A New York-based defense attorney tried to use President Trump’s argument against so-called “flippers” during the conclusion of a trial Thursday, hours after the president suggested that cooperating with investigators in exchange for immunity or sentencing leniency “ought to be illegal.”

The attorney, Klafahni Nkrumah, invoked the president’s comments in his closing argument last week in a drug case that involved someone who agreed to testify against Nkrumah’s client. U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods immediately intervened, accusing Nkrumah of being “out of line.”