Mr. Cohen testified that Mr. Trump had ordered him to buy the silence of the woman, Stormy Daniels. And he said that he suspected that Mr. Costello was trying to ensure that he would not cooperate with prosecutors after the hush-money deal came to light in 2018. Mr. Costello, Mr. Cohen noted, was close with Mr. Trump’s lawyer at the time, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
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She [Susan Hoffinger] produced a litany of emails underscoring her point, including one in which Mr. Costello wrote to his law partner, saying, “Our issue is to get Cohen on the right page without giving him the appearance that we are following instructions from Giuliani or the president.”
