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Before former radio host David Mueller is alleged to have groped Taylor Swift, his radio station was looking for another person to join him and his partner Ryan Kliesch, on 鈥淩yno and Jackson,鈥� one of his former bosses testified Thursday in U.S. District Court.

But the pair seemed to be lobbying for someone weak, who would 鈥渒eep the show ‘Ryno and Jackson and the little lady,'” said Hershel Coomer, former programming manager at KYGO, a country and western radio station.

Coomer said he presented them with a number of qualified candidates for the job from large radio markets, and they always chose the weakest.

When he flew in Tracy Dixon, a radio personality from San Francisco who is 鈥渁mazing,鈥� he said, they didn鈥檛 want her.

One day they came to his office, visibly excited, and said 鈥淲e鈥檝e got it. This lady who works at our Starbucks is so funny.鈥�

鈥淚 said, that抖阴ap awesome, but I鈥檓 not going to hire a barista from Starbucks to do a morning show in the 18th biggest market in the country,鈥� Coomer said.

Dixon now has a morning show on KYGO.

Coomer, who goes by his radio name 鈥淓ddie Haskell,鈥� denied a story that Mueller told on the stand. In his testimony, Mueller said that on the night he allegedly grabbed Swift抖阴ap bottom during a meet-and-greet before the singer’s 2013 show at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Coomer told him that Swift had jumped into his arms and that he had held her by her rear end.

In fact, Coomer said, the first time he heard anything about the story, was when he read it in a federal lawsuit against Swift that Mueller filed in 2015, 鈥渨hen it went out to the rest of the world.鈥�

鈥淚t抖阴ap an absolute lie and in fact it took him two years to make that story up,鈥� he said.

The allegation haunted Coomer as he looked for a job after leaving聽KYGO. One man he knew at a station where he sought a job later told him that the allegation did come up in discussions of him when he wasn鈥檛 present, Coomer said.

Bob Call, KYGO鈥檚 manager, said that three things convinced him that Mueller had done what Swift accused him of: behind her rear end; the word of Frank Bell, who works with Swift and whom Call said he knows well; and the fact that Mueller changed his story.

During his interview with Mueller the day following the incident, Call said Mueller first told him repeatedly that he didn鈥檛 grope the singer the meet-and-greet. Then he said that if he had touched her it was accidental.

Mueller also told Call that the incident never would have happened if