Michael Cohen now describes himself as back in President Trump's corner, after years spent trying to help bring him down. In a Friday interview with New York's 77 WABC (where he apparently just landed a new job), Trump's former so-called fixer and star witness in his criminal hush-money trial said he and the president have quietly patched things up over what Cohen framed as one important thing in common, reports the Independent. "We rekindled our relationship because of a shared experience of betrayal," said Cohen, who once vowed he'd "take a bullet" for Trump before switching to calling him a "con man" in 2019 congressional testimony.
Cohen, 59, said his thaw with Trump began after he publicly criticized New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and after he wrote that he never saw Trump interact with Jeffrey Epstein—comments he claims triggered a backlash from "the left" and cost him tens of thousands of online followers. "For years ... they embraced me as their ultimate weapon" against Trump, Cohen noted. "But loyalty on that side of the aisle is completely transactional. And the moment that I deviated from their script ... they turned feral."
A mutual friend allegedly flagged that pile-on to Trump, who, Cohen said, expressed "genuine empathy" for Cohen's situation and quickly agreed when Cohen texted to suggest ending their "long, exhausting feud." "We both knew the cost of this war," Cohen said, per the Hill. "In that moment the ice between us, it didn't just melt—it broke." Cohen also used the interview to cast himself as an early catalyst for Trump's political rise, recalling that a 2011 poll clipping he handed Trump helped spark the idea of a presidential run.
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