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aftermath. Hey everyone. Welcome to another live recording of Trump's trials and

tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch Edition. Today is May 20th, 2024, the last day of Michael Cohen's testimony, and the first day for

defense witness Robert Costello.

I'm Roger Parlov, a senior editor at Law Fair, and I'm here with Court's correspondent and legal fellow Anna Bauer,

Managing Editor Tyler McBryan, Senior Editor Quinta Geresic, who is also a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution,

and Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittis.

Ben, you were in the courtroom this morning.

Who was groveling in Trump's entourage today?

It was a wild day in the entourage, so a whole lot of members of Congress were there.

I can't even try to name them.

The Trump campaign, I think, released a list.

Alan Dershruitz was there.

And then a guy who looked like, I mean, he looked like,

as Trump would say, a mobster out of central casting he had two giant I mean really giant like this big

Pinky rings you know he looked like he just walked off the set of mean streets or something or goodfellas.

Turns out he is was the president of the New York Hell's Angels

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