Consequences Loom Large For Fox News + A Conversation with Rick Wilson

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

News, Politics

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpawelcomes back Rick Wilson, longtime Republican political strategist, infamous negative ad-maker, and commentator. Since 2015, he's been a leading conservative critic of Donald Trump. His regular column with The Daily Beast is a hilarious and spot-on must-read in the political community. He is also a founding member of the Lincoln Project. Rick’s been published in The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, The London Spectator, Rolling Stone, The New York Daily News, USA Today, The Bulwark and beyond and he’s constantly called upon for sharp political insights on the national news networks, including CNN and MSNBC. He’s also a fan favorite on Real Time with Bill Maher. A 30-year veteran of politics, Rick got his start in the 1988 Presidential campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush. Rick is also a best-selling author, his latest book is “Running Against the Devil” and his #1 New York Times, best-seller, “Everything Trump Touches Dies” which quintessentially defined the Trump and Michael and Rick dig deep into Clarence Thomas, Fox News, and all of Trump's pending cases and DeSantis.

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0:00.0	This is my Mayor Cop.
0:09.0	Oh, baby, don't lie for me.
0:11.0	If I tell you my story, don't cry for me.
0:15.0	I take my time that's fun by me.
0:17.0	This is my...
0:19.0	That's fair to my... This is Michael mayor coppa.
0:26.0	This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Culper podcast.
0:31.6	Yesterday, Trump filed a lawsuit against his lawyer, his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
0:37.1	He's suing Cohen for $500 million for allegedly breaching the terms of their NDA.
0:39.3	And this is how it goes when you work for Donald Trump. You handle his business for how many years, I don't know.
0:41.3	Then he asked you to pay off his mistress.
0:43.3	You take out a home equity line of credit to get the money.
0:47.3	You pay the mistress the money.
0:49.3	You lie for him.
0:50.3	You serve three years in federal prison for lying for him and then when you get
0:55.0	out he sues you for five hundred million dollars it's the circle jerk of life
0:59.4	as you probably heard by now Donald Trump is suing me for a cool half billion
1:05.3	dollars I suppose he thinks that the move will somehow delay justice put me off
1:10.5	I have no idea.
1:11.6	But nothing, certainly no lawsuit trumped up by Donald's crackerjacked lawyers will ever put me off.
1:18.6	And the word, Salad, they're calling a lawsuit, is no more than a list of Donald's meritless grievances against me.
1:25.6	So boo fucking who, Donald?
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