Jonathan Turley was just on Brian Kilmeade’s program and he said that Costello has spoken publicly about this before, so it was known (not to yours truly and most others by any means). He may not have been brought to testify because he has an association with Rudy Giuliani on the case of Trump, so his testimony may open a nasty can of worms for the prosecution to wade into. Plus, somehow, the Defense has introduced Costello’s accounting of events, by way of asking Cohen if he remembered telling Costello that Trump was utterly clean, etc., and Cohen ..... ta, da, didn’t recall. Turley thinks the defense has made enough of a case to not need Costello, but may call him if an appeal is necessary.
Ok, thanks. At least it’s been addressed in trial but it seems too big to let this go on and not bring in Costello himself as a defense witness. This farce needs to end ASAP.