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UTUSN

(77,129 posts)
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 12:01 AM Sunday

Michael COHEN posted felt coerced to testify against KRASNOV. MeidasTouch cut ties with him within hours.

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https://www.mediaite.com/media/progressive-meidastouch-network-drops-michael-cohens-podcasts-after-claiming-he-felt-coerced-to-testify-against-trump/

Progressive MeidasTouch Network Drops Michael Cohen’s Podcasts After Claiming He ‘Felt Coerced’ to Testify Against Trump

Progressive media company MeidasTouch Network announced it was cutting ties with Michael Cohen on Saturday, hours after he claimed prosecutors “pressured” him to mold his testimony to bolster a political witch hunt against President Donald Trump.

“Programming note: MeidasTouch Network will no longer by producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen,” the left-leaning outlet posted on X. ....

Cohen added the purpose of his article was not “to defend Donald Trump, nor to relitigate his conduct.” ....

“You may reasonably ask why I am speaking out now. The answer is simple,” Cohen wrote. “I have witnessed firsthand the damage done when prosecutors pick their target first and then seek evidence to fit a predetermined narrative.” ....

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Michael COHEN posted felt coerced to testify against KRASNOV. MeidasTouch cut ties with him within hours. (Original Post) UTUSN Sunday OP
Is he bucking for a pardon too? Hassin Bin Sober Sunday #1
Song, "Do I Hear a UTUSN Sunday #3
the person with the most to win: Tetrachloride Sunday #2
Prosecutors made him to all those media appearances too? SamuelTheThird Sunday #4
Never trusted the guy dweller Sunday #5
I don't like where this weathervane's pointing 0rganism Sunday #6
He was the fixer for too many of Trumps affairs for many many years. mackdaddy Sunday #7
Wow, gee i wonder Figarosmom Sunday #8
We live is a polarized society Pototan Sunday #9
Once a .......always a...... JMCKUSICK Sunday #10
Jamoke? BidenRocks Sunday #11
At best, more like so many anti-trumpers who want to get near his shitty diaper again. JMCKUSICK Sunday #12
Once a POS choie Sunday #13
Suspicions confirmed. Heard him talking a couple of weeks ago, and thought, "Geesh, he allegorical oracle Sunday #14
Even this dumbass saw the writting on the wall. czarjak Sunday #15
This is very depressing SleeplessinSoCal Yesterday #16

dweller

(27,941 posts)
5. Never trusted the guy
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 12:27 AM
Sunday

Just a gut feeling … he worked for the Pisswig willingly for years .
Sure he was tossed under the bus , doesn’t make him more credible .

Glad I didn’t waste time listening to him

edit to add : he always had a mafiosi vibe


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0rganism

(25,491 posts)
6. I don't like where this weathervane's pointing
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 12:47 AM
Sunday

How many fictions will this guy invent in the press and in the courts to curry favor with F47? My hunch is "as many as he can". And struggling networks eager to score points with F47 will amplify his tales. He just burned his new allies real hot, in the process becoming a major obstacle for the left generally and the Democratic party particularly.

Ugly enough in itself, uglier still for what it portends: Michael Cohen saw something up ahead that spooked him good. Maybe he's wrong, I sure hope he is, but it seems like he's betting on F47's long-term success and a painful punishment if he's still a political enemy. And now he'll throw the weight of his obsequious fictional prowess behind the outcome he fears so as to spare himself the worst of the consequences, everyone else be damned.

mackdaddy

(1,951 posts)
7. He was the fixer for too many of Trumps affairs for many many years.
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 01:01 AM
Sunday

I gave him the benefit of the doubt for some of his break with Trump and Bill Barr throwing him in solitary for talking.

But the time he spent fixing Trump's legal problems with hush money and all of the actual boiler plate NDA forms for women Trump had affairs with, he never talked about. Some of this could still be covered under attorney-client privilege but he basically said
Trump would not do underage women which never rang true. With all of the teen 'beauty' pageants he ran I never believed that.

He got pretty weird when Tara Palmieri pressed him on the Katy Johnson suits which would have been during his 'fixer' time.

We will see where all of this goes.

Pototan

(3,020 posts)
9. We live is a polarized society
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 02:31 AM
Sunday

and when both sides distrust you and neither side likes you, you're fucked.

Who's going to carry your podcast or listen to you now, Michael?

JMCKUSICK

(5,238 posts)
12. At best, more like so many anti-trumpers who want to get near his shitty diaper again.
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 02:53 AM
Sunday

Sorry for the visual

allegorical oracle

(6,247 posts)
14. Suspicions confirmed. Heard him talking a couple of weeks ago, and thought, "Geesh, he
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 09:57 AM
Sunday

sounds as if he wants back into trump's good graces." Never totally trusted all his anti-Trump bluster, 'tho.

czarjak

(13,473 posts)
15. Even this dumbass saw the writting on the wall.
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 10:12 AM
Sunday

Defending The Donald has consequences. Or, should.
Go back to the first time he was interviewed. When pressured about Trump's treatment of women, all he had was "Says who?" "Says who?"
Ever listen to the tapes of him threatening people on Trump's behalf?
Besides, he was for him before he was against him. So, F-Him sideways.

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,374 posts)
16. This is very depressing
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 07:16 AM
Yesterday

Meidas Touch dropped him. He seemed very tight with Ben Meiselas. It's just bizarre given the total meltdown trump is having.

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