Chaos Looms Large Over The USA - A Conversation With Nick Akerman
Mea Culpa
Michael Cohen
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is my Mayor Coppa. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, baby, don't lie for me. |
| 0:05.0 | If I tell you my story, don't cry for me. |
| 0:09.0 | This is my fair to me. |
| 0:11.0 | This is my Mayor Coppa. |
| 0:14.0 | This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the one and only Mayaculp a podcast, |
| 0:19.0 | available wherever you listen to podcasts look |
| 0:22.9 | there's a moment I keep coming back to one of those moments that doesn't quite feel |
| 0:28.2 | dramatic when it happens but in hindsight it tells you everything about where we are |
| 0:33.2 | headed it's the moment when rules stop being broken and start being redefined in real time. |
| 0:40.7 | That's what I see happening now with the way power is being exercised, tested, and in some cases |
| 0:46.9 | deliberately bent by President Trump. And I don't say that lightly, or as some kind of abstract |
| 0:53.7 | political critique. I say it as someone who |
| 0:57.2 | spent years inside the machinery watching how the law is supposed to constrain behavior and how |
| 1:03.7 | quickly that constraint disappears when people decide the law is just another obstacle to be |
| 1:09.8 | managed rather than obeyed start with |
| 1:13.6 | something that sounds boring on paper the Presidential Records Act bureaucratic |
| 1:19.3 | technical easy to ignore if you don't understand what it really represents but Nick |
| 1:25.8 | Ackerman he's been writing that this is not about paperwork, |
| 1:29.3 | that it's about whether the presidency belongs to the office, or to the individual who |
| 1:35.3 | temporarily occupies it. And if the answer becomes the individual, well, then we are no longer |
| 1:42.3 | talking about a republic governed by continuity. |
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