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