Breaking!!! Georgia Grand Jury Will Indict Trump + A Conversation with Tara Setmayer

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

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Politics, News

4.8 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes back one of our favorite people from the Lincoln Project, Tara Setmayer. She’s a former CNN political commentator, a contributor to ABC News, and a former GOP Communications Director on Capitol Hill. Setmayer has appeared on ABC's The View, ABC's Good Morning America, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. She was named a Harvard Institute of Politics Spring 2020 Resident Fellow. Also in 2020, she joined The Lincoln Project as a senior advisor. Setmayer hosts the live show "The Breakdown" alongside co-founder Rick Wilson, on the organization's streaming channel, LPTV. She’s also a fierce critic of the ongoing MAGA agenda as well as the damaged GOP that has grown like a cancer from the hard right.

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0:00.0	This is my Gokowen and you're listening to the Mayor called the podcast.
0:27.8	This looking like Ron DeSantis honeymoon with the conservative media will end bitterly as
0:32.9	Fox News and Republican Kingmaker Rupert Murdoch tire of the Florida Governor's Flounder
0:38.9	and campaign and cringe worthy media stunts.
0:43.1	For the past year, the whispers were that DeSantis was the next Trump precisely because he
0:48.9	wasn't Donald Trump.
0:50.6	A darling of Fox News for his non-stop culture war antics and hard-right record, DeSantis
0:57.1	was a smarter, more disciplined, less chaotic version of the mango Mussolini.
1:03.7	But the same thing that is in DeSantis to the GOP's big money donors, the fact that
1:09.1	he was not Donald Trump has become their main gripe.
1:13.6	The man is no Donald Trump, meaning he has the personality of a fucking toilet plunger
1:19.2	and a complete and total inability to connect with voters on the campaign trail.
1:25.4	And now those very same Murdoch led outlets that helped DeSantis build his national brand.
1:32.4	Are now worried that the Florida Gov's 2024 chances are, well, slim to none.
1:39.1	The man cannot catch Trump in the polls despite being indicted on 37 felony counts that
1:45.4	include espionage and obstruction of justice and also having been found guilty of sexual
1:52.2	assault.
1:53.7	Now DeSantis on the other hand has been found guilty of, well, just being fucking boring.
1:59.7	And early this week, he even dismissed speculation that he would serve as Trump's running
2:05.2	mate in 2024, saying, I'm not a number two guy.
2:10.0	This despite his campaign fucking floundering in the toilet bowl of conservative politics.
2:16.6	DeSantis is trailing Trump in the 2024 GOP primary race, listening to this folks by nearly
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