Michael Cohen is getting another turn in the spotlight, this time behind a radio microphone.
Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Trump who later became one of his most prominent critics, has joined 770 WABC radio.
WABC owner John Catsimatidis, a major Trump supporter, told the Post he cleared the move with the administration before bringing Cohen aboard. “I checked with the White House and they had no objection,” he said.
Catsimatidis also suggested that Cohen’s relationship with the president is no longer as strained as it once was.
“I understand everything is fine,” he said.
Cohen will take over the station’s Sunday host slot, stepping in for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is taking the summer off.
According to Catsimatidis, Cohen is interested in a regular five-day-a-week program, and the station owner said he will “probably” give him one.
Cohen previously admitted to arranging hush-money payments before the 2016 election to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, both of whom claimed they had affairs with Trump during his successful run for the White House.
Trump denies the affairs.
Cohen then became a star witness in two cases against his former boss.
But Cohen now appears to be making nice with Trump.
In January, Cohen accused both New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of forcing him to testify against his former client, as part of their civil fraud and “hush money” cases against the now-sitting president.
“I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking,” Cohen wrote in a Substack post. “Letitia James and Alvin Bragg may not share the same office or political calendar, but they share the same playbook.”
Cohen mostly complimented Trump on the air Sunday when his new boss, Catsimatidis, interviewed him.
“You don’t have to necessarily agree with every single thing that the president says or does … His goal is to actually do right by the country. You may not agree with his methodology, but it’s his methodology,” Cohen said on the “Cats Roundtable.”
“The American people voted for him to be President of the United States. Every single president comes to the Oval Office with their own agenda. Donald Trump is entitled to his own agenda. If you didn’t like it, if you didn’t want it, then maybe you should’ve gotten out and voted. But you didn’t. Seventy-nine million people … voted for the man, and so allow him to fulfill his agenda.
He said Trump is leveraging his executive power to push his agenda.
“What Donald Trump is doing is he’s … using executive power in a way that is unique … He’s willing to do something that no other politician has ever done before. He’s using his power and he’s pressing it to the line, stepping over the line, just to see each day how much further that he can advance his executive powers so that he can actually effectuate his agenda in the way that he believes is beneficial to the American people,” Cohen said.
He added, “When I used to work for him, God knows how many hours every single day, I was known as one of the people who was willing to tell him maybe not what he wants to hear. He would accept that, and he would either use it or discard it. It’s his prerogative. He’s president of the United States. It’s definitively his prerogative.”
