Michael Cohen says he and President Donald Trump have finally called a truce after years of bitter public feuding that culminated with Cohen serving as a key witness against his former boss.
Trump’s former personal attorney and longtime fixer testified against the president during the New York hush money trial involving payments to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Trump, who repeatedly branded Cohen a “liar,” pleaded not guilty to the felony charges of falsifying business records and denied having an affair with Daniels.
Cohen was later sentenced to three years in prison on federal charges that included campaign finance violations tied to the case.
Now, however, Cohen says the two have quietly begun repairing their relationship.
Speaking on 77 WABC’s “Cats & Cosby” show, Cohen said the reconciliation began roughly six months ago. He later told CNN on Monday that his relationship with Trump is now “cordial and growing.”
According to Cohen, it all started with an unexpected text message from someone he described as a “White House friend and an insider,” who passed along a message from Trump. Cohen declined to identify the person but said the intermediary “expressed to me the president’s genuine empathy for the hell that I was being dragged through, yet again, and I deeply appreciated that text.”
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“I thanked him, expressed my sincere hope that this long exhausting feud between the two of us could finally end, and what was, I found, even more interesting is that he replied almost immediately, agreeing that it was actually time for us to meet,” Cohen said, adding he was “very surprised” by the text.
The face-to-face meeting has not happened yet.
When CNN asked whether the meeting had taken place, Cohen said he would first seek Trump’s permission before discussing it publicly and said he hopes “to return to the White House for a one-on-one visit in the next few weeks.”
CNN reported it has reached out to the White House for comment on Cohen’s account of the renewed relationship.
“I had put in the text: ‘We both knew the cost of this war,’ and in that moment, the ice between us, it didn’t just melt, it broke, and that’s how it all happened,” Cohen said on the “Cats & Cosby” show.
Cohen also said Trump sympathized with what he described as a “media onslaught” from the political left.
“The president knew exactly what it felt like to be at the center of that kind of partisan target practice, plain and simple,” Cohen said.
Cohen traced the reconciliation back to a Substack post he published in January, in which he claimed he “felt pressured and coerced” by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump.”
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