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

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Source: MEDIAite

Jan 17th, 2026, 6:57 pm


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.

MeidasTouch has turned into one of the bigger anti-MAGA media companies around. It has 5.84 million subscribers on YouTube and its main podcast is routinely ranked among the top 50 shows on Spotify’s charts.

Cohen co-hosted his Political Beatdown show with MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas. The pair just posted their latest Beatdown episode on January 15, where they reacted to “Trump’s psychotic morning rant on Truth Social where he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against the people of Minnesota,” according to the show’s description. That show pulled in a few hundred thousand viewers on YouTube for each episode.

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

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Programming note: MeidasTouch Network will no longer be producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen.

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Programming note: MeidasTouch Network will no longer be producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen.
4:15 PM · Jan 17, 2026

[Cattledog]

1. Cohen's always been 2 faced.

He'll be kissing Trump's ass again in no time.

[DownriverDem]

2. MeidasTouch

is the best.

[Bengus81]

3. Wanting to be Trump's fix it guy AGAIN Cohen? WTF?

Who the FUCK can you trust anymore?

[Jughead]

4. Cohen must have had a....

Island visit or two?

[Scrivener7]

5. And he's suddenly calling him "President Trump" instead of "Trump" again. Wonder how much he

was paid, or what the threat was.

Creep.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

6. He's gotta be neck deep in the Epstein files IMO.

I could be wrong however.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Thank you so much for posting this...it's been driving me crazy

all day. I even Googled, "When and where did Michael Cohen say, "So what?". I remember it clearly since it pissed me off so much. His whole attitude was displayed in those 2 words and it still pisses me off.

Keith Edwards did a podcast today about this. He proudly said he never trusted Cohen as well as a ton of other GOP liars who switch sides every other minute.

?si=XJqbVj_cfoZySpD6

[Earth Bound Misfit]

17. You're welcome.

Here's what I found:

Michael Cohen famously said, "Says who?" during a televised CNN interview on August 17, 2016, with anchor Brianna Keilar, challenging her assertion that Donald Trump's campaign was struggling in the polls, sparking a viral moment during the 2016 election cycle.

&t=7s

[BigmanPigman]

18. THAT'S IT!!!!!!

That is the one I was thinking about. Thank you so much. I didn't imagine it after all.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

19. You're very welcome!

BTW love your username, I also took mine from a Pink Floyd lyric.

[ificandream]

7. Cohen has replied on Substack

Link: https://therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/surviving-the-smear-cycle

So I am taking a step that is both necessary and bold. On Friday, I reached out to Congressmen Comer (R) and Garcia (D) of the House Oversight Committee to request guidance on submitting a sworn Declaration to Congress, under penalty of perjury, reaffirming everything I have consistently told you for years. I have also asked that it be read into the official record. They appear to be in agreement and will be contacting me this upcoming week.

I do not make this decision lightly. I was once charged with a 1001 violation. I know exactly what perjury means. I know where it leads. And after speaking openly about the trauma of prison and the PTSD that followed me home, I am doing this anyway; to put an end to lies that refuse to die.

Some have claimed that my Friday post was motivated by a desire for a pardon. Let me be honest. Of course I would welcome the erasure of a felony conviction. Who wouldn’t? But the request I have before the White House is far larger than me. Alongside my longtime friend Jesse Jackson Jr., with whom I co-authored a proposed executive order, I am seeking the emancipation of the stigma and lifelong burden of federal felony convictions for those who have completed their non-violent sentences. This would impact 70 million Americans; seventy, including one of the loudest individuals now attacking me.

[Bengus81]

13. So...he want's a Trump pardon? BTW,why are his vids still on MTN?

[Grins]

8. "he claimed prosecutors "pressured" him..."

How??? And with what?

With what could they have possibly “pressured” him? Send him back to prison? Charge him with something ass-pulled?

This reeks of something…

[WiVoter]

20. Yes It Does

I can't put my finger on it, but something seems off.

[Maeve]

9. Cohen has always been a weasel looking out for his own skin. That's just reality

And he has to feel there is a target on his back with tsf going after enemies the way he's doing now. I'm not going to condemn him for being who he is. It's a scary time.
Altho speaking out at all has probably made him more of a target.

[delisen]

10. Trump's ultimate Evil Ace in the Hole is ability to pardon all VIOLENT federal prisoners

Would he do it? I think it depends upon how great is his dislike of, and contempt for Americans and how quickly his dementia progresses.

As for Michael Cohen, he remains enmeshed with Trump and will ultimately do what he deems best for Michael Cohen-even if it means giving Trump an advantage over our country and democracy.

I think Meidas dropping him is both justified and wise.

[twodogsbarking]

11. They wanted him to tell the truth and the truth was damning to Trump. Sure he was coerced.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. Amoral lawyer is an amoral lawyer.

Surprise!

[mdbl]

14. I guess he figured that this country won't be able to counter the fascist takeover soooo...

if he can't beatdown em, join em.

[PurgedVoter]

15. Consider what his job was, and now ask yourself if he did coverup for Epstein related offences.

Seems like the odds are extraordinarily high that he helped Krasnov cover up pedophilia crimes and realized that that wasn't a good look since exposing Krasnov on these issues would be a two edged sharp pointy thing that pointed back at him. Now that these questions are being asked, he probably wants to figure out how to survive this and is wondering how to communicate to Krasnov that if it gets bad and Krasnov doesn't help, things could go very south very fast.