Star Trump Defense Witness Gets Into Confrontation With Judge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Security officers then removed all members of the press, but kept the entourage that Trump brought in -- including a Hells Angels leader, members of Congress, Alan Dershowitz and others.
42% : A longtime attorney to Rudy Giuliani, Costello sought to represent Michael Cohen during a critical period: when Cohen was debating whether he was to stay loyal to Trump or admit guilt and begin to cooperate with prosecutors.
27% : Before Costello took the stand, Merchan told attorneys that he would limit the testimony that Costello could provide on the "pressure campaign" that Trump supposedly waged on Cohen via Costello.
12% : Instead of a liar who had agreed to tell the truth after pleading guilty in 2018, Costello sought to portray Cohen as an untrustworthy client, someone who he tried to help as an attorney but who rebuffed him and instead sought to spread lies about Donald Trump.

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