AP: “When he was Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen was hellbent on silencing Stormy Daniels, even arranging a hush-money payment to the porn actress that landed him in federal prison. Now, as one of many of the former president’s insiders-turned-critics, Cohen is literally broadcasting Daniels’ story – including intimate new details of her alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Seeking to bury the hatchet, Cohen interviews Daniels in the latest episode of his podcast, ‘Mea Culpa,’ in which the two commiserate over life-altering experiences with Trump and his recent departure from office. ‘My battle is just now starting,’ Daniels tells Cohen in their first ever conversation, referring to litigation she said had been in a holding pattern before Trump left office. ‘People are really upset, and they’re just going to get more pissed off at me.’ Cohen, in keeping with the title of his program, apologizes for ‘the needless pain’ he put Daniels through when he arranged a $130,000 payment during the 2016 presidential campaign to keep her quiet about an alleged dalliance with Trump a decade earlier. Trump has denied the affair.”

“The hourlong interview also includes graphic descriptions of Daniels’ 2006 sexual encounter with Trump – details she said supports the veracity of her claims. She calls the encounter ‘the worst 90 seconds of my life, for sure, because it just made me hate myself.’ While she did not feel ‘physically threatened,’ she said she had not expected to have sex with Trump and, at one point, thought about how to escape the room, thinking ‘I could definitely outrun him.’ She repressed details of the rendezvous for years, she said, adding the dynamics only came into focus after she saw the movie ‘Bombshell’ about the sexual harassment women underwent in meetings with former Fox News executive Roger Ailes. ‘I didn’t say anything for years because I didn’t remember,’ she said.”