Donald Trump and Michael Cohen bury the hatchet

The president and his former fixer put their contentious past behind them and reunited on Cohen’s radio show after years of legal feuds and name calling.

President Donald Trump and his former fixer Michael Cohen are putting their contentious past behind them.

Trump on Thursday joined Cohen, who has testified against him in Congress and in court, for an interview on Cohen’s radio show. The appearance, via phone, marked a new chapter in the pair’s fraught relationship after years of feuding that included Cohen’s serving as a star witness in two trials targeting Trump and congressional testimony in which he called his former boss a “racist, a con man and a cheat.”

During the show, Cohen struck a different tone, quoting a Bible verse about forgiveness, playing the song “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” and largely avoiding mention of their previous clashes.

Trump, for his part, touched on some of their past, saying his former ally had been “weaponized ... like nobody’s ever been weaponized.”

“They weaponized a lot of people, and I respect the fact that you recanted everything you said,” Trump told Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison for what he described in 2018 as actions done in “blind loyalty” to Trump.