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The Daily Beast Podcast

Michael Cohen: I Am Certain That Donald Trump Is Psychotic Right Now

The Daily Beast Podcast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is in deep shit. So deep, that he finally admitted to leaving the White House at the end of the month. And his supporters? Well, some would say Wedesnday’s riot in D.C., when his supporters-turned-domestic-terrorists defaced the Capitol, inspired an “oh-fuck” moment. As for what is going through the president’s head right now, co-hosts Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast turned to the man who spent a good deal of time with Trump to find out. Michael Cohen, author of Disloyal and host of the Mea Culpa podcast, came on the latest episode of The New Abnormal to chat about the chaos and what Trump’s next moves are. Needless to say, he did not censor himself in the slightest. “I am certain that Donald Trump is psychotic right now,” he says, adding that he fully believes a coup was the president's goal all along. “Donald Trump would rather burn down the White House, then turn over the keys.” At the least, Trump and his enablers on the Hill encouraged the events that went down and Cohen thinks they should “pay.” Yes, he was someone who encouraged him, but it’s different, he says. “I did work for him. And what did I do? I paid $130,000, you know, to keep quiet. The fact that the president got his pecker pulled by a porn star, seriously? And you want to compare that to the seditious acts of these proud boys, of the Wolverine Watchmen and all these other crazy groups? You can’t compare the two.” Then, James Carville joins and gives an ultimatum to the Biden administration: “If they're not going to look at [Trump’s crimes], I'm going to resign from the Democratic party,” he says. “If it's not an impeachable offense to encourage a mob, to interfere with a constitutionally mandated congressional procedure, then there's nothing impeachable.” Plus, Rick breaks down Wednesday's seditious acts, Josh Hawley gets inducted into the Fuck that Guy Hall of Fame, and he and Molly speculate if anyone actually would vote to keep Ted Cruz in the Senate. And! Look out for a Trump News Network! Coming soon for just $4.99 a month! Want more? Become a Beast Inside member to enjoy a limited-run series of bonus interviews from The New Abnormal. Guests include Cory Booker, Jim Acosta, and more. Head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com to join now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.

0:09.7

I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best-selling

0:14.1

author and full-time troublemaker.

0:16.2

We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,

0:19.9

politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world

0:24.9

clear.

0:25.9

We try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and

0:31.8

other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.

0:35.5

Rick Wilson, yesterday we had a coup.

0:38.4

A little bit of a coup.

0:39.5

A wee little coup?

0:40.5

A petite coup, if you will?

0:42.4

Yes, a coup, a coup of the stupid.

0:45.3

And they got in there, they took selfies, they didn't do, weren't able to do anything.

0:51.2

Well, look, I don't want to minimize it, these people at the orders of Donald Trump and

0:57.0

at the encouragement of Donald Trump's sedition caucus inside the Senate in the House attacked

1:01.7

the legislative seat of government in this country.

1:03.9

They attacked it not for a political outcome, but to try to burn down our political system.

1:10.9

And they attacked those buildings and they attacked the people guarding those buildings.

1:16.5

And if they'd been able to find them, they would have attacked the members of Congress.

1:21.9

They came in to the Capitol grounds with things like pipe bombs and maltaught cocktails and

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