a prosecutor will be inditing a former or sitting president that decision rests in the hands |
| 0:53.6 | of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a George Choros funded left-leaning prosecutor who has |
| 0:59.3 | in his first year reduced a lot of the serious violent felony crimes in his city to Mr. |
| 1:05.6 | Meeners, but in the case of Donald Trump, he may be looking again, he may not do this, but if he does it, |
| 1:11.1 | he's reportedly looking to upgrade a Mr. Meener who statute of limitations as already expired |
| 1:17.6 | into a felony to pursue Donald Trump. We're going to have a lot of discussion about that today |
| 1:22.4 | on The Show Why, I have a good reason, because Bob Costello, the mystery witness, who appeared yesterday |
| 1:29.4 | before the grand jury, and through a wrench in some of the prosecutors thinking with evidence and |
| 1:35.1 | emails and other documents, his testimony and documents he brought to the grand jury, |
| 1:40.4 | he's going to join us for the first part of the show. He has some blockbuster claims to make about |
| 1:44.8 | his interactions with former Trump organization Attorney Michael Cohen, the disgrace lawyer. |
| 1:50.5 | He's been convicted of giving false statements to Congress and other crimes. |
| 1:55.3 | Bob Costello, well respected New York lawyer, he's going to tell us what he told the grand jury |
| 1:59.4 | yesterday and what the documents show. This is a very important witness in his silence, the |
| 2:05.9 | breaking of a silence comes because Michael Cohen actually executed an agreement to free |
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