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THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

How The GOP Became An Apocalyptic Death Cult With Diane Benscoter

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Join us for an important and terrifying episode that looks into why so many Americans have fallen into the cult of disinformation, and how we can pull them out with Diane Benscoter, a speaker, author, and cult de-programer who spent five years deep inside the “Moonie” religious cult before finding her way back.

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0:00.0

This is my Mayo Cop

0:05.8

This is my Mayo Copa.

0:09.8

Oh, baby, don't lie for me.

0:12.0

If I tell you my story, don't cry for me.

0:15.3

I did my time that's fun by me.

0:17.5

This is my meo, go, ball.

0:22.6

This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayaculpa podcast.

0:26.6

I want to apologize in advance for the less than perfect sound quality you receive and deserve here on Mayacolpa.

0:34.6

I'm currently in Miami celebrating the graduation of my son from the Herbert

0:39.5

Business School at the University of Miami. Nevertheless, I wanted to make sure this important

0:45.3

episode with Diane Ben Skoder airs on time. So please enjoy the episode and thank you for being a part

0:53.0

of the Maya Culp colpa podcast movement as we know

0:56.5

today's republican party is really really good at one thing fucking lying and they do it pretty much

1:03.8

every single day and seemingly without any remorse they lie to the press they lied to their constituents, maybe even lying to themselves.

1:14.6

But as the old saying goes, a fish rots from the head down.

1:18.6

And the de facto head of the Republican Party is still Donald J. Trump, aka the fucking liar-in-chief.

1:26.6

On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting,

1:31.3

and yet the corporate media Democrats slander them with the made-up term insurrectionist.

1:37.3

I'm sorry to say, I don't hold out much hope that the January 6th hearings will change the minds of GOP voters.

1:45.0

A recent poll in Newsweek found that half of all Republicans still believe that the

1:51.0

January 6 rioters were simply protecting democracy.

1:56.0

And Republican leaders, for the most part, affirmed Trump's ludicrous claims of voter fraud and board awards because it serves them to do so.

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