39: Inauguration Day Special + A Conversation With the New York Times’ David Enrich January 22, 2021

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

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Politics, News

4.8 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The nation collectively exhaled a sigh of real as Joe Biden was inaugurated the 46th president of the United States. His address was a marked contrast from Trump’s dystopian American Carnage speech four years prior. But the new president inherits a nation beset by crisis and pandemic with bitter internal divisions. The elephant in the room remains the now former President Trump whose impeachment trial looms. Meanwhile America waits for justice to be served. David Enrich from the New York Times joins Michael to discuss Trump’s perilous financial future and is own date with legal jeopardy. For cool Mea Culpa gear, check out www.meaculpapodcast.com/merch

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0:00.0	This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayer Copa Weekend Review.
0:27.2	Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, addressing
0:32.3	a nation battered by a pandemic and violent insurrection with a call for unity.
0:37.5	We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue.
0:41.2	We've learned again that democracy is precious.
0:45.8	Democracy is fragile.
0:48.2	And this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.
0:56.4	On one hand, I can remember the 2016 inauguration, like it happened yesterday.
1:01.4	How Trump's American Carnage speech, written by then Chief Strategist Steve Bannon,
1:06.0	set an ominous tone from the very beginning.
1:08.9	This American Carnage stops right here and stops right now.
1:17.4	Mother's and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities.
1:22.0	We must sit out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape and the crime and
1:28.8	the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country.
1:35.6	We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries.
1:40.5	I will fight to you with every breath in my body and I will never, ever let you down.
1:50.7	Then came the first big lie about crowd size.
1:53.6	It seemed so stupid and insignificant until you looked back on what was truly happening.
1:59.3	How Trump's proxies took to the airwaves and defended something indefensible.
2:04.4	It just wasn't true.
2:06.0	Nor was it even necessary.
2:08.0	Nobody fucking cared except for Donald Trump who was obsessed with obliterating the legacy
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