I hate to say I told you so.
Nearly a year ago, I told you Michael Cohen and Donald Trump had reconnected. I told you their reconciliation was real, there was a plan behind it, and Cohen’s public attacks against Trump would eventually be replaced by something very different.
People laughed. They attacked me. They called me jealous, bitter and crazy.
Now Michael Cohen and Donald Trump are preparing for their first public conversation in eight years.
Trump will call into Cohen’s radio program Thursday. The interview is expected to be recorded that morning and aired in installments Thursday evening and Sunday.
Cohen confirmed that he reached out to the White House and invited Trump himself.
Let that sink in.
This is the same Michael Cohen who spent years telling the public that Donald Trump belonged in prison. The same Michael Cohen who became a central witness in two major New York cases against Trump. The same Michael Cohen who built a career attacking the man he once served as personal attorney and fixer.
Now he is welcoming Trump onto his program.
And this did not come out of nowhere.
In January, Cohen publicly accused New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of pressuring and coercing him into testifying against Trump.
That was not simply another change in Cohen’s commentary. It was a direct attack on the integrity of the two New York cases Trump has been trying to destroy.
Bragg prosecuted the criminal case in which a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Cohen was a central witness.
James brought the civil fraud case against Trump and the Trump Organization. Cohen testified in that proceeding, too.
Now the witness who helped build both cases is attacking the prosecutors—and preparing to give Donald Trump a friendly national platform.
That is not a coincidence.
It is a strategy.
At the same time, Trump is threatening another person who once helped hold him accountable: retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
Vindman lost Florida’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday to state Rep. Angie Nixon. Trump immediately celebrated, calling him a “SleazeBag.” The following morning, Trump went much further.
Trump called Vindman a “treasonous creep,” returned to the 2019 telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and declared that Vindman “should be prosecuted.”
Vindman was serving on the National Security Council when he listened to Trump’s call with Zelenskyy. He reported his concerns through official channels and later testified under subpoena before Congress. That episode led to Trump’s first impeachment by the House.
Now Trump is trying to rewrite that history, once again calling it his “Perfect Call” and demanding that the witness who testified about it be prosecuted.
Trump is not simply mocking a defeated political candidate.
He is sending a message.
And these two stories—Cohen returning to Trump and Trump demanding Vindman’s prosecution—are connected by something much bigger.
Both are about rewriting history.
In New York, Trump wants to erase his criminal convictions and portray himself as the victim of corrupt prosecutors.
With Vindman, Trump wants to erase the truth about Ukraine and replace it with the lie that there was no Russian interference, no abuse of power and no legitimate reason to investigate him—only a Democratic witch hunt.
In both stories, Trump wants to turn himself from the accused into the hero.
What I’m hearing about the Cohen plan, Trump’s New York cases, the people Cohen may target and the investigation being assembled in South Florida goes far beyond anything being reported publicly.
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