Trump Derangement Syndrome + A Conversation With Rosie O’Donnell

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

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Politics, News

4.8 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In episode one of Michael Cohen's Mea Culpa podcast, he begins with an overview of the series and diagnoses the virulent and dangerous Trump Derangement Syndrome. His first guest is Rosie O'Donnell, who, for nearly a decade, was the recipient of disgusting attacks and abuse from the President, some of it directed by Cohen himself. After losing his soul and perhaps his mind within the Trump inner circle, Cohen finds himself cast out and arrested by the FBI and eventually sentenced to three years in prison. Feeling abandoned and utterly alone, Cohen hits bottom at FCI Otisville; believing his life is over. Then, to his surprise, six months after reporting to custody he receives a letter from Rosie the day the President is impeached. Find out what happens next on the season premiere of Mea Culpa!

Also, make sure to check out Mea Culpa: The Election Essays for the definitive political document of 2020. Fifteen chapters of raw and honest political writings on Donald Trump from the man w...

In episode one of Michael Cohen's Mea Culpa podcast, he begins with an overview of the series and diagnoses the virulent and dangerous Trump Derangement Syndrome. His first guest is Rosie O'Donnell, who, for nearly a decade, was the recipient of disgusting attacks and abuse from the President, some of it directed by Cohen himself. After losing his soul and perhaps his mind within the Trump inner circle, Cohen finds himself cast out and arrested by the FBI and eventually sentenced to three years in prison. Feeling abandoned and utterly alone, Cohen hits bottom at FCI Otisville; believing his life is over. Then, to his surprise, six months after reporting to custody he receives a letter from Rosie the day the President is impeached. Find out what happens next on the season premiere of Mea Culpa! Also, make sure to check out Mea Culpa: The Election Essays for the definitive political document of 2020. Fifteen chapters of raw and honest political writings on Donald Trump from the man who knows him best. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M5VKQ6T/ For cool Mea Culpa gear, check out meaculpapodcast.com/merch

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Cohen, and you're listening to Maya Culper podcast.
0:12.1	I'm thinking about where I was when the first plane hit the towers and where I was later when they began to fall.
0:24.6	Oh my God. So both powers are now. It seemed impossible, how something so permanent could so quickly cease to exist.
0:29.6	I'm thinking about the fear that I felt from my family, for my friends, for the city and country that I love.
0:36.6	Then the uncertainty and terror of those days and
0:39.4	first few months that followed. The creeping dread of another attack always looming. Then I project
0:45.3	myself forward through the years, then decades, through time and space itself, always wondering
0:51.0	how the choices I made, some random, others deliberate, led me to Donald J. Trump.
0:57.0	Now the fear has come back home to roost in the worst possible way.
1:01.0	The country seems on the verge of coming apart. The center will not hold.
1:06.0	Almost 200,000 people dead.
1:08.0	I wanted to always play it down.
1:12.4	I still like playing it down.
1:16.3	The economy in ruins are cities royal with violence.
1:17.9	I am the least racist person.
1:23.2	For 11 years, I was President Donald J. Trump's personal attorney and fixer.
1:28.6	If you've already read my book, Disloyal, you'll know that I wasn't a lawyer in any conventional sense of the word. I didn't try cases in court. Rather, I made his problems go away. I did the real
1:35.9	dirty work. The sex scandals and payoffs, the shady business deals and shakedowns. I smeared his
1:41.9	opponents in the press, and I lied for him to those very same reporters.
1:46.7	I was his gangster in a suit, modeling myself after his mentor, the Prince of Darkness himself,
1:52.6	Roy Cohn.
1:53.2	Superbuilder Donald Trump has said, if you need somebody to get vicious, hire Roy Cohn.
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