Michael Cohen says an unexpected text repaired his relationship with Trump
michael cohen He said he and President Donald Trump have buried the hatchet.
Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer testified against the president during his trial in a lawsuit. hush money payment To porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Trump called Cohen “That guy”liarAt the time, he pleaded not guilty to charges of falsifying business records and denied having an affair with Daniels.
Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on charges related to this incident, including campaign finance violations.
But Cohen said on 77 WABC: “Cats and Cosby” It shows that the two men began making up about six months ago. He told CNN on Monday that the current state of their relationship is “cordial and growing.”
It all started with an unexpected message from someone Cohen described as a “White House friend and insider” who was relaying a message from the president, Cohen said on his radio show. He declined to name the insider, but said the person “once again expressed to me the President’s genuine empathy for the hell I’m in, and I deeply appreciate that text.”
“I thanked him, expressed my sincere hope that this long and exhausting fight between the two of us could finally end, and what was even more interesting was that he responded almost immediately, acknowledging that it was, in fact, time for us to meet,” Cohen said, adding that he was “very surprised” by the text.
It looks like this meeting hasn’t happened yet. When asked by CNN if that was happening, Cohen said he would ask Trump for permission and hoped to “return to the White House for a one-on-one visit within the next few weeks.”
CNN has reached out to the White House to take Trump’s side on the state of the two men’s relationship.
“I had put the text: ‘We both knew the cost of this war,’ and at that moment the ice between us didn’t melt, it broke, and that’s how it happened,” Cohen said. he said. “Cats and Cosby” to show.
Cohen described a “media blitz” from the “left,” as the president described it: “The president knew, plain and simple, what it felt like to be at the center of this kind of partisan targeting.”
It started with an article published in Substack in January Cohen described how he “felt pressured and pressured” by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to “provide information and testimony that would only satisfy the government’s desire to prosecute President Trump and secure a verdict and conviction against him.”
Cohen told CNN that the message from the intermediary arrived after the Substack post, but did not specify exactly when.
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