The judge told Costello that his behaviour was contemptuous
and basically warned him that if you don't
shape up,
I'm going to hold you in contempt of court.
So yeah, that was a really dramatic scene
on Monday. We had Cohen back on the stand for
just a little bit more testimony,
but then the prosecution rested its case and then the
defense was up
and they ended up only calling 2 witnesses,
neither of whom was Donald Trump,
despite his repeatedly saying that he would be open to
testifying in his own defense,
that he would do it.
There are limits on what he can say,
but the point of him on the stand was just
to
cast Michael Cohen as a liar,
Untrustworthy
at times erratic.
You know, just continue poking holes in his credibility.
Monday afternoon,
Robert Costello appeared to get on
the judge's last nerve. Costello was
reacting verbally and rolling his eyes to
Marshawn's rulings.
On what Costello could and could not say,
like the questions he could and could not respond to.
And he was saying things like jeez and rolling his
eyes.
And the judge cleared the jury from the room and
started to admonish Costello.
But then apparently, Costello, the judge asked him,
are you staring me down?
And at that point, he cleared the the whole public
gallery.
The only people allowed to stay were some of
Trump's, you know, Trump, his team and some of those,
you know, allies who were there.
And we learned from later from the transcript that the
judge told Costello that his behavior was contemptuous
and basically warned him that if you don't
shape up,
I'm going to hold you in contempt of court.
So yeah, that was a really dramatic scene.
There was a lot of yelling.
A lot of the reporters did not want to leave.
But we all, you know,
they got us. The whole thing lasted just around 10
minutes of chaos.
But the thing about Robert Costello is that he is
an attorney himself.
He should know better. He should know the rules of
proper conduct in the courtroom
and how you can and cannot treat a judge while
you're a witness.
So he should know better.
And he just decided to act out anyway.
So the jury's been dismissed until Tuesday
after the Memorial Day holiday.
The judge was very, he seemed really concerned about not
wanting to any big breaks between
the closing statements and the jury instructions and then deliberations.
He kind of wanted that all to go
back-to-back.
So on Tuesday, we're expecting to get closing statements from
both sides.
And then the judge will read
the jury instructions telling them how to do their jobs,
basically how to weigh evidence.
And then the jury goes off to deliberate as early
as Wednesday,
we think.
And they could. We don't know how long they're going
to take to decide.
Could be a couple days,
could be hours. But whatever they decide it will be,
you know, it's a historic case.
It's a historic trial, first criminal trial of a former
or any U.S. President. So whatever they come back with
is going to be a big deal.