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Mea Culpa

No Joy For Comey and Friends + A Conversation with Joy Reid

Mea Culpa

Michael Cohen

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Joy Reid, a longtime political commentator, New York Times bestselling author, and host of The Joy Reid Show. We unpack the FBI raid of John Bolton’s home and office and what it signals for other Trump critics. We also analyze how Trump’s embrace of Russia is pushing the U.S. closer to authoritarianism. As GOP leadership in Texas dismantles voting rights, Joy and I discuss how the DNC can and should respond. Finally, we break down how Gavin Newsom’s sharp trolling of Trump is landing with the president and why humor and ridicule can be powerful tools against creeping dictatorship. Thanks to our sponsors: Shopify: Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at: shopify.com/COHEN Hims: Start your free online visit today at Hims.com/COHEN Subscribe to Michael's Substack: https://therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/ Subscribe to Michael's 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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0:24.0

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0:29.7

This is my Mayor-Cobo!

0:33.8

Oh, baby, don't lie for me. If I tell you my story, don't cry for me.

0:39.2

I did my time that's fun by me.

0:41.5

This is my favorite.

0:43.6

This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the one and only Mayacopa podcast right

0:51.2

here on the Mighty Midas Touch Network.

0:53.6

So look for all future episodes of our show behind the Blue Banner icon.

0:57.3

And I'm truly thankful that you're here.

0:59.1

But now for the news.

1:00.6

Look, power in the wrong hands rarely announces itself with a roar.

1:05.0

More often, it seeps quietly into the machinery of government,

1:09.1

warping the law, reshaping institutions, and turning

1:12.4

tools of justice into weapons of control.

1:16.4

In Trump's second term, that slow corrosion has accelerated.

1:21.2

And what once looked like exaggeration or political theater is now hardened into policy.

1:28.0

And the consequences aren't playing out across the country in ways that should worry every single American.

1:35.0

So, for example, take the recent FBI raid of John Bolton's home in office.

1:39.7

Bolton is no ally of mine.

1:41.4

I don't like him at all.

1:43.2

I know his hawkish brand of politics. But this isn't

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