President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen has revealed he has quietly rebuilt his relationship with the president after years of publicly attacking him.
According to a report from The New York Times, Trump and Cohen held a private meeting last summer at the president’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, ending years of hostility.
The meeting was reportedly followed by another discussion this year and additional contact with several of Trump’s closest allies.
Cohen, whose testimony helped secure Trump’s conviction on trumped-up charges of falsifying business records, has sharply changed his public rhetoric in recent months.
He has increasingly criticized the prosecutors who built the case and says his relationship with Trump has improved.
“If Donald Trump and Michael Cohen can rekindle and reconcile their past relationship, then anyone should be able to,” Cohen said.
Cohen is also launching a new radio show on New York’s WABC, a station with a largely conservative audience, and has said he hopes the program will eventually become nationally syndicated.
The apparent truce marks a remarkable reversal after years in which Cohen positioned himself as one of Trump’s most vocal opponents.
After pleading guilty to federal crimes in 2018, including charges related to the $130,000 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, Cohen spent years cooperating with investigators, publishing books attacking Trump, hosting a podcast, and making frequent television appearances criticizing his former boss.
He later became the key witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump.
However, he has since argued that he “felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking.
Cohen has also accused prosecutors of asking “inappropriate leading questions to elicit answers that supported their narrative.”
According to the Times, Cohen said backlash from liberal supporters over those comments eventually led to renewed contact with Trump.
“We rekindled our relationship because of a shared experience of betrayal,” Cohen said.
The report also says Cohen has reached out to several Trump allies, including Lara Trump, and has defended the president in recent interviews over questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein.
According to the Times, WABC owner John Catsimatidis checked with the White House before offering Cohen the radio show, though he declined to provide further details.
In the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, Cohen claimed that Trump would assassinate his political opponents if he ever returned to office.
“Just like Putin, once you start to get too big for your own britches, people will start flying out of windows, they will end up in gulags,” he said on MSNBC at the time.
“As Donald says all the time, send them to Gitmo, send them to Guantanamo bay.”
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