- An attorney who advised disgraced Trump organization lawyer Michael Cohen provided Manhattan prosecutors with voluminous documentation, including contemporaneous emails and memos, purporting to show that in 2018 Cohen wanted Donald Trump to help cover his legal bills and repeatedly claimed he had no evidence incriminating the former president in a hush money deal with porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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Costello’s account in the interview Tuesday matches what he told Congress during the Russia collusion investigation against Trump, according to a summary of that interview he turned over to prosecutors.
In that 2019 testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Costello said he had asked Cohen if he had any useful information to offer up to prosecutors regarding Trump, but Cohen replied that he had none.
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Key Lawyer Reinforces Story Trump Didn’t Do It, Or Know Of Porn Payment
Robert Costello said Michael Cohen never mentioned any conversations about Trump directing a payment to Stormy Daniels. "First I don't think Cohen believed it (the unprotected sex with a porn actress), or that Trump did it."
