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Mea Culpa

The Theatre of Presidential Power + A Conversation with Nina Burleigh

Mea Culpa

Michael Cohen

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by journalist and best-selling author Nina Burleigh to unpack the latest Epstein document dumps and what they reveal about power, money, and protection at the highest levels. Nina is a prolific writer, from her Substack American Freakshow to her many books, including The Trump Women: Part of the Deal, which examines the women closest to Trump. We dig into how Epstein gained extraordinary access, why so many powerful figures still fear transparency, and what the documents expose about Trump’s inner circle. We also discuss the growing risk of war in Venezuela, Trump’s latest corruption schemes, and the open white nationalism poisoning the country. Thanks to our sponsors: Found: Open your FREE Found account now at https://Found.com Aura Frames: Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/COHEN Promo Code COHEN Soul: Go to https://GetSoul.com, promo code COHEN for 40% off. Don’t miss their best deal of the year! Superpower: This holiday, give your loved ones the only gift that keeps on giving — health. Go to https://superpower.com/gift to get a free $49 gift box with your gifted membership. 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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0:00.0

This is my mea cup.

0:03.0

Oh, baby, don't lie for me.

0:05.0

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

0:09.0

I did my time that's fun by me.

0:11.0

This is my fair to me.

0:14.0

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

0:24.0

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

0:30.2

And because you hear, we've now exceeded 500 million downloads to date.

0:35.0

So again, thank you.

0:37.0

But now, the news. Look, there comes a moment

0:40.6

in American politics when the theater of power stops pretending that it's a stage. When

0:46.4

the script written for civility, decorum, and national interest suddenly gets shredded. And what's left

0:53.3

is raw greed, raw ambition and raw stupidity.

0:58.0

So my friends, to the show, here we are living in it right now. For example, take Jeffrey

1:05.0

Epstein, I mean every time you think that we've seen the last ugly secret of that network, another brick falls from

1:12.3

the wall and the stink just keeps getting worse. Epstein wasn't just a predator, he was the ultimate

1:19.7

social lubricant for power, a Greece that kept the gears of wealth, politics, and corruption

1:26.9

turning in a country that likes to believe

1:29.1

in fairy tales like justice and accountability. But fairy tales died a long time ago. And the question

1:37.2

isn't just who protected him. It's who still benefits from protecting none of this that

1:43.0

happened. And then there's Steve Bannon, a man who could probably give lessons on chaos as a business model.

1:51.0

He pops up in every dark corner of the authoritarian movement like a political mold that just won't die.

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