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THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Inside the NY Judge’s Ruling That Will Bankrupt Donald Trump + A Conversation with Tara Setmayer

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes back one of our favorite people from the Lincoln Project, Tara Setmayer. She’s a former CNN political commentator, a contributor to ABC News, and a former GOP Communications Director on Capitol Hill. Setmayer has appeared on ABC's The View, ABC's Good Morning America, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. She was named a Harvard Institute of Politics Spring 2020 Resident Fellow. Also in 2020, she joined The Lincoln Project as a senior advisor. Setmayer hosts the live show "The Breakdown" alongside co-founder Rick Wilson, on the organization's streaming channel, LPTV. She’s also a fierce critic of the ongoing MAGA agenda and what she views as the GOP’s shameful inability to move beyond its toxic politics. She joins me today as we celebrate the ruling against Donald Trump by Judge Engoron. 

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0:00.0

This is my maya-a-ha-ha-a-com.

0:09.0

This is Michael, boy.

0:10.0

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,

0:20.0

oh, but. This is Michael Mayor Cope.

0:26.5

This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Culp a podcast.

0:32.7

It was a big day for yours truly yesterday, as Donald Trump's lies and bullshit finally met a dead end in the New York courtroom of Judge Arthur and Goran, who ruled that

0:39.2

Trump and his company be held liable for fraud for inflating his net worth in order to deceive

0:45.7

banks and insurers, resolving one of the key claims in the civil fraud lawsuit brought

0:51.7

by the New York State Attorney General just days before a trial is set

0:56.0

to start. Judge and Goran, in a blistering and angry ruling, rejected outright Trump's request

1:03.6

for a range of pretrial victories, calling his arguments rehashed and erroneous.

1:17.3

Judge and Goran's ruling on Monday is also complete rejection of Trump's bullshit arguments that he didn't inflate the values of his golf courses, his hotels, homes, Mar-a-Lago,

1:23.9

and Seven Springs on his financial statements. And I quote, in defendant's world, rent regulated

1:31.7

apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments. Restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted

1:39.4

land. Restrictions can evaporate into thin air. A disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another

1:47.7

party exonerates the other party's lies, the judge wrote in the decision. Instead,

1:54.3

the judge gave a major victory to Attorney General Letitia James, immediately revoking Trump's

2:00.8

license to do business in the state of

2:03.2

New York.

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