Trump and former fixer Michael Cohen bury the hatchet

Donald TrumpDonald Trump and Michael Cohen bury the hatchetThe pair publicly reunited on Cohen’s radio show after years of legal feuds and name calling.Listen to this article with a free profile00:0000:00Add to GooglePresident Trump and Michael Cohen reunite after years of bitter feuding01:29Get more newsLiveonShareAdd to GoogleAug. 20, 2026, 9:32 PM EDTBy Adam Reiss, Sarah Dean, Dareh Gregorian and Raquel Coronell UribePresident Donald Trump and his former fixer Michael Cohen are putting their contentious past behind them.The president on Thursday joined Cohen, who has testified against him in Congress and in court, for an interview on Cohen’s radio show. The appearance, via phone, marked a new chapter in the pair’s fraught relationship after years of feuding that included Cohen serving as a star witness in two trials targeting Trump and congressional testimony where he called his former boss a “racist, a con man and a cheat.”During the show, Cohen struck a different tone, quoting a Bible verse about forgiveness, playing the song “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” and largely avoiding mention of their previous clashes.The president, for his part, touched on some of their past, saying his former ally had been “weaponized…like nobody’s ever been weaponized.”“They weaponized a lot of people, and I respect the fact that you recanted everything you said,” Trump told Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison for what he described in 2018 as actions done in “blind loyalty” to Trump.Asked earlier in the day on CNN whether he was taking back anything he’s said about Trump, Cohen responded, “What was said is said, and that’s where I stand with it.”Cohen toed a similar line on his radio show, saying he did not want to have his fight with Trump be the defining chapter of his life.“The good memories don’t cease to exist simply because terrible ones followed them,” Cohen said. “True loyalty doesn’t mean pretending that you were never hurt. Reconciliation doesn’t mean surrenderin...