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Lucy Campbell

From ‘predator’ to ‘conman’: how Michael Cohen has described Trump

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Michael Cohen and Donald Trump at the Pastors Leadership Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on 21 September during the 2016 presidential campaign. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Donald Trump has given a radio interview to none other than Michael Cohen, his former longtime personal fixer turned fierce critic, after an apparent reconciliation set the stage for their first public conversation in eight years.

Cohen once had such a tight relationship with the US president that he described himself back in the day as his “attack dog with a law license”, but later became the star witness in Trump’s 2024 criminal trial over his hush-money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to interfere with the 2016 election.

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