’They Weaponized You Like Nobody’s Ever Been Weaponized’: Trump and Michael Cohen Make Peace

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, departs his Manhattan apartment for prison on May 6, 2019. —Spencer Platt—Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday buried the hatchet with his former attorney Michael Cohen , appearing on Cohen’s radio show in what was the first public exchange between the two men in eight years.

Trump and Cohen have a tumultuous history.

Cohen worked as Trump’s personal lawyer dating back to the mid-2000s.

But he severed ties with Trump around 2018, when he pleaded guilty to federal crimes, including campaign finance violations, and said he had made payments to two women at Trump’s direction in an effort to keep them from speaking publicly about alleged affairs with the then-presidential candidate.

He went on to serve a three-year sentence following his guilty plea.

Cohen later made a number of explosive claims about Trump in testimony in front of Congress, and served as a key witness in the criminal hush money trial that resulted in Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts.

Read More: Trump and Hush-Money Trial’s Central Witness Share a Tortured History “You and I have obviously traveled a pretty rocky road together,” Cohen said to Trump on his radio show 77 WABC-AM in New York on Thursday.

The program will air in its entirety on Sunday.

Trump did not dwell too much on the past during the portion of the show that aired on Thursday, but voiced sympathy and appreciation for Cohen.

"They weaponized you like nobody's ever been weaponized, like few have been," Trump told his former lawyer.

“They weaponized a lot of people, and I respect the fact that you recanted everything you said.

And that’s a big — that’s a big thing that you did.

That’s a very big thing.” The men’s conversation also criss-crossed through a range of other topics related to Iran, the economy, and Democrats.

Cohen appeared on CNN ahead of the airing of the program and commented on his relationship, and conversation, with Trump.