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Victor Shi @Victorshi2020
BREAKING: Trump’s lawyers now want Robert Costello — who previously dangled a pardon to Michael Cohen — to undermine Michael Cohen’s testimony tomorrow. If true, this could open the door to a witness tampering charge *on top of the current charges*. This is huge.

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emptywheel @emptywheel
This seems to suggest that Costello is tomorrow's witness, and Cohen is the rebuttal. And it would support a witness tampering charge, which Costello would be part of.

This would explain both how this became a felony and the timing (the alleged tampering was in April 2018).

You wouldn't be likely have rebuttal because only the prosecutor is presenting to the Grand Jury. He's not likely to rebut his own witness.

But if there was witness tampering, they might have someone back to illuminate that ..
EDIT: Trump's lawyers may have asked for Costello - so that is where the rebuttal comes in.
The timing of April 2018 motivation is sketchy in terms of statute of limitations because, as I understand previous articles on it, some of it stopped tolling when Trump did not reside in the state and some was due to Covid.