He Betrayed Trump. Now He’s Back on the Team. Here’s Why It Matters.

The Slatest The strange but entirely foreseeable saga of Trump’s former fixer. Aug 24, 20266:26 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images and Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. Donald Trump and Michael Cohen are friends again. Or at least they aren’t enemies anymore. The rapprochement between the president and his former lawyer, whose excommunication from Trumpworld culminated when Cohen testified for the prosecution at Trump’s 2024 criminal trial, entered a new phase last week when Trump appeared on Cohen’s weekly radio show. The episode, which is titled “Burying the Hatchet” and aired in full Sunday, was a relatively chummy public reunion that dwelled little