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President Donald Trump's team didn't expect him to agree to an interview with his former fixer turned foe Michael Cohen, a White House reporter shared.

During a Thursday appearance on CNN, Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, revealed that Cohen had a reputation in Trump's circle of being unforgivable, which is why insiders were caught off guard when the president signed on for a 40-minute interview with him.

"Trump really never closes the door on almost anyone entirely. Actually, I always said — and others in Trump's world, who would say too when having this conversation — was except for Michael Cohen," Haberman said. "That was because most people believed around Trump that there was just no way that Trump was ever going to get past that trial in 2024."...

Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen released a preview of his interview with President Donald Trump, and commentators slammed his fawning tone.

On Thursday, the New York radio station where Cohen works as a host published a few minutes of his interview with Trump, while withholding the full interview until later in the week.

Throughout the interview, Cohen called Trump "sir" and "boss," complimented his handling of the war in Iran, and agreed with Trump that he had been "weaponized" against the president. Cohen testified in a case that led to Trump's criminal conviction in New York for paying hush money....

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed President Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen on whether he stood by his testimony against the president.

On Thursday, Tapper interviewed Cohen about his reunion with Trump. Cohen announced on Thursday that he would publish a podcast interview with Trump.

Cohen was Trump's personal lawyer before pleading guilty in 2018 over hush money paid to women alleging affairs, and later served as a star witness in the 2024 trial that ended in a 34-count conviction....

New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman said President Donald Trump hopes to play his reunion with his fixer to his advantage.

Michael Cohen announced he would interview Trump on his podcast, despite their fallout in 2018. During an interview on CNN on Thursday, Haberman said Cohen's interview with Trump isn't as surprising on its face, given how it could play to the president's advantage.

In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to eight criminal counts and implicated Trump in a scheme to silence women who claimed affairs with him during the 2016 campaign. Haberman noted that Trump is appealing his conviction in that case after he was found guilty by a jury on 34 felony counts in 2024....

Donald Trump's former lawyer said his Valentine's Day dinner was ruined by a barrage of emails resulting from what he dubs a "smear campaign" related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney and "fixer" who spent time in jail in connection with campaign finance violations, wrote in an essay on Sunday about his experience.

"On February 14th, Valentine’s Day, while my wife and I were sitting down to celebrate thirty-three years together (minus one stolen year by incarceration), emails were sent from what appears to have been a bogus account to university presidents I had recently addressed. Not reporters. Not prosecutors. University leaders," he wrote this weekend. "Halfway through dinner, my phone began lighting up. Forwarded emails. Questions. Confusion. Instead of cutting into a heart-shaped chocolate mousse cake and enjoying my usual black coffee, I was responding to a coordinated smear campaign delivered directly into academic inboxes."...

Two former Trump insiders who are now activists against the president turned against one another in the run-up to Christmas.

Soviet-born Lev Parnas, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first administration and was purportedly sent to Ukraine to help Trump and Giuliani make contacts there for the purposes of digging up negative info on Hunter Biden, has gone to war against former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen was previously convicted for campaign finance violations.

Parnas, who was also convicted of campaign finance violations and fraud, and today reports on Trump from outside the administration, took to his Substack to attack both Cohen and MeidasTouch, a progressive media company....