Lawyer Bob Costello tore into Michael Cohen during a House hearing Wednesday – hours after the former Trump fixer called him ‘shifty’ and accused him of trying to set up a ‘back channel’ to then-President Donald Trump.
‘I read Michael Cohen’s testimony from yesterday’s trial in New York on the way down on the train, and virtually every statement he made about me is another lie,’ Costello told a House committee on ‘weaponization’ of government.
The comments came along with a blistering statement Costello released, where he blasted ‘lawfare’ he said was being deployed against Trump, and wrote about meetings with prosecutors along with Cohen.
Cohen ‘took a foolish step by lying that he had evidence that Rudy Giuliani and I had conspired to obstruct justice by dangling a pardon for him to keep his mouth shut about Donald Trump. That was totally false and utter nonsense,’ Costello said.
And he went after Cohen’s motive – in a possible teaser to what Trump’s legal team has in store for him in a second day of cross-examination set for Thursday in Manhattan criminal court.
