Rosie O’Donnell has struck up an unlikely friendship with President Trump’s incarcerated former personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Outspoken Trump loather and archnemesis O’Donnell contacted Cohen in writing after he was sent to the medium-security federal prison in Otisville, NY, last year, according to a source.
Comedian and former host of “The View” O’Donnell is even said to have visited Cohen — who is again shopping a tell-all book about his years working for Trump — at the upstate facility.
The source said, “Rosie and Michael have bonded over Trump, and she’s helping him with his book, which is now highly critical of the president.”
Reps for both did not comment.
Longtime Trump fixer Cohen once said he’d “take a bullet” for his former boss and famously paid off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her tryst with Trump a secret.
But Cohen and Trump’s relationship soured into hostility while, amid multiple investigations, the president ignored his requests for a pardon and stopped covering legal bills.
Cohen, serving a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to tax evasion and bank fraud, gave evidence to special counsel Robert Mueller about the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia and testified before Congress, saying of his former boss, “He is a racist. He is a con man. He is a cheat.”
Meanwhile, Trump tweeted that Cohen was a “bad lawyer and fraudster.”
And let’s not forget how Trump has taken to Twitter to call O’Donnell “crude, rude, obnoxious and dumb,” among other insults.
Cohen had originally shopped a positive book to publishers in happier times. But that tome was scrapped after the FBI raided Cohen in April 2018.
Now he has come up with a new book that insiders say promises to dish serious dirt on the president, his family and the Trump Organization.
He is rumored to be looking for a deal as high as $10 million.
A source in Cohen’s camp says he’s also mulling TV and movie deals, possibly helped by O’Donnell’s production company.