Trump Says He’d ‘Consider’ Pardoning Michael Cohen

The president and Cohen appear to be on a path to reconciliation after their relationship publicly imploded at the end of Trump’s first term.

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Michael Cohen and President Donald Trump have two decades of history between them, and it now appears that the president’s former fixer is trying to get back in Trump’s good graces. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

President Donald Trump said he would “consider” a pardon for his former fixer turned foe, Michael Cohen.

Asked if he planned to pardon his former attorney, Trump told reporters Wednesday he had “never been asked that question” and reiterated that he believed Cohen had recanted his testimony in the New York fraud case against him.

“If everything is checking out, it’s something I would consider,” Trump said before departing for the GOP midterm convention in Dallas. “What they did to Michael Cohen was a disgrace. They forced him to say things that he didn’t want to say and that he didn’t believe.”