Trump Slated For Podcast With Star Hush Money Witness Who Helped Convict Him
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August 20, 2026

According to new reporting from MS Now, citing a Trump White House official, Donald Trump is slated to sit down for a podcast interview with none other than Michael Cohen -- his former personal attorney who served as the prosecution's star witness in the President's infamous Hush Money trial, playing a large role in convicting Trump on 34 felony counts.

According to the official, who spoke with the publication on condition of anonymity about plans not yet made public, the interview will air on Cohen's show today.

Trump and his former attorney had an infamous, public falling out over FBI raids, guilty pleas, congressional testimony, and a bombshell tell-all book, making this newfound "thaw" between the pair particularly interesting, as Donald Trump has never been known to let go of a grudge easily.

Cohen spent more than a decade serving as Donald Trump's closest personal "fixer," which culminated in the now-former attorney personally cutting the hush money check for Stormy Daniels. However, his loyalty to Trump wavered when the FBI began to seize his devices and records in 2018. Eventually, he admitted to tax evasion, campaign finance crimes, and cutting fat checks to women who claimed to have had affairs with Donald Trump.

Under oath, Cohen stated, "I regret doing things for him that I should not have. To keep the loyalty and to do the things that he asked me to do, I violated my moral compass."

During the New York Hush Money trial, Cohen went toe-to-toe with none other than Todd Blanche, the current US Attorney General, just confirmed this month, who, at the time, was serving as Donald Trump's personal defense lawyer. In court, Blanche called Cohen out for referring to Donald Trump as a "Dictator Douche Bag," among other things.

Trump fired plenty of his own personal shots at Cohen, once writing a review of his former personal attorney: "If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen!"

The New York Times recently reported that Cohen and Trump had a clandestine meeting at Donald's Bedminster club back in 2025, marking the first time the pair were known to even speak to each other in years. This meeting appears to have been the first spark of a potential public sit-down between the two men who had spent years publicly ripping out each other's throats.

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