Truth Be Damned! + A Conversation With Maria Cardona

Mea Culpa

MeidasTouch Network

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Maria Cardona, Democratic strategist, CNN commentator, Principal at the Dewey Square Group, and founder of Latinovations. We unpack the chaos surrounding Trump’s administration this week. From mass deportations, including U.S. citizens and children, to the administration’s open defiance of the Supreme Court, we examine how due process is being shredded in real time. We also break down the economic fallout of Trump’s reckless tariffs, his crumbling international reputation, and the media’s complicity in normalizing authoritarian behavior. With misinformation spreading from the White House podium and a growing disinformation echo chamber, Maria and I make the case for why now, more than ever, Americans must speak up, show up, and vote. Thanks to our sponsors: Shopify: Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at: https://shopify.com/COHEN Graza: Take your food to the next level with Graza Olive Oil. Visit https://graza.co/COHEN and use promo code COHEN today for 10% off of TRIO! Subscribe to Michael's NEW 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 Mayo Coppa.
0:03.0	This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the one and only Mayor Culp the podcast right here
0:21.4	on the Mighty Midas Touch Network. So look for all future episodes of our show behind the Blue
0:26.6	Banner icon, and I'm truly thankful that you're here because the chaos is not stopping.
0:32.0	But now for today's news. Look, let me ask you something. How the hell there's a guy
0:37.1	polling underwater on every major issue
0:40.0	still have over half of Republican voters saying that they trust him to lead this country?
0:46.7	I mean, yeah, you heard that right. According to a new CNN poll, 55% of Republicans and
0:53.8	right-leaning independ independence still believe in this
0:57.2	orange con artist as if he were Moses parting the Red Sea but instead of delivering
1:03.1	salvation he's bringing us economic collapse geopolitical humiliation and a moral
1:09.8	rot that's infecting every corner of our political system.
1:13.6	Look, my friends, Trump's polling is in the toilet.
1:17.6	He's underwater on the economy.
1:19.6	He's underwater on foreign policy, on immigration, on national security.
1:24.6	Fuck, you name it. He's underwater. And Americans don't believe he's honest.
1:29.5	They don't trust his temperament and they damn sure don't want four more years of this chaos.
1:35.3	But Maga World, they don't care. They truly don't give a shit. They have traded the Constitution
1:41.6	for a cult of personality.
1:45.0	I mean, truth doesn't matter.
1:46.0	Facts don't matter.
1:48.0	Only the gospel according to Donald matters, even when that gospel changes day to day or tweet by tweet.
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