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Mea Culpa

Roy Cohn’s Cousin Says WAKE UP!! + A Conversation with Dave Marcus

Mea Culpa

Michael Cohen

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Dave Marcus, the infamous Roy Cohn’s cousin, a journalist and author who specializes in education, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning former diplomatic correspondent for the Boston Globe. With reporting experience across Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, Marcus brings a global lens to Trump’s authoritarian playbook. We dig into the Epstein files and how Trump is weaponizing secrecy around Epstein’s crimes, his dangerous coziness with Putin, and his push to rebrand the Pentagon into a “Department of War.” We also break down GOP hypocrisy on vaccines, RFK Jr.’s disastrous Senate hearing, and the economic chaos Trump is fueling with his attacks on the Federal Reserve. From authoritarian summits abroad to loyalty tests at home, this episode exposes how Trump manipulates national attention while dismantling democracy. Thanks to our sponsors: Hims: Start your free online visit today at https://Hims.com/COHEN Shopify: Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at: https://shopify.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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0:29.7

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 May a Culper podcast, right

0:51.5

here on the Mighty Midas Touch Network.

0:54.0

So look for all future episodes of our show

0:56.1

behind the Blue Banner icon. And I'm truly thankful that you hear as we've now surpassed

1:01.5

500 million downloads. But now for today's crazy. Meanwhile, Trump doesn't lie in the ordinary

1:08.0

sense. Let me be clear about that. Ordinary lies, well,

1:11.9

they're clumsy, transparent, and eventually they run headlong into a brick wall of reality.

1:18.9

Trump lies like a mob boss running a protection racket. If you question him, you're the problem.

1:25.8

If you get hurt, it's your fault. And if you demand the

1:29.2

truth, you branded a traitor. Look, let's take the Epstein files. Victims, they came forward.

1:36.9

Testimony was sworn. Flight logs documented the parade of billionaires, politicians, and

1:43.4

celebrities climbing aboard the Lolita Express.

1:47.0

And Trump's response? He calls it a democratic hoax, as if the rape of teenage children is just another CNN headline cooked up in a back room with Adam Schiff.

2:00.0

I mean, it's grotesque, it's cruel, and it's classic Trump.

2:04.6

His instinct is always the same.

2:07.6

Discredit the accuser, deny the evidence, and protect the powerful.

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