Michael Cohen reminisces with ‘boss’ Donald Trump on friendship after years-long feud
US President Donald Trump appeared on former lawyer Michael Cohen’s radio show set to air on Sunday, August 23 after the pair has spent years in a bitter public feud
US President Donald Trump has been interviewed by former lawyer Michael Cohen(Image: zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx)
A former ally-turned-nemesis of US President Donald Trump has said the two have reconciled.
Trump appeared on former lawyer Michael Cohen’s radio show “When You Know…You Know” set to air on Sunday, August 23. His appearance marks a public reunion with the man who testified against him both in court and before Congress.
Cohen spent years accusing the US leader of being a “racist,” a “predator” and a “fraud” after he pled guilty and implicated Trump in wrongdoing in 2018. He also helped prosecutors convict Trump of 34 felonies in 2024.
Michael Cohen was Donald Trump’s former lawyer(Image: Getty Images)
In a snippet of the interview shared on Thursday, August 20, Cohen calls Trump “boss” and “sir”. He recalls their former closeness.
“Boss, you remember when I was by your side? I literally used to analyze the polls,” Cohen said during a 15-minute portion of the interview aired Thursday night on his WABC-77 radio program.
“Maybe what we should do is then have a press conference and literally put out all of the accomplishments,” Cohen suggested.
Also in the snippet, Trump said: “They weaponised you, like nobody’s ever been weaponised, like few have been… they weaponised you, they weaponised a lot of people and I respect the fact that you recanted everything you said and that’s a big thing that you did.”
Cohen is called Trump “boss” and “sir” during the interview(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
The impending show has brought to light reports of Cohen considering asking for pardon.
Cohen told CNN that prior to Trump taking office, he did have a pardon application in with predecessor Joe Biden.
The pardon was denied.
Cohen said he took the same application, with the same documentation and resubmitted it to Trump, but has not received an acknowledgement that the application has been received.
He was the US president’s personal attorney before a major fall-out. He became the star witness in a landmark hush money case.
The case went on to become the first-ever criminal conviction of a former president.
Cohen himself was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 on charges related to hush money payments to help conceal Trump’s affair with an adult star.
Trump during the hush money trial(Image: Getty Images)
Cohen also wrote in a substack that he would have an “impossible reunion” with Trump.
He wrote: “Eight years of silence. Hundreds of thousands of headlines. Fifteen years of history fractured in an instant, and somehow, against almost every expectation, here we are.”
Cohen said questions have been asked over how the men could reconcile.
“The answer is actually much simpler than people want it to be. We forgave,” he said.
” Donald Trump and I spent roughly fifteen years in the trenches together. We built relationships, shared victories, endured setbacks and pursued a path that ultimately reached the highest office on Earth.
“Then everything exploded.
“The friendship fractured. Trust disappeared. The relationship became ammunition. The world watched as two people who had once been extraordinarily close became combatants in one of the most public political implosions imaginable.”
Cohen said that 15 years does not vanish because the “relationship becomes toxic” and memories do not disappear.
“Loyalty doesn’t mean pretending someone never hurt you. Forgiveness doesn’t mean surrendering your principles. Reconciliation doesn’t mean rewriting history,” he said.
