Who Is Michael Cohen? | PBD #728
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Bet-David sits down with Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to discuss his claim that New York prosecutors Letitia James and Alvin Bragg pressured and coerced his testimony against Trump, the fallout from MeidasTouch cutting ties with him after those claims, the political and legal reactions to his Substack statements, his perspective on his role in the Trump civil fraud and “hush money” cases, and the broader implications of his shifting stance toward Trump and prosecutors.
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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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| 0:00.0 | The words the media should be using to describe Mr. Trump are generous, kind, honest, and genuine. He was the ultimate loyalist. It's not a question of flip. It's a question of answering questions. You flip, though. It's not a flip. Michael. You flip. You flip. You flip. You flip. You flip. The man who once said he'd take a bullet for Donald Trump. The only time I would not, if he's the one that was pulling the trigger. |
| 0:24.2 | I pled guilty. negatively about the president. The man who once said he'd take a bullet for Donald Trump. |
| 0:21.1 | The only time I would not, if he's the one that was pulling the trigger. |
| 0:24.2 | I pled guilty in federal court to felonies for the benefit of individual number one. |
| 0:30.3 | And for the record, individual number one is President Donald J. Trump. |
| 0:35.8 | Ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen says New York prosecutors pressured him to target President |
| 0:39.9 | Trump. |
| 0:40.3 | I would never have testified. |
| 0:42.4 | I didn't want to. |
| 0:43.6 | And you've been canceled now by both sides. |
| 0:45.3 | They started getting 20,000 people telling them, if Michael Cohen remains on the network, |
| 0:52.0 | we're unsubscribing. |
| 0:53.4 | My audience will say, are you back in his |
| 0:55.9 | camp? Are you bending the knee? I almost can't say anything. You chose that job, that comes |
| 1:01.4 | with the territory. So there's probably two communities watching the saying, why would Michael |
| 1:07.4 | Cohen go on the PBD podcast? And number two, why would we have Michael Cohen on the |
| 1:11.4 | podcast today? After he just got fired by Midas Touch, they cut his show. And we started talking. |
| 1:18.1 | We've been talking for about almost two years because I wanted to get him on to talk about some of the |
| 1:21.6 | decisions that he made. And it was very uncomfortable in certain moments, very awkward in certain |
| 1:26.8 | moments, but he was very open. |
| 1:29.4 | He said some things that I did not think he was going to say. |
| 1:32.2 | I asked him a question. |
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