Inside the Matt Gaetz Sex Trafficking Investigation + A Conversation With Matt Taibbi
THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE
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4.8 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Mea Culpa examines the bizarre and sleazy sex trafficking investigation into Congressman Matt Gaetz. Michael remembers his own history with Gaetz and how the Florida rep taunted him and threatened his family before testifying in front of the House Select Committee. The Gaetz story is just developing and promises to be a doozy. Finally, Matt Taibbi joins Mea Culpa to dish on the news of the day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Wiley. And I'm Soie Ball. And we're here to tell you about a brand new podcast, Digit. |
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| 0:38.3 | Oh, baby, don't lie for me. If I tell you my story, don't cry for me. |
| 0:44.4 | I did my time that's fun by me. |
| 0:46.7 | This is my Mayor Coppa. |
| 0:49.9 | This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayacopa podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, folks, there's nothing like a creepy sex scandal to puncture the sanctimonious bubble of a rising conservative star. |
| 1:01.7 | Congressman Matt Getz, who would murder his own mother to appear on television, |
| 1:06.4 | has most recently been making the conservative cable rounds to defend himself against allegations |
| 1:11.5 | that he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him. |
| 1:17.4 | The Department of Justice is investigating the Republican Congressman Matt Gates of Florida |
| 1:21.6 | for a possible sexual relation with a 17-year-old. That reporting from the New York Times just this hour, |
| 1:28.1 | citing three people who claim he also paid for her to travel with him, which violates |
| 1:33.7 | federal sex trafficking laws. A variety of federal statutes makes it illegal to induce someone |
| 1:39.3 | under the age of 18, to travel over state lines, to engage in sex in exchange for money or something of value. |
| 1:47.6 | The Justice Department regularly prosecutes such cases, and offenders often receive severe sentences. |
| 1:54.6 | The investigation has been running for several months, and ironically, was open during the |
| 1:59.5 | final days of the Trump administration under former |
| 2:02.4 | attorney yeah former attorney general William Barr I only know what I've read in the new |
| 2:07.9 | York times I can say that actually you and I went to dinner about two years ago your wife was |
| 2:13.8 | there and I brought a friend of mine you you'll remember her. And she was actually threatened |
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