Despite the bad blood between them over the past years, President Donald Trump and his former attorney, Michael Cohen, buried the hatchet in a new interview.

In a preview clip, the president addressed Cohen’s legal troubles and decision to testify against Trump in a 2024 trial.

As The Hill reported, he couched the comments in the assessment that Cohen had been targeted and coerced:

“They weaponized government against you and against others, Michael. There were plenty of others too, and it’s a disgrace,” the president told Cohen. “I think it’s so amazing that you came out, and you told the story, and people respect you for doing it.”

The conversation, which will air in full on Cohen’s 77 WABC radio show on Sunday, follows years of public acrimony between the pair. 

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The feud between the president and his personal lawyer stemmed from Cohen’s 2018 guilty plea in Manhattan federal court to eight criminal counts in a payment scheme created to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. 

Cohen later served as a star witness in Trump’s New York hush money criminal trial, in which the president was convicted in 2024 on 34 counts of falsifying business records connected to payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. 

The forthcoming interview has already sparked significant social media chatter:

 

NBC News added these details:

Asked earlier in the day on CNN whether he was taking back anything he has said about Trump, Cohen responded, “What was said is said, and that’s where I stand with it.”

Cohen toed a similar line on his radio show, saying he did not want his fight with Trump to be the defining chapter of his life.

“The good memories don’t cease to exist simply because terrible ones followed them,” Cohen said. “True loyalty doesn’t mean pretending that you were never hurt. Reconciliation doesn’t mean surrendering your principles or rewriting facts. It simply means deciding that your story doesn’t have to end in its worst chapter.”

Trump’s remarks, however, were more reminiscent of his campaign-style rallies. He spoke in positive terms about the Iran war, disparaged Democrats and boasted about his economic policies.

The full interview is expected to air at 5 p.m. ET Sunday on Cohen’s WABC radio show, “When You Know, You Know.”

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