Michael Cohen, the former attorney-turned-nemesis of President Donald Trump, confirmed that the president will be appearing on his New York City-area radio program this week.
Cohen wrote on X on Aug. 19 that Trump would appear on the radio show, “When You Know, You Know,” on the night of Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. and on his Aug. 23 show on 770 WABC Radio.
He also told CBS News that it is the first public conversation between the president and him in eight years.
Cohen linked to a Substack article that served as a recollection of the public feud the two had, which included Cohen’s testifying against Trump in his New York City criminal trial in 2024. Cohen served as one of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s star witnesses, alleging the president was intensely involved in a plan to pay off a former adult film actress during his 2016 campaign.
“Eight years of silence. Hundreds of thousands of headlines. Fifteen years of history fractured in an instant, and somehow, against almost every expectation, here we are. Since yesterday’s announcement broke, my inbox has once again become a digital battlefield. It has been flooded with hatred, anger, disbelief, and some of the most spectacularly vicious things imaginable,” Cohen wrote.
He later wrote, “Apparently, quite a few are ready to personally escort me to the gates of hell for daring to share a microphone with Donald Trump again.”
Speaking to Politico on Aug. 19, Cohen answered a question about whether he would seek a presidential pardon.
Cohen in 2018 was sentenced to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, tax evasion, bank fraud, and lying to Congress. He completed his sentence and supervision requirements in November 2021.
“We’ll see,” he said in response. “Will I make that request down the road? I don’t know. Maybe maybe not.”
Referring to the upcoming interview, Cohen told the outlet that listeners will be “interested to hear two individuals that were friends for a decade and a half who have not publicly spoken in eight years” talk about their past.
Trump, who was convicted in a jury trial on 34 counts of falsifying business records, denied the charges against him and pleaded not guilty. He has long said that the Manhattan district attorney’s case and cases that were brought against him in Georgia, Washington, and Florida were a “political witch hunt.”
The judge who oversaw the case, Juan Merchan, sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge in January 2025, about two months after Trump won reelection.
In his first term, Trump often criticized Cohen in response to claims his former lawyer made about him, writing on X in 2018, “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” Cohen would often appear on then-MSNBC and CNN to criticize the first Trump term.
The Epoch Times contacted the White House on Aug. 20 to confirm whether the president would participate in the interview. Neither Trump nor the White House confirmed or commented on the Cohen appearance.
