President Donald Trump sat down for an interview Thursday with Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney and fixer turned prominent adversary, marking a striking reunion after years of legal battles, courtroom testimony and personal attacks.
The interview with Cohen, who hosts “When You Know, You Know” on New York’s 77 WABC, brought together two men whose relationship went from close and loyal friendship to a bitter feud intertwined with Trump’s legal troubles. Trump’s official schedule showed him taping a radio interview Thursday morning.
Cohen worked for Trump for more than a decade, once famously saying he would “take a bullet” for his longtime boss. Their relationship unraveled amid investigations stemming from a $130,000 hush money payment Cohen made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to several federal crimes, including campaign finance violations and lying to Congress, and later served time in prison. He subsequently broke with Trump, wrote books attacking him and became a key witness against the president.
Cohen testified in Trump’s New York civil fraud case and later emerged as the prosecution’s star witness in his 2024 criminal hush money trial. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, though his lawyers repeatedly attacked Cohen’s credibility and portrayed him as a disgruntled former employee with a history of lying.
Ahead of Thursday’s interview, Cohen addressed criticism of his decision to sit down with the president, saying the two had chosen to move beyond their yearslong feud.
“The answer is actually much simpler than people want it to be,” Cohen wrote in a lengthy Substack post Thursday. “We forgave.”
Cohen said forgiveness did not mean erasing their tumultuous history, noting that the two shared roughly 15 years of friendship before their relationship devolved into what he described as “political blood sport.”
“The good times don’t cease to have existed because the bad times came afterward,” Cohen wrote.
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