Trump to Interview Former Lawyer Michael Cohen on Thursday
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President Donald Trump is set to record an interview Thursday with Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer turned public critic, according to a White House official granted anonymity to describe plans that had not been publicly announced.
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Washington Times CultureWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to appear Thursday on the radio show of his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen, making a public reunion with the man who once called him a “Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” and testified against him both in court and before Congress.
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Cohen served as the star witness in the Manhattan hush-money case that ended with Trump convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He pleaded guilty in 2018 to tax and campaign-finance violations tied to payments made to silence women who alleged affairs with Trump, and spent more than a year in prison.
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Washington Times CultureBut the split from Cohen was perhaps the most personal. Cohen once boasted that he would “take a bullet” for Trump and was by Trump’s side during his political rise. After their public breakup, Cohen’s testimony in Trump’s 2024 criminal hush-money trial instead paved the way for Trump’s criminal conviction just as he was trying to make his political comeback.
Vanity FairTo be sure, Cohen may have an ulterior motive for this dizzying rapprochement. He told CNN on Thursday that he had submitted a pardon application to the White House and planned to follow up the next day; Trump is currently appealing his felony conviction related to the infamous hush-money payment. “I respect the fact that you recanted everything you said,” Trump told Cohen on the air. “And that’s a big thing that you did.” (While it’s not clear what Cohen has privately said to Trump, he has not retracted the testimony he gave under oath.)
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In his tell-all memoir in 2020, “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump,” Cohen was unsparing, calling Trump an “organized crime don” and “master manipulator.”
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Vanity FairWith that out of the way, Trump began to ramble: about Iran, about Venezuela, about how “the rallies are potentially bigger than ever,” about how Kamala Harris “knew less about the border than a child would know.” Cohen barely got a word in, but he slipped into reminiscence easily: “Boss, you remember when I was by your side?” During the decade-long period when Cohen played Trump’s antagonist in a national psychodrama, he looked agitated and haggard, but now, he sounded as if he had stepped back into a prior state of exhilarated comfort that had never quite worn off. In Disloyal, Cohen asks himself about the source of his “starstruck, moth-to-the-flame compulsion to insinuate [himself] with a man so transparently problematic in myriad ways.”
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01 Newsweek President Donald Trump posted a scathing attack on Tucker Carlson on social media on Friday night, mocking his political chances and others in his breakaway MAGA faction.
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02 NYT Arts Rosie O’Donnell Ends Late Night Stint With a Ditty to ‘Donny Boy’ “It’s kind of weird to think he spent more nights with me this week than Melania,” O’Donnell said of President Trump on her last night guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
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03 Washington Times Culture Pop singer Ariana Grande criticized President Trump on Thursday after his administration used her 2024 song “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” in a TikTok video promoting anti-transgender views.
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04 Vanity Fair “The American people have spoken and re-elected Donald Trump,” Cohen wrote in an email. “Accordingly, I believe we must all acknowledge and respect the office of the Presidency and dismiss the case forthwith.”
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05 Fox News Lifestyle First lady Melania Trump, Roger Penske, chairman of the Penske Corporation, Doug Boles, president of IndyCar, and Fox Sports CEO and executive producer Eric Shanks announce a $2 million Fox Corporation, IndyCar partnership for a scholarship initiative for foster children for Fostering the Future.
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06 Breitbart Entertainment The interview is scheduled to air later Thursday on Cohen’s radio program, with additional excerpts running on his Sunday show. Cohen confirmed the sit-down after MS NOW first reported it, telling CBS News that he initiated the conversation.
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