Overview
- President Donald Trump will record an interview with Michael Cohen Thursday morning, and excerpts are set to air Thursday evening and Sunday on Cohen’s WABC radio program and podcast.
- The booking marks a public thaw between two former allies who fell out after the 2018 FBI raid, Cohen’s guilty plea for campaign-finance and tax offenses, and his role as the star witness in the New York hush-money case that contributed to Trump’s 34-count conviction.
- WABC owner John Catsimatidis said he cleared Cohen’s hosting slot with the White House and an anonymous White House official confirmed plans to reporters, details that reporters flagged when tracing how the interview was arranged.
- Cohen has publicly written that he ‘felt pressured and coerced’ by prosecutors in January, a claim Trump’s lawyers have cited in appeals and filings and that could bear on how listeners judge Cohen’s past testimony.
- The conversation highlights a wider shift toward personality-driven platforms for high-profile disputes and could change media messaging around Trump’s legal defenses and Cohen’s public standing, so watch for how excerpts are framed and quoted by the White House and news outlets.