Michael Cohen will interview Donald Trump on his New York City radio show on August 20, which is their first public conversation since Cohen turned against the president. The two men have met privately three times and reconciled after a years-long falling out that included Cohen’s testimony against Trump in a criminal trial.
Cohen teased a broadcast that could serve as a platform to ask for a pardon. “I suggest you listen to the show. You may find it extremely interesting,” he said.
Michael Cohen has no clear answer about asking for pardon
When asked if he would seek a presidential pardon from Donald Trump, Michael Cohen gave no clear answer. He served three years in prison starting in 2018 for charges connected to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who claimed an affair with Trump. “We’ll see,” Cohen told Politico. “Will I make that request down the road? I don’t know. Maybe maybe not.”
Cohen previously filed pardon applications with both Trump’s White House and Joe Biden’s administration. A pardon could help him regain his law license, but Cohen minimized that possibility.
“I’m turning 60 next week. What am I going to go start practicing law again?” he said. “What has the loss of my law license prevented me from actually doing? Though I do believe I’m deserving of it, that’s a whole nother story.”
The idea of Cohen asking Trump for a pardon stands out because the former served as the prosecution’s key witness in the 2024 hush money case against the latter.
A New York jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to payments meant to hide the Daniels affair. Trump became the first president convicted of a felony.
For those unaware, Michael Cohen worked for Donald Trump’s organization for years. He later publicly and harshly broke with Trump and criticized him.
The reconciliation began with a text exchange earlier this summer, according to Cohen. The interview on August 20 will represent the culmination of that effort.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on Mandatory.
