Trump to sit down with Michael Cohen for interview, former fixer says

Trump and Cohen to Share a Radio Conversation After Years of Public Feud

Provpnadvice.com – The man who once called Donald Trump his “best friend” and later became his most vocal legal adversary is about to sit across from the president again — this time in a recorded interview set to air on New York radio. Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney who spent years in prison after pleading guilty to charges tied to campaign-finance violations and hush-money payments, confirmed Thursday that portions of a conversation with Trump will broadcast Thursday evening on 77 WABC, the long-running AM station in Manhattan. Additional segments are scheduled for a program Cohen himself hosts on the same network later that week, on Sunday.

A Reconciliation That Surprised Even Cohen

The interview marks a striking turn in a relationship that, for roughly four years, defined one of the most bitter personal feuds in modern American politics. Cohen had been Trump’s closest legal confidant from the early 2000s through the 2016 campaign, managing the president’s private finances, real-estate dealings, and — most consequentially — the arrangement of payments to women who had alleged relationships with Trump before the election. After Cohen’s 2018 guilty plea and subsequent imprisonment, the two traded sharp public jabs for years. Trump called him a “liar” and a “thief”; Cohen responded with books, interviews, and pointed commentary.

That antagonism, by Cohen’s own account, ended abruptly last summer. Speaking on WABC’s “Cats & Cosby” radio talk show alongside hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby, Cohen described the moment the thaw began:

“Out of nowhere, when I was sitting with my wife at a restaurant, my phone buzzed and it was a text from that friend who expressed to me the president’s genuine empathy for the hell that I was being dragged through … I deeply appreciated that text.”

Cohen said he responded to the message directly:

“I actually texted the president. I thanked him. Expressed my sincere hope that this long, exhausting feud between the two of us could finally end.”

He added that the two have since been on noticeably better terms, though he did not specify the precise date of the exchange or the circumstances that prompted Trump’s outreach.

The Stormy Daniels Payment and Its Aftermath

For readers who may have followed the saga only in fragments: in 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts of federal charges, including tax evasion and bank fraud, as part of a deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Among the facts he admitted was that he arranged a $120,000 payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels — whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — roughly two weeks before the November 2016 election. The payment was intended to buy her silence about an alleged one-night affair with Trump in 2006. Cohen later testified that the payment was directed by Trump himself and that he expected to be reimbursed. Trump’s campaign never listed the payment as a contribution, a fact that became central to Mueller’s investigation and to Cohen’s own sentencing.

Cohen served roughly three years in federal prison, released in August 2021. Since then he has written books, appeared on podcasts, and maintained a public profile that, until recently, was defined largely by his criticism of the president.

What Will Actually Air

Cohen clarified the format of the upcoming broadcast in a social-media post on Thursday. Earlier, the media outlet MS NOW had reported that the conversation would appear as an episode of Cohen’s own podcast. Cohen pushed back on that characterization, specifying that the material will run on the radio show rather than on a podcast platform. The distinction matters to listeners who follow WABC’s schedule: the Thursday-night segment will reach an audience tuned to the station’s traditional AM frequency, while the Sunday installment will carry the branding of the program Cohen hosts on the network.

The White House had not confirmed Trump’s participation as of the time of writing. A request for comment was sent to the presidential press office, but no response had been received before publication.

Why the Interview Matters

Beyond the novelty of two men who once traded insults on television now sharing a microphone, the conversation carries weight because it touches questions that have never been fully resolved in the public record. The mechanics of the Stormy Daniels payment, the role of Cohen’s former boss in directing it, and the broader question of whether campaign-finance rules were bent around the 2016 election all remain topics of interest to voters, journalists, and scholars of American politics. A recorded, on-the-air exchange between the two principals — rather than a written statement or a third-party account — offers a rare opportunity to hear each man frame the episode in his own words, in real time, before a live audience.

WABC, which has broadcast since 1922 and carries a mix of news, talk, and sports programming, has long served as a platform for high-profile political interviews in the New York market. The station’s “Cats & Cosby” show, hosted by Catsimatidis and Cosby, has featured guests ranging from sitting senators to former heads of state, making it a plausible venue for a conversation of this scale.

Whether the interview will produce new information, reinforce existing narratives, or simply confirm the personal reconciliation Cohen described remains to be heard. What is certain is that the tone of the exchange will be watched closely: after years of public hostility, even a cordial radio conversation between Trump and Cohen will be read as a signal about how each man wishes to frame the final chapter of their relationship.