Michael Cohen keeps quiet on whether Trump reunion could lead to a pardon
Is not saying whether his latest encounter with Donald Trump is meant to open the door to a presidential pardon. The former fixer,. Michael Cohen — full…
Michael Cohen is not saying whether his latest encounter with Donald Trump is meant to open the door to a presidential pardon. The former fixer, once one of Trump’s closest confidants and later one of his sharpest critics, is moving ahead with a radio and podcast reunion that has drawn fresh attention in Washington.
Cohen has said he and Trump have reconciled, including after meetings last summer at Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey and later at Mar-a-Lago this year, according to the accounts cited in U.S. media reports. He has also said the pair “forgave” each other ahead of the reunion. What he has not done is answer the pardon question.
A feud that turned into a reset
The relationship between the two men has swung from intimate access to public hostility. Cohen long served as Trump’s fixer before becoming an enemy, a shift that helped define some of the most damaging chapters of Trump’s political and legal battles.
That history gives the current rapprochement an unusual edge. A reconciliation between a president and a former aide who once testified against him is already striking. Whether it has any practical payoff is the part Cohen is not spelling out.
Publicly, he has framed the reset in personal terms, saying the two men are putting the past aside and moving forward. He has also said they are not yet sure what that looks like. That leaves the pardon question hanging over the reunion.
Why the question matters
For a global audience, the issue reaches beyond one long-running Trump drama. Presidential pardons in the United States are broad, highly political powers, and any hint that a former adversary might seek one can quickly become a test of motives, loyalty and leverage.
The timing makes the speculation harder to ignore. Cohen is hosting Trump on his radio show at a moment when their personal thaw is already public, and U.S. media outlets have reported that the two met more than once before the broadcast reunion.
Still, Cohen is holding back on the one detail many listeners will want answered. He has not said whether the interview is tied to any effort to seek clemency, leaving the matter to hang in the air as the show goes on.
For now, the closest Cohen has come to defining the relationship is simple: “We are reconciling. We are putting the past aside and moving forward.”
