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Mea Culpa

It’s a Political Pandemonium! + A Conversation with Jennifer Taub

Mea Culpa

MeidasTouch Network

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Jennifer Taub, a legal scholar, advocate, author of “Big Dirty Money”, and expert witness before Congress on banking law. As the Trump administration moves to defund universities over campus protests, defies Supreme Court orders, and escalates support for mass deportations, Taub breaks down the growing abuse of executive power. We explore how Trump is weaponizing federal agencies to silence dissent, override judicial authority, and punish political opponents. With due process hanging by a thread and civil liberties under attack, we examine how to protect ourselves, and the nation, from the rise of authoritarianism. Thanks to our sponsors: Graza: Take your food to the next level with Graza Olive Oil. Visit https://graza.co/COHEN and use promo code COHEN  today for 10% off of TRIO! DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan by texting COHEN to 64000 Shopify: Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at: https://shopify.com/COHEN Subscribe to Michael's NEW Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMichaelCohenShow Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalBeatdown Add the Mea Culpa podcast feed: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen Add the Political Beatdown podcast feed: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is my Mayor Coppa.

0:03.0

This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the one and only May Mayor Culper podcast right here on the Mighty Midas Touch Network.

0:23.9

So look for all future episodes of our show behind the Blue Banner icon, and I'm truly thankful that you're here.

0:30.0

But now for the news.

0:31.7

Look, let me ask you a question.

0:34.2

What happens?

0:35.4

I mean, what happens when the guardrails of democracy only exist if the driver

0:41.1

chooses not to mow them down? What happens when the so-called leader of the free world

0:47.4

treats the Constitution like a buffet menu? Take the parts he likes, toss the rest in the trash, and light it on fire for good measure.

0:57.0

Well, my friends, we're living that nightmare in real time. And the name of the wrecking ball? Yeah, it's Donald J. Trump.

1:05.4

Now look, I've seen the guy up close. I worked for him. I defended him. I lied for him. And let me be crystal clear.

1:13.3

This man doesn't want to be president. No, he wants to be king. And not metaphorically speaking either.

1:20.9

And not as a joke. I mean robes, gold trim, and absolute power. He believes laws are for the little people, peasants,

1:31.0

as he calls them behind closed doors. And right now, with a spineless Congress, a bought and paid

1:37.5

for Supreme Court and a network of fascist fanboys egging him on, he's getting dangerously close to getting his crown.

1:46.3

I mean, in just a few short weeks of Trump 2.0, we've watched him declare war on the First

1:52.9

Amendment. And you don't have to be a Harvard constitutional law professor to know that

1:58.7

punishing free speech is un-American and yet here he is

2:03.3

threatening to yank federal funding from colleges like Harvard and Columbia just because he

2:09.9

doesn't like the protests happening on campus protests mind you those are protected by the

2:17.0

very First Amendment that he swore to uphold.

2:20.3

But in Trump's America, the law doesn't mean what it says.

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