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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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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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 my Mayo Cop. |
| 0:07.0 | This is my Mayo Coppa. |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, baby, don't lie for me. |
| 0:12.0 | If I tell you my story, don't cry for me. |
| 0:15.0 | I did my time that's fun by me. |
| 0:17.0 | This is my mea co-bo. This is Michael Mayor Coppa. |
| 0:26.6 | This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayacolpa Week in Review. Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, |
| 0:31.6 | addressing a nation battered by a pandemic and violent insurrection with a call for unity. |
| 0:36.6 | We must end this on Civil war that pits red against blue. |
| 0:40.9 | We've learned again that democracy is precious. |
| 0:45.6 | Democracy is fragile. |
| 0:47.9 | And at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. |
| 0:55.7 | On one hand, I can remember the 2016 inauguration like it happened yesterday. |
| 1:01.2 | How Trump's American Carnage speech written by then chief strategist Steve Bannon |
| 1:05.7 | set an ominous tone from the very beginning. |
| 1:08.4 | This American Carnage stops right here and stops right now. |
| 1:17.0 | Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered |
| 1:24.2 | like tombstones across the landscape and the crime and the gangs and the drugs |
| 1:30.7 | that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country. |
| 1:35.4 | We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries. |
| 1:40.6 | I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down. |
| 1:50.1 | Then came the first big lie about crowd size. It seemed so stupid and insignificant until you look back on what was truly happening. |
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