Friendship trumps all.
Donald Trump’s turncoat former fixer Michael Cohen spilled the beans Monday on how he mended fences with the president after their messy falling out amid the president’s New York “hush money” trial.
Cohen, during an event plugging his new gig at 770 WABC radio, credited his claim that state Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had coerced him to turn on Trump with bringing him back in the president’s good graces.
“The far-left group on my Substack platform and my other social media platforms began to vociferously attack me because I made certain statements that did not comport to their ideology or their messaging,” he said.
“That came to the attention of the president through a mutual friend. And the president expressed empathy for what I was yet again going through,” Cohen continued.
“As a direct result, I wrote to him in a text thanking him for expressing his sentiment and that it would be nice for us to have an opportunity to reestablish our long lost friendship. To which he responded, ‘That would be nice. Let’s do it.’”
The pair later had a second, “more intimate, more friendly” meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Cohen said.
Cohen served as a key witness against Trump in James’ business fraud case that ended with Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron in 2024 finding the real estate tycoon engaged in fraud by exaggerating his net worth for decades.
Engoron imposed a judgment against Trump that swelled to more than $500 million after interest and fines.
Appellate judges later threw out the fine as excessive, while Trump leapt upon Cohen’s contentions — laid out in a Substack post — that he was pressured and coerced to provide information and testimony in the cases against the president.
The lawyer also testified during the Bragg-led “hush money” trial that Trump was intimately involved in a scheme to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels, in an effort to keep her from going public about claims of a 2006 sexual encounter during the 2016 election.
Manhattan jurors found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, but he ultimately received a no-penalty sentence shortly after winning 2024’s presidential election.
Cohen briefly became a star in anti-Trump circles, but said the honeymoon with the “far left” soured after he pushed back on accusations that the president kept in touch with late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
“I never saw him in Trump’s office. I never heard him on the speaker phone,” Cohen told reporters.
“There was no communication. That angered the community,” he said, referring to his unnamed “far-left” haters.
The flip-flopping former fixer cast his now-mended break with Trump as a “separation.”
“I didn’t betray anyone,” he defiantly contended.
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