The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump PANICS and sends New Witness to Testify Before Grand Jury

Episode Date: March 20, 2023

Donald Trump is sending a new witness to testify on his behalf before the Manhattan criminal grand jury. The new witness is a lawyer named Robert Costello who once represented Michael Cohen in 2018 and is referenced in the Mueller Report for potentially obstructing justice on behalf of Donald Trump. MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports. New full-length episodes of the MeidasTouch Podcast featuring the brothers are released every Tuesday & Friday morning. The rest of the week, enjoy our short-form content we call ‘The Mighty.’ If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to rate, review and subscribe. Shop Meidas Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.com Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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for your charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. I'm Ben Micellis from the Midas Touch Network. Donald Trump is absolutely panicking right now as he is about to get criminally indicted by the Manhattan criminal grand jury that has been investigating his wrongdoing for some time now in connection with the Manhattan district attorney's ongoing criminal investigation. That is one of the things that Donald Trump has now done, which anybody who's a target of a Manhattan criminal grand jury investigation is entitled to do, although Donald Trump is now doing it at the 11th hour, even though we had the opportunity to do it sooner, is to call a witness

on your behalf. Obviously, we've reported before that Donald Trump himself has declined to waive immunity and testify before the grand jury. But now as it becomes clear that Donald Trump is going to get criminally indicted and he's absolutely panicking about it. He's sending in someone, this is what's being reported, Robert Costello. Robert Costello is a former legal advisor to Michael Cohen. The attorney-client relationship there was waived a long time ago, which would allow Robert Costello to testify there. But Costello was Cohen's legal advisor when the FBI started investigating Cohen back in 2018 when Cohen remained in Trump's camp at that time. Costello was introduced to Cohen through a mutual

friend and kind of represented that he would be a go-between between Donald Trump and Michael Cohen on behalf of Cohen. And eventually when Cohen said, no, I'm not going to be supporting Donald Trump at all anymore, Costello withdrew and basically said, I'm going to send you a bill right now because Trump's no longer going to take care of this at all. And I want no part of this. One thing to point out about Costello as well, as you may remember, his name was mentioned in the Mueller investigation and in particular, was mentioned in the Mueller investigation, and in particular, volume two of the Mueller investigation relating to obstruction of justice. Volume two of the Mueller investigation, I will just read to you what it's called right

now. The president sends messages of support to Cohen. This refers to an interaction between Costello and Cohen. In analyzing the president's intent in his actions towards Cohen as a potential witness, there is evidence that could support the inference that the president intended to discourage Cohen from cooperating with the government because Cohen's information would shed adverse light on the president's campaign period conduct and statements. And so it's kind of an odd witness that Donald

Trump would send as someone who he thinks would help his case, someone who Mueller previously accused of potentially engaging in obstruction of justice. And let me just explain to you the conduct that was engaged in by Costello back in 2018. This is from a report by Adam Claysfield. This is what he wrote from April 23rd of 2019. Shortly after the FBI raided his home office and hotel room, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen received an email quote, sleep well tonight. You have friends in high places. The message came from lawyer Robert Costello and is quoted by special counsel Robert Mueller in his recently published report that probes whether Trump obstructed justice in his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. the Daily Beast, Costello claimed that he was referring to Garth Brooks, the popular 1990s single by the country artist entitled Friends in Low Places. And then Costello changed his tune by 2019 and then said, quote, I have absolutely no concern about any of this because it was simply

a reference to the president of the United States being the friend in high places, nothing more. And so Costello himself, who is being called by Trump ostensibly to go before the criminal grand jury on Monday to basically impugn Michael Cohen's character, was involved in obstruction of justice, essentially, or was potentially accused of obstruction of justice relating to Michael Cohen. And so undoubtedly, the prosecutors are going to be asking Costello questions about that. And so why would you call Costello at this point? Well, as I mentioned earlier in the video, Donald Trump is absolutely panicking. So this is like a Hail Mary pass, if you will, that Donald Trump believes that this is somehow going to convince the grand jury not to criminally indict him. It's absolutely not going to do that. Trump, again, because Costello's mentioned in the Mueller investigation, although Costello was never charged with obstruction of justice, of being a part of or participating in conduct where an inference can be drawn of obstruction of justice to try to silence Michael Cohen. And so what is

Costello going to say, that Michael Cohen at one point in time was lying about the payments? Well, Michael Cohen, I believe, has previously stated that he was doing everything he was doing on Donald Trump's behalf. And so to impugn Michael Cohen would basically be to throw Donald Trump under the bus. And so it's also unclear what benefit Colin Costello is going to be. Costello was representing Cohen. Costello was the intermediary between Cohen and Donald Trump. And so, again, I just don't see this. I don't understand this strategy at all. What may have to happen is if Costello makes certain comments about Cohen in this testimony that's likely to take place on Monday.

You know, Donald Trump likes to delay, delay, delay. I mean, what? It may delay this thing for a few more hours or perhaps one more day. It may potentially cause the Manhattan district attorney to then call in Michael Cohen one more time so that Michael Cohen could just explain his relationship to Costello. And I think it will ultimately make Trump look even more guilty. So the whole overall strategy there is completely and utterly, um, uh, makes no sense at all, but really nothing coming out of Trump world does. I just think Trump wants to try to delay this one more day, potentially to foment more, uh, violence or try to foment more another insurrection, if you will, which is obviously what he's been trying to do over this weekend.

I guess some more information, though, just so you know more data about who this Costello is. Costello was Steve Bannon's lawyer in the contempt of Congress case. He claimed that he may be a witness and so that he sought to withdraw from that case. So he was significantly involved in all those communications with Bannon not to cooperate with the January 6th committee. And then I'll just read from you from this is a lawsuit that Mac Isaac, the repair shop owner who got into possession of Hunter

Biden's laptop. This is just what Mac Isaac said in his lawsuit that he sued Hunter Biden for defamation. It's like a completely bizarre, frivolous lawsuit that was filed by Mac Isaac. I recently did a hit on the Midas Touch Network that you should watch where Hunter Biden filed a cross complaint against Mac Isaac for invasion of privacy. I was glad that Hunter is finally fighting back. Let me just read from you for Mac Isaac's complaint that he filed back in October of 2022, which mentions Costello in it as well. Starting in late July 2019 and October 14th, 2020, Mac Isaac had multiple interactions with, list individuals

include, as well as Robert Costello, attorney for Rudolph Giuliani. It then goes on to say, in August 2020, Mac Isaac connected with Costello, to whom he provided a copy of the recovered data and repair authorization. Isaac specifically asked Costello to not identify him to Giuliani or anyone else when discussing the recovered data as plaintiff desired to remain anonymous after providing a copy of the recovered data to Costello. But prior to October 14, 2020, upon information and belief, Giuliani provided the information from the recovered data to the New York newspaper, the New York Post, and then the New York Post wrote an expose and in his lawsuit, Mac Isaac claims he never gave permission to Costello and Giuliani

to in any way identify Mac Isaac in that story. But nonetheless, he was identified by the fact that he was identified as a Delaware repair shop owner who holds onto laptops. And so just to give you a flavor of who Costello is, this is the individual who Donald Trump is now presenting to the Manhattan criminal grand jury in a last ditch effort as Donald Trump is panicking to try to convince the grand jury in a last-ditch effort as Donald Trump is panicking to try to convince the grand jury not to indict Donald Trump. This is going to completely backfire. I would not worry at all that this is in any way going to help Donald Trump. The one thing that it's likely to do is potentially cause another 24 or 48-hour delay in when the ultimate indictment is going to

be handed down, if that. But Donald Trump may try to use those hours to engage in other chicanery and unlawful acts. So we will be reporting and covering what he may be doing there. But this is the individual who Donald Trump is presenting to the grand jury. We'll keep you updated with more information here at the Midas Touch Network as we learn it. I'm Ben Mycelis. Make sure you hit subscribe. We're marching to 1 million subscribers in the month of March, so please hit subscribe. There is a lot of breaking news.

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