Robert Costello says he ‘stirred up’ Trump hush-money grand jury

Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen, blasted his onetime client’s credibility on Thursday and said that he “stirred up” the Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence against the former president with his testimony earlier this week. 

Costello, a Trump loyalist, told New York radio host John Catsimatidis that he believes Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is now “reconsidering” charging the 76-year-old former president in light of his Monday testimony that called Cohen’s integrity into question. 

“I think the Manhattan DA is pausing and reconsidering what their actions are going to be because of the presentation that I gave to the grand jury on Monday,” Costello told Catsimatidis, host of “Cats & Cosby” on 770 WABC. 

“I think I really stirred up those grand jurors,” Costello added. 

Costello split from Cohen after the FBI’s 2018 raid of the former Trump fixer’s apartment and office, when he realized Cohen had turned against Trump. 

In his more than two hours of testimony Monday, Costello told members of the grand jury that Cohen himself took credit for being the mastermind behind an alleged hush-money agreement with porn star Stormy Daniels. 

In 2016, Daniels was paid $130,000 by Cohen to keep quiet about an alleged 2006 affair with Trump.

Cohen claims Trump ordered the payment and covertly reimbursed him through the Trump Organization. 

On Thursday, Costello argued that Cohen, an ex-con, simply can’t be believed. 

“Michael Cohen is quite simply a witness that you cannot believe. He is a convicted perjurer,” Costello said. 

The Trump-supporting lawyer said he has hundreds of emails that potentially show Cohen lying, but Bragg has only allowed jurors to see six of them, declaring the rest to be hearsay.

“If the grand jury gets to see the other 315 emails, he probably lied to us another 50 to 100 times … He’d say one thing in one email, and the opposite thing in another email … You have to see all the evidence. And I was pushing very hard for that. I told the grand jury, ‘You can’t believe Michael Cohen,’” Costello told Catsimatidis. 

He added, “Michael Cohen is not the horse you want to try to ride to the finish line. He just doesn’t have any credibility at all.

“The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District, after I presented the exact same material that I presented to the Manhattan DAs office … passed [on indicting Trump]. They never did anything else with Michael Cohen again … I hope that the Manhattan DAs office would look at that experience and say, ‘We should follow in their shoes and not go forward with a frivolous case like this.’ In addition, the Federal Election Commission also passed on” the hush-money payment case. 

Costello further added that he “absolutely” believes “there’s a chance” Bragg drops the investigation into Trump.

The Manhattan panel weighing whether to indict the 45th president didn’t hear from witnesses on Wednesday or Thursday. 

The grand jury is expected to reconvene on Monday.