Guys you know you are loved but you HAVE to give us more than this. Cohen might have been a mole. His betrayal is too perfectly timed to be cooincidence. You HAVE to release a clearly labeled and lengthly statement about what is going on and what happened and you need to do it NOW. The whole point was to ruin your credability and people's trust in you. YOU CANNOT LET THEM; WE NEED YOU TOO BADLY.
Give them time. I'm VERY eager to know as well, but some things have to be tied up first...I imagine. They were connected for years. Plus, Cohen is so litigious
Also he lied saying he knew nothing about the Katie Johnson situation where a young 13 year old girl accused Trump and Epstein of rape. Court documents found by Ellie Leonard show that cohen tried to get a deal with the Feds by offering up information about it. All while claiming he never even heard anything about Epstein. It appears that he may have been involved with the threatening of the girl who later dropped her criminal case because the threats were so terrifying. He may have paid her family off also.
Yes first they threaten then they say “but if you do what you’re told will give you all this money all you have to do is go away and you will be safe and rich”
The issue here is not your subtle smearing of the victims, by stating they were probably paid off. You wrote that several times throughout the moment section.
What a terrible cold thing to write. Only a male would write just that and nothing else.
Of course Rowan, I agree. The whole reason Mideas has a following is because we were sick of the news media covering up, placating, and kowtowing to financial interests.
Author and concentration camp survivor Elie Weisel wrote
silence = complicity.
The evidence is Ben's three postings put out and no reporting on what should've been the biggest news story that could topple Trump:
Transcriber and author Ellie Leonard has been diligently combing through the Epstein files, along with her subscribers. She found a letter
written by MC's attorneys to the SDNY asking for a article 35, because MC had info on Trump and Epstein.
This should have been breaking news!
Because between that letter and all the other info coming out about MC's behavior, it put Mideas into a position of conflict of interest. Mideas did the right thing once Wajahat Ali found out that MC was attacking Letia James and Bragg, and notified Lev Parnas who informed Ben. FYI, this is all available on Waj and Lev's substack and utube.
Perhaps the lesson learned here is that we are very much in a war. You cannot fight a war alone. We just saw this last year in France when all the democratic groups (far more than we have), banded together to fight against Marie Le Pen.
So the lesson Mideas should glean from this, aside from a better vetting procedure of those in the network, is to ask the real investigative journalists, and those with important contacts, to join the Mideas network; Wajahat Ali, Zev Shalev, Lev Parnes, and Ellie Leonard.
Yep! Exactly! So disappointing. And for those saying give them time - if MT wasn't smart enough to cover their ass from this happening when they invited the devil in, then they aren't as smart as we give them credit for.
MeidasTouch is no victim. Not sure how you come to that conclusion. I tried watching mea culpa and another Michael Cohen broadcast on MT, and I couldn’t stomach it. Michael Cohen was so obvious and I always thought to myself, why does Meidas keep him on? Some people are better judges of character than others.
Why would their credibility be affected? Honest question. Why? They got rid of him. That's proof enough that they know now what Michael Cohen has done and that he truly wasn't a changed man. Why does MTN have to get into details? Because people are nosey? Is that it? Honest question. We can infer that the business relationship was severed due to Michael Cohen's lies and the fact that he's hiding something about tje Epstein files. IT IS CLEAR. Enough already with wanting MTN to stay on this topic a minute longer. Be satisfied with the fact that they severed their relationship with him fully. You will not get more than this. If you want more go to Michael himself and ask him directly if you dare. Leave it alone already. And if you keep staying unsatisfied move on. Unsubscribe from MTN and don't comment again. This is my opinion. Let. It. Go. It's done. Finito. Let's not obsess over this any longer.
Exactly…people have a bad habit of blaming like it was intentional and it wasn’t…They forget that sometimes they forget the mistakes they’ve made in life but no one else is allowed to…
Exactly. Keith Edward on YouTube put out a video talking about Michael Cohen. And thanking MTN for getting rid of him. People just love the drama of it all. They love to instigate and add fuel to the fire 🔥. It's so unbecoming.
MTN always talking about having “the receipts “. Well, do they them on this? Maybe that’s why some people are not rushing to judgment on the severing of ties. Maybe I missed them. If so, point me towards them
Girl please. Don't make me laugh. Cohen is and as always been a shady character. He is a sociopath. He's a talented writer, I'll give him that. But is also makes him an expert bull shitter. He's only out to save his hide. If you must know more... 😮💨🙄😒 go to Wajahat Ali's Substack page and you'll find a Live he did about this. You should get your answers. Fuethermore you can always go to Keith Edward's channel on YouTube and you'll learn. Also on MTN bulletin reports with Ron. There you can learn. It's so easy to research yet people continually prefer to wag their tongues in dissent and accusations instead of doing research. The Meiselas brothers don't owe us an explanation because it is VERY clear why they severed ties with him. They were duped by him as many of us were. Nobody is perfect. The important thing here is that they got rid of him. In my opinion, that speaks of their good integrity. Now let's move on. Thank you.
Thanks for the tip on Wajahat Ali, I'll go find his live on substack and give it a listen.
I listened to a Lev Parnas broadcast however I never fully trust him either. The reason is when Jack Smith testified to the Senate behind closed doors but the released video and the transcript has Jack Smith saying Lev Parnas lied to him. So if Jack Smith says Lev Parnas is a liar I will take that to the bank.
are you their mother? your attitude is rude. Subscribers are rightfully questioning this. Many WEREN'T duped and said so to no avail. So please desist from belittling people and trying to close the subject before it's finished. This isn't a blip. this is a very serious credibility issue. You aren't helping them by being combative and dismissive.
Totally agree with Rowan. Cohen is messy but he has been spot on as it relates to how Trump thinks and approaches situations. He's the only one that can give that insight and he has been very forthcoming. We need to stop the purity tests on every single topic. That's why Meidas needs to give more clarity to this. A video with Ben & Michael to discuss differences and part ways would be great. My first instinct is the D machine wanted him off and the Meidas growth goals are bigger than Cohen so they cut him loose. I really I hope I'm wrong.
That isn’t it at all. Michael Cohen has been lying about his affiliation with the Epstein files and many other things. His insight is not what you think it is. He has been trying to get a pardon from Trump for months and just released a Substack saying Leticia James coerced his testimony against Trump. It appears this was done in conjunction with Trump and trump released a statement simultaneously with Cohen. Cohen has never been on the side of righteous people he has been in it for himself and Trump.
I'm sure he saw what Gislaine got and wanted something for himself. He probably knows as much as she does. Maybe more. He was Drumps's fixer for many years. He was convicted of other crimes, one involving taxi medallions. Whatever that was.
I know… I know… I just think they wanted to believe Cohen had changed. I told them and many others did as well but I guess they needed physical proof before they would do anything.
He conned millions, because good people, and especially naive Americans, who have never lived in a totalitarian country, who have never faced extreme poverty or racism, usually have their guard down, and at the very minimum took democracy for granted. It's a cultural problem.
He just found out about this yesterday, so I agree, give him time.
Ben , I'm sorry to hear about the betrayal of your faith in Mr. Cohen.
Check out the video from Wajahat Ali and "It's about the Epstein Files". and this will give you a bit more information as to what happened. It was posted January 17th on his YouTube site.
Got to admit Cohen wrote well. That's the thing with a well thought out lie,( notice I didn't use the word good here,) it becomes harder to detect. Proproganda works like that, also.
With all due respect, there needs to be more than that. If it's legal stuff going on, just say that. He's been quite prominent on this network and I think a fuller explanation is needed with the full betrayal aired out!
The same reason every pro Democracy/anti trump podcast/pundit has had numerous former Trump people who appeared to have turned on him and made some effort to redeem themselves. In Cohen's case, he was the one who got trump convicted of 34 felonies, an unprecedented milestone in all the years of people chasing accountability for his decades of crimes. Now people are blaming the best pro Democracy network that has been consistently fighting back and helped get out the vote in 2020 spending millions on campaign ads before they even had a a million subscribers and zero clout in the Democratic Party. Cohen is as snake and shape shifter that changes his colors as opportunities arise.
Hilary Clinton Never: From Shakespeare: Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
A simple:
Mideas Family,
Like you we are in shock at the latest news. MC will not be in our network any more. Please be patient while we learn more about this issue, and weigh our position and courses of actions.
We told you we would be unlike legacy media, bring you the breaking news, with journalistic ethics and facts based. We respect our millions of subscribers, and will inform you of our deliberations soon.
I don't think so. They wanted his famous name to grow their enterprise. If they are so noble why do they aggressively ask for money every single post? Others don't. Cohen is the reason I never paid for a sub. Read him for a few months and it was obvious to me Cohen was still on Trump's team and was not really adding anything of value, just lots of 'poor me' about having been rightfully imprisoned. It has damaged Meidas' credibility
Thank you for telling me something I was NOT doing. I was simply asking why, because he's a former trump employee PERIOD. THAT was all I was thinking about. YOU jumped the gun.
Ben, please walk us through the beginning, middle, and end of MTN’s arrangement with Cohen — and tell us why you gave him special status in the producer hierarchy.
Very disappointing from you guys. As a paid subscriber I was used to getting tons of Cohen’s written posts pushed out from MTN each week. I didn’t care for them (he obviously used AI heavily for his pieces) and I’m glad he’s gone. But this is a major announcement and for you to be so coy about one of your most prolific contributors leaving with zero explanation is very opaque and the opposite of what I subscribe to MTN for. If you guys don’t openly address this I’m going to cut the subscription and just stick with the Bulwark.
Yes, and he'll be the first to admit it, he has made amends. If you watch his substack you will see. He does amazing concrete work for Ukrainians and for trying to help save our country.
Please stop defaming Lev Parnas. You obviously are uniformed and don't listen to him, or the excellent and ethical Rep. Jaime Raskin, who just appeared on his substack, or the investigative journalists he platforms, who have the real inside info, because of the hours, and years of research they do (Zev Shalev, Ellie leonard, Wajahat Ali). They don't just report breaking news, they have access to the insiders.
Well... about Lev Parnas.... Jack Smith in his recent closed door Testimony to the Senate Panel that was released on You Tube and a transcript, Jack Smith said Lev Parnas lied to him, so there is that.
That's all fine, but the conspicuous absence of your commentary in any DEPTH about this Michael Cohen debacle does your otherwise conscientious work no good.
Was this a little hasty? Michael was Trump’s “fixer” but I hardly think that he was the “fixer” for this entire pedophile ring. The women themselves were too frightened to come forward for many years, and even their knowledge of the scope of this dreadful thing was limited until they discovered exactly how many women had been abused. “Fixing” a Stormy Daniels problem is one thing…covering up an an international cabal of extremely rich and powerful men is entirely another. I imagine that Michael knows some things, I am guessing that these things are mostly peripheral to the enterprise( these high rollers are not going to put their reputations in the hands of a Michael Cohen..with apologies to Michael). That said…whatever he knows, whatever he heard, and whether he thinks that it is relevant or not, the time has come to tell what if anything he knows. Please don’t cut him off, encourage him to use the Meidas megaphone to expose any possible information he might have. And if there’s stuff that is so explosive that his life is in danger(do you REALLY believe that Epstein committed suicide!) he needs to quietly go to Congress and spill it. The time has come.
CE, your comment is very uniformed. No one said he knew "everything." This is much more than a pedofile ring. You need to read Canadian investigative journalist's series The Greatest Heist (Dr. Zev Shalev), over at the substack The Narativ.
There is a direct line though, from Cohen to Trump via what Cohen knows about the 2016 lawsuit filed by Katie Johnson There is no way in hell that Cohen did not know about this, and most likely, the most obvious thing is, being "the fixer," for Trump he was the one that threatened Johnson, that caused her to stop the lawsuit. It would have definitely brought down Trumps residency, because she filed this during Trump's first campaign.
Katie Johnson is a pseudonym for one of the victims..maybe she could out the fixer? Did she say it was Cohen? I am not saying that the guy is blameless,, I am saying that whatever he knows, he needs to tell. I am also not going to convict Cohen without knowing. Calling folks “uninformed” because they do not agree with you 100% is not seemly.
I imagine that she got a huge settlement and signed an NDA for the money. Why would she be motivated to expose herself to the rabid Magats and ruin her life (again). Put yourself in her position.
clearly you aren't. you have no idea. That woman was terrified in the interview I saw. why are you talking about payouts and why are other people acting as though victims getting payouts means they aren't victims? what a pile of ridiculous garbage. Maybe have a listen to Sascha Riley
You obviously don't have a clue what it's like to be raped at age 13, to make the comment you write above.
You obviously don't have a clue about MC.
What have you read, that you base your opinion on?
I have read Zev Shalev's investigative research for the past 10 years on this sex espionage case, I have read the Muller Report, and all Craig Unger's books on Trump/Russian organized crime, and those Americans involved, as well as Weiss' The Foreign Desk, Nina Burleigh,
Seth Abramson, David Kay Johnson's The Big Cheat, The Making of Donald Trump, and the astute reporting by Lev Parnas, and Wajahat Ali.
It's all there, but nothing takes the place of many hours of reading.
You do not know my life circumstances, or my history, so a gratuitous attack like the one you’ve posted is….again….unseemly. Why not let the facts emerge and speak for themselves? And are you really holding up Lev Parnas as a beacon of honesty when he is, in fact, exactly the same as Michael Cohen..a guy who got involved in some bad stuff and is trying to work his way out of it? Read critically, not just for quantity.
The lies surrounding the whole Epstein affair are huge and convoluted. If ANY individual who was in that orbit has any information that is even tangentially relevant, they should spill it now. If Michael Cohen is one of those people, then he needs to come clean. I would be very surprised if Cohen had absolutely no knowledge. I’d be equally surprised to find out that he was some sort of major”fixer”. He was on a good path with regard to his Trump involvement, if he doesn’t continue, then all his other actions will have been for nothing and his reputation repair nonexistent. Cohen was a goon for a two-bit third-tier real estate “developer”….I would be gobsmacked if the high-flyers in the Epstein world depended on him to fix their criminal issues.
This is very simple: start with reading the letter from the Epstein Files, where in 2019 his lawyers wrote to SDNY prosecutors stating that MC had info on Trump and Epstein and wanted in return an article 35 (reduction in sentence).
As Lev pointed out, MC's lawyers knew this would have to be major revelations by MC, in order to get an article 35.
So people are objecting to MC constantly telling everyone that he knew nothing, heard nothing.
with grace??? OMG, people are so naive. There is no negotiation with grace, when it comes to criminals. have we not learned anything from 12 years of trump?
What hopefully guides Meidas is the cut throat lawyering skills of a prosecutor.
MC betrayed his public and stole our money under false pretenses, and put Mideas in a conflict of interest (to say the least).
The Democrats enabled Trump. A tyrant only comes into power with a weak and feckless opposition party.
You don't only bring speeches, and lawsuits to a gun fight. And you support your public base when they've been duped. I haven't seen any apology by Mideas to their paid subscribers.
It's not complicated. Autocrats come to power when there is a weak opposition party, and its citizenry angry because they have been exploited and left behind for decades. Read history.
The Democrats are like MC, always playing victim, using the refrain "we have no power, they control Congress."
Thank god, they were not in power during WW2. Hitler, like Trump and his Party, were always one step ahead of the opposition. And too many Europeans lowered their head and whispered, "this will pass."
However, the resistance all over the world was good, and helped the Allies win, including a wealthy female Parisian who took over the vast resistance movement.
There's a reason all the French Democrats and Socialists came together, to stop right wing racist Marie Le Pen.
It's clear Americans are not there yet, and may never be there.
To make the statement about Cohen with no other details is unfair and demeaning to your following. There must be a way to give some type of explanation. You are risking people unfollowing both Meidas and Cohen.
Yes, you must come out with a podcast discussing Cohens betrayal.
You are allowed to give your opinions on why you think he is turning on gems. and going back to the arse that jailed him. Hopefully he gets what is coming to him, another Trump betrayal!
I agree, I think his ties to that world are too deep. I also thought it was odd , he never seems to mention Epstein much as if he didn’t know anything ..lol
Am I missing something? WHY has Ben not commented on his support and consequential dumping of Cohen? If MTN wants our continued support, as I assume they would, how could they expect their educated listeners to give them a pass? They should be held to the same standard that they hold others to.
Somehow Michael Cohen’s “mea culpa” podcast (maybe via Rosie?) was my gateway into podcasts as a whole and MeidasTouch in particular.
I loved his insights and interviews years ago. After the 2024 election, I could hear an equivocating tone that was alarming to me and I gradually stopped listening to his shows.
As I learned more about the Epstein situation and knowing the time line that Cohen worked for T - it seemed impossible he would not know more than he has/had been willing to admit.
I completely trust Ben and the brothers to handle this in the way they see fit.
I have eternal gratitude and respect for what they have done with Meidas and for the US and the world. 🇺🇸🗽💙
1. A letter was found in the Epstein files, by transcriber Ellie Leonard. The letter was written when Cohen was incarcerated. The letter was between Cohen's lawyers and SDNY prosecutors stating that Cohen is asking for a "rule 35," because he has evidence regarding Trump and Epstein.
2. This letter also threatened Cohen's credibility, as he concisely stated he knew nothing and heard nothing about Epstein.
3. Cohen has been negotiating with Trump for months on getting a pardon. Trump offered him a quid quo pro, undermine Cohen's own testimony by attacking James and Bragg which he did on social media two days ago, followed by Trump also texting in quasi support of Michael, and attacking James and Bragg.
4. Since this letter has come out, with Tara Palmieri and other interviews with Zev Shalev and on Unleashed with Lev Parnes, Jim Acosta, Cohen had become increasingly agitated, personally attacking journalists who asked calm follow up questions.
5. Cohen is a pathological liar. He spoke endearingly (and unnecessarily) about Trish James on multiple interviews on CNN and MSNBC for years. Now he's doing Trumps work by changing his story and attacking James and Bragg.
6. Cohen, a multi millionaire, brags about how much money one can make on substack (Dean Obediyeh), and still lives in Trump Park Ave Tower.
Cohen made remarks Friday on his substack (article titled “When Politics Blind Justice”) where he claims now that he was coerced into saying things against Trump. It came off as though Cohen is trying to get In trump’s good graces again. Also, recent Epstein file findings show that he may have known more about Trump and Epstein. I believe that both of those led to this decision.
We do need to hear from you about this and not just a statement. I’m glad you’ve parted ways after new info came out but please don’t be like msm and skip over this.
This happened for Meidas quickly and I hope they come out with something more at some time. This was a result of the email found in the Epstein files that MC stated he had info to share re Epstein and Trump to try to get out of prison. Tara Palmieri and Zev Shalev had previously asked MC questions r/t Epstein and he flipped out on them and deflected. He was on Acosta some time ago and was off as well along with others. He’s been berating his listeners for not reading what he writes. He states he was around Trump for years and then denies knowing anything. He has also been defending Trump. Historically from MC’s testimonies he had been noted as being inconsistent and lying on several occasions. Apparently there’s have been contact between MC and the regime… perhaps he’s looking for a pardon or something. Recently due to his reactions to anything Epstein he’s been pushed to speak the truth especially after that email was found re him knowing more in the Epstein files. Instead he published a piece stating he was coerced during his testimony and Trump responds in real time. Orchestrated it appears. And this could end up nullifying both their convictions based on our corrupt justice system. So it’s a big deal and a quick response from Midas a day after they found out the extent of what was happening and doing their research would be unprofessional IMO. They were likely blindsided by all of these recent developments.
I have never trusted him or read his articles. He knew much more than he let on; as trump’s “fixer” he certainly was aware of things related to epstein.
Cohen says James and Bragg coerced him into saying bad things about Trump. So is Cohen saying that he perjured himself during those proceedings in New York?
I’m surprised at some of the comments regarding Ben needs to come clean. Simply Ben was Cohen’s boss and hired him on. If a company or corporation fires an employee it is unethical to report the reasons except to staff who need to know in HR. All information is confidential. Ben and the other partners would open themselves up to legal issues. Ben is a very smart attorney who knows his legal liabilities. He is not going to go on record and state why Cohen was fired. The statement that Ben made that Cohen no longer works here is legally what he can say. He owes no one anything else as legally he can’t. Ben needs to focus on his family, career, writing and recording videos while having to read countless articles and watching videos to keep abreast of the breaking news. Thank you Ben for your leadership and keeping your readers and listeners with updates to all the breaking news.
I did find it odd that Cohen was affiliated with MT. I found his insights into what’s left of Trumps brain and behavior interesting. He was reading candy, just entertaining after a long day of reading through all that’s happening. I agree we need more info about the separation. Right now Cohen looks like the victim here and that needs to be dispelled.
Greetings from Minneapolis. I was proud of my city yesterday for welcoming J6 felon Jake Lang with water balloons, a super soaker (so refreshing on single-digit temperatures) and a barrage of silly string, driving him back to his hotel.
I call it Karma. Jake Lang was convicted of beating an officer with a bat. How terrified that officer had to be.
The look of anguish on Jake Lang's face and if indeed someone did stab him and him being chased away by the brave protestors is the product of what you sow is what you reap!
Its easy to find…Cohen has turned and gone back to Trump…claiming he was coerced by Leticia James. Its public knowledge. Cohen has not been truthful about Epstein…claiming he never knew him… but emails tell a different story. Cohen lied. Not just a suggestion… fact
We have sad news for our Mideas family. Unfortunately, we learned that MC has not been forthright in his reporting, and has now attacked two federal prosecutors.....
Moving forward we will be more circumspect in who we support on our network. We apologize for how frustrated, sad and duped, many of you feel, we fell it as well.
We will continue to report on this and all stories that impact our country.
You all are just nosey pretending to care about their reputation. If you really want to know what happened. Go to Wajahat Ali page here on Substack and click his Live where it says going is going back to trump. In that Live Lev parnas mutes 🔇 his Live and calls Ben. He told him everything. Happy? Happy with that response? Let's move in please!
They should have come out with at least a cursory explanation immediately. Even a “we can’t comment yet due to legal constraints” would be fine. This is terrible PR and undermines the independent and open dynamic they have fostered with their subscribers.
Now I'm wondering if Michael Cohen and Trump's people planned all of this and Cohen was acting as a Trojan Horse knowing that we he finally took the mask off, the braying social media mob would instantly turn on MeidasTouch and try to discredit the most successful pro Democracy anti trump media network
Ben. You were my first paid subscription. I need more from you on the Michael Cohen stuff. Not just a written note that many people won't even see. I need you to do an episode Ben. I've seen your distaste now and then, for something he said. So, I want details. What happened during that call with Lev on Waj's show?
They are ALL lawyers working to quickly get out of a contract. How much do you think they can comment? I have faith in the Meiselas brothers, Ron Filipkowski and Michael Popok and so many others. I can clearly see the hours they put in. A little patience, perhaps? 🤦♀️
Unfortunately it appears the braying social media mob will play right into the hands of Cohen and his trump cabal cronies plot to have used Cohen as the Trojan horse to try and discredit and take down the most successful pro Democracy anti trump media network
No you don't. Seriously guys. WTF? Stop being nosey!! You all are pretending to care for MTNs reputation but in truth ya'll being nosey. If you must know. Go to Wajahat Ali Substack page and you'll see why. And when you do don't come here asking that you need more. Enough. If we're smart enough we can infer what happened. And know that that's why MTN severed all relationship with Michael. End this. Let's move on or unsubscribe. It's that simple.
Give it time I’m sure he’ll address it, but I can’t imagine what he’s feeling right now. More than ultimate betrayal by a friend he thought was trying to redeem himself from his past.
Maybe give them time to process everything and do their due diligence before they say something that could leave the entire MTN legally exposed and shut down by Cohen and the Trump cabal which have the entire right wing billionaire legal Mafia and courts at their disposal?
I wonder if that was his ultimate goal. Here I go down a conspiracy hole. I get the legal stuff. I get the personal stuff. But I do need a little more from Ron and Ben.
I'd like to promote Robert Hubbell as well. He's similar to HCR - same type of audience, always provides optimism while being realistic. Same with Simon Rosenberg.
Thanks, Ben. I realise this must be difficult, but please inform the MeidasMighty about the Michael Cohen situation - I had to learn about it from Lev Parnas' Substack, and then from Google! It should have come from you guys first.
You really need to comment on Cohen or you risk losing your credibility. We ALL know what’s going on thanks to Lev so now it’s just getting weird that you’re staying silent !
Dear Still Here.....it's obvious that you haven't listened to Lev. I have great respect for him and his telling the truth about what's going on. Please listen to him with openness. He respects the Meidas Touch and is strongly asking people not to condemn them until we hear from Ben. It must be a real blow to them.
If you listen to Lev you know he has redeemed himself. Listen to all the info he provides, and the congressmen that come onto his substack, and ethical journalists that appear with him.
Shame on you for not stating exactly why he's "just as bad."
He shouldn’t be platformed by MTN but here we are. Lev is a lying sack too! It’s laughable how many people just accept someone bc they hate Trump now. It’s kinda pathetic.
He's the one that brought a lot of this to the attention. I don't "accept someone because they hate Trump". I do have some critical thinking abilities and take a lot of what is said with a grain of salt. And you are entitled to your opinion.
Looks like Trump and Cohen's Trojan horse scheme to divide discredit and conquer the best pro democracy Anti Trump media network is working on the braying social media mob 😒
He actually is protecting his credibility. If you already know about it, what more needs to be said? They saw what was happening and decided not to platform someone who has been lying the entire time.
If they had any kind of written agreement or contract with Michael Cohen, then being the good lawyers that they are, they are not saying much in order to protect themselves. I would defer to Lev Parnas For details.
Yup they partnered and promoted MC. You're telling me they just thought he was nice and just got together. Naive much? They should have done better. Disappointed and now nothing??
Nope- some people have the capacity to change and make amends. Lev is one of them. Listen to his substack and you will have the proof. he doesn't personally attack people, he doesn't deflect, and he was never close with MC.
before you make a stamens, you should know the history of why Lev attacked Ben, this was the damage left behind by MC! After Lev hosted investigative journalists who had found new evidence about MC and the Trump /Epstein connection, MC tried to triangulate Lev and his son Aaron, through Mideas.
The difference is, that Lev apologized later for his anger, and discussed it with Ben. They made peace. That's conflict resolution. That's someone who has tried to work to better himself.
I support MEIDASTOUCH (Ben and the gang). Katie is a great addition. The YouTube vids Ben and his team produce are timely and on target. Subscribe and share. I often share them with my 27,000 Bluesky followers.
I don’t think there’s been any silence. They’ve announced that Cohen’s not on the platform anymore. I imagine Ben wants us to sink in and I’ll let us know in due time.
I’m sitting here with my coffee and sleeping dog taking a break between teaching virtually and internationally. Thanks for the review of the week. This last week made me feel melancholy and of sometimes it’s hard to breathe if I pay attention to the socio-economic and political developments in the US. Have a good day.
Amber, among the hundreds of things that disturb me the most are the inevitable economic consequences of
t-rump’s horrible “deals” plus wiping out jobs due to fear among immigrants and the millions of people already just getting by. I think the goal is to defeat the US economically. And now the “tech bros” have us in their grip. A frightening combination.
Trump is now auditioning for a new NATO submissive to him. For $1,000,000,000 any country that he vets can join his Donato Assembly of Capitulating Nations.
It's also been reported on AP and others just now that trump wants to send 1500 MILITARY troops into MN. Where the F*** is Congress??? Do they really support sending the military, in violation of posse comitatus, to attack one of our member states! When will congress end this madness? Where are the four republican MN congressmen as their own state is attacked by the government?
As a paid subscriber I would like to know what happened with Michael Cohen. I'm not okay with the short statement that was posted. I never trusted Michael Cohen due to his relationship with Trump.
Please be more forthcoming with information about this issue. I want to maintain trust with MTN.
You all are sounding like freaking robots at this point. Like bots. If you must know what happened your highness, go to Wajahat Ali's Substack page and you'll learn why. And if by that Live you're still not satisfied. Then bye bye 👋. We can't continue beating the same horse. Enough is enough. Let's MOVE ON damn it. We have bigger freaking fish to fry. 😠😤
Everyone has a right to voice their opinions here. That's what makes democracy great. So how about you calm down, stop calling people out and perhaps you move on!! And go fry your fish. Thanks
That may be the case. However, I would expect MTN to state that due to ongoing litigation they can't comment on the situation. Otherwise it leaves us to speculate on what happened and that is never a good thing.
Please comment on Cohen
Per our note yesterday: MeidasTouch Network will no longer be producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen. https://substack.com/@meidastouch/note/c-201268400?r=2b8mnr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Guys you know you are loved but you HAVE to give us more than this. Cohen might have been a mole. His betrayal is too perfectly timed to be cooincidence. You HAVE to release a clearly labeled and lengthly statement about what is going on and what happened and you need to do it NOW. The whole point was to ruin your credability and people's trust in you. YOU CANNOT LET THEM; WE NEED YOU TOO BADLY.
We absolutely need to hear more about Michael Cohen. By not providing more details you are hurting YOUR credibility.
Give them time. I'm VERY eager to know as well, but some things have to be tied up first...I imagine. They were connected for years. Plus, Cohen is so litigious
This is exactly what the enemy wants to give doubts…Legal aspects play in big part to carefully release info…
Also he lied saying he knew nothing about the Katie Johnson situation where a young 13 year old girl accused Trump and Epstein of rape. Court documents found by Ellie Leonard show that cohen tried to get a deal with the Feds by offering up information about it. All while claiming he never even heard anything about Epstein. It appears that he may have been involved with the threatening of the girl who later dropped her criminal case because the threats were so terrifying. He may have paid her family off also.
And he did it on MTN’s airwaves, intimidation by podcast
I imagine that she and her family were paid off, probably lavishly at the last minute. There is history of other lavish pay-offs.
Yes first they threaten then they say “but if you do what you’re told will give you all this money all you have to do is go away and you will be safe and rich”
The issue here is not your subtle smearing of the victims, by stating they were probably paid off. You wrote that several times throughout the moment section.
What a terrible cold thing to write. Only a male would write just that and nothing else.
Of course Rowan, I agree. The whole reason Mideas has a following is because we were sick of the news media covering up, placating, and kowtowing to financial interests.
Now they are doing the same.
That's quite the leap to accuse them of kowtowing to financial interests
Author and concentration camp survivor Elie Weisel wrote
silence = complicity.
The evidence is Ben's three postings put out and no reporting on what should've been the biggest news story that could topple Trump:
Transcriber and author Ellie Leonard has been diligently combing through the Epstein files, along with her subscribers. She found a letter
written by MC's attorneys to the SDNY asking for a article 35, because MC had info on Trump and Epstein.
This should have been breaking news!
Because between that letter and all the other info coming out about MC's behavior, it put Mideas into a position of conflict of interest. Mideas did the right thing once Wajahat Ali found out that MC was attacking Letia James and Bragg, and notified Lev Parnas who informed Ben. FYI, this is all available on Waj and Lev's substack and utube.
Perhaps the lesson learned here is that we are very much in a war. You cannot fight a war alone. We just saw this last year in France when all the democratic groups (far more than we have), banded together to fight against Marie Le Pen.
So the lesson Mideas should glean from this, aside from a better vetting procedure of those in the network, is to ask the real investigative journalists, and those with important contacts, to join the Mideas network; Wajahat Ali, Zev Shalev, Lev Parnes, and Ellie Leonard.
Yep! Exactly! So disappointing. And for those saying give them time - if MT wasn't smart enough to cover their ass from this happening when they invited the devil in, then they aren't as smart as we give them credit for.
So now you're blaming then victim?
MeidasTouch is no victim. Not sure how you come to that conclusion. I tried watching mea culpa and another Michael Cohen broadcast on MT, and I couldn’t stomach it. Michael Cohen was so obvious and I always thought to myself, why does Meidas keep him on? Some people are better judges of character than others.
In my opinion the last thing we need is Hilary Clinton running, unless we are true masochists.
And it doesn't matter anyway, because she would lose.
Why would their credibility be affected? Honest question. Why? They got rid of him. That's proof enough that they know now what Michael Cohen has done and that he truly wasn't a changed man. Why does MTN have to get into details? Because people are nosey? Is that it? Honest question. We can infer that the business relationship was severed due to Michael Cohen's lies and the fact that he's hiding something about tje Epstein files. IT IS CLEAR. Enough already with wanting MTN to stay on this topic a minute longer. Be satisfied with the fact that they severed their relationship with him fully. You will not get more than this. If you want more go to Michael himself and ask him directly if you dare. Leave it alone already. And if you keep staying unsatisfied move on. Unsubscribe from MTN and don't comment again. This is my opinion. Let. It. Go. It's done. Finito. Let's not obsess over this any longer.
Agree. Cohen seemed to offer insights that were unique.
When the betrayal was revealed, Meidas severed ties. The end.
Exactly…people have a bad habit of blaming like it was intentional and it wasn’t…They forget that sometimes they forget the mistakes they’ve made in life but no one else is allowed to…
Exactly. Keith Edward on YouTube put out a video talking about Michael Cohen. And thanking MTN for getting rid of him. People just love the drama of it all. They love to instigate and add fuel to the fire 🔥. It's so unbecoming.
MTN always talking about having “the receipts “. Well, do they them on this? Maybe that’s why some people are not rushing to judgment on the severing of ties. Maybe I missed them. If so, point me towards them
Girl please. Don't make me laugh. Cohen is and as always been a shady character. He is a sociopath. He's a talented writer, I'll give him that. But is also makes him an expert bull shitter. He's only out to save his hide. If you must know more... 😮💨🙄😒 go to Wajahat Ali's Substack page and you'll find a Live he did about this. You should get your answers. Fuethermore you can always go to Keith Edward's channel on YouTube and you'll learn. Also on MTN bulletin reports with Ron. There you can learn. It's so easy to research yet people continually prefer to wag their tongues in dissent and accusations instead of doing research. The Meiselas brothers don't owe us an explanation because it is VERY clear why they severed ties with him. They were duped by him as many of us were. Nobody is perfect. The important thing here is that they got rid of him. In my opinion, that speaks of their good integrity. Now let's move on. Thank you.
Well stated Black Raven, well stated.
Thanks for the tip on Wajahat Ali, I'll go find his live on substack and give it a listen.
I listened to a Lev Parnas broadcast however I never fully trust him either. The reason is when Jack Smith testified to the Senate behind closed doors but the released video and the transcript has Jack Smith saying Lev Parnas lied to him. So if Jack Smith says Lev Parnas is a liar I will take that to the bank.
are you their mother? your attitude is rude. Subscribers are rightfully questioning this. Many WEREN'T duped and said so to no avail. So please desist from belittling people and trying to close the subject before it's finished. This isn't a blip. this is a very serious credibility issue. You aren't helping them by being combative and dismissive.
Totally agree with Rowan. Cohen is messy but he has been spot on as it relates to how Trump thinks and approaches situations. He's the only one that can give that insight and he has been very forthcoming. We need to stop the purity tests on every single topic. That's why Meidas needs to give more clarity to this. A video with Ben & Michael to discuss differences and part ways would be great. My first instinct is the D machine wanted him off and the Meidas growth goals are bigger than Cohen so they cut him loose. I really I hope I'm wrong.
That isn’t it at all. Michael Cohen has been lying about his affiliation with the Epstein files and many other things. His insight is not what you think it is. He has been trying to get a pardon from Trump for months and just released a Substack saying Leticia James coerced his testimony against Trump. It appears this was done in conjunction with Trump and trump released a statement simultaneously with Cohen. Cohen has never been on the side of righteous people he has been in it for himself and Trump.
I'm sure he saw what Gislaine got and wanted something for himself. He probably knows as much as she does. Maybe more. He was Drumps's fixer for many years. He was convicted of other crimes, one involving taxi medallions. Whatever that was.
So he conned Ben, too? How smart does that show MT to be? :(
I know… I know… I just think they wanted to believe Cohen had changed. I told them and many others did as well but I guess they needed physical proof before they would do anything.
Anybody CAN BE conned, if the con is good enough! Let's give Ben a break, until we see the receipts, Ben has always been honest and shows receipts.
Wow way to blame the victim of Cohen's schemes
He conned millions, because good people, and especially naive Americans, who have never lived in a totalitarian country, who have never faced extreme poverty or racism, usually have their guard down, and at the very minimum took democracy for granted. It's a cultural problem.
He’s the reason Katie Johnson is in hiding, wake up!⬆️
I’m sure that Trump’s goons got to her…Makes me wonder about Virginia’s demise….
I suspect that you might be right.
He just found out about this yesterday, so I agree, give him time.
Ben , I'm sorry to hear about the betrayal of your faith in Mr. Cohen.
Check out the video from Wajahat Ali and "It's about the Epstein Files". and this will give you a bit more information as to what happened. It was posted January 17th on his YouTube site.
Got to admit Cohen wrote well. That's the thing with a well thought out lie,( notice I didn't use the word good here,) it becomes harder to detect. Proproganda works like that, also.
With all due respect, there needs to be more than that. If it's legal stuff going on, just say that. He's been quite prominent on this network and I think a fuller explanation is needed with the full betrayal aired out!
I'm kind of surprised MT didn't catch his inconsistencies regarding Epstein earlier
I often wondered "why" you had him on your show.
The same reason every pro Democracy/anti trump podcast/pundit has had numerous former Trump people who appeared to have turned on him and made some effort to redeem themselves. In Cohen's case, he was the one who got trump convicted of 34 felonies, an unprecedented milestone in all the years of people chasing accountability for his decades of crimes. Now people are blaming the best pro Democracy network that has been consistently fighting back and helped get out the vote in 2020 spending millions on campaign ads before they even had a a million subscribers and zero clout in the Democratic Party. Cohen is as snake and shape shifter that changes his colors as opportunities arise.
I don't blame MT or Ben. We can all get fooled.
Hilary Clinton Never: From Shakespeare: Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
A simple:
Mideas Family,
Like you we are in shock at the latest news. MC will not be in our network any more. Please be patient while we learn more about this issue, and weigh our position and courses of actions.
We told you we would be unlike legacy media, bring you the breaking news, with journalistic ethics and facts based. We respect our millions of subscribers, and will inform you of our deliberations soon.
I would say the stakes are way too high to gamble with anyone from the former trump admin. Dictatorship is not even a fucking option.
Politicians will always be snakes in the grass looking for their next snack.
I don't think so. They wanted his famous name to grow their enterprise. If they are so noble why do they aggressively ask for money every single post? Others don't. Cohen is the reason I never paid for a sub. Read him for a few months and it was obvious to me Cohen was still on Trump's team and was not really adding anything of value, just lots of 'poor me' about having been rightfully imprisoned. It has damaged Meidas' credibility
I wondered the same thing.
Cuz proproganda can fool even the most intelligent of us. Am guilty of not always using my crtical thinking skills.
Second guessing resolves nothing and so does quick to judge Meidas…
Thank you for telling me something I was NOT doing. I was simply asking why, because he's a former trump employee PERIOD. THAT was all I was thinking about. YOU jumped the gun.
Cop out. You're supposed to be journalists? What is the story? Why is he not on Mideas anymore?
You can find the entire story of The lies Cohen spews, on Youtube.
You guys need to do better than this. We were getting a shitload of Cohen’s written pieces pushed to our feeds every week.
Wasn't political Beatdown cohosted with Ben Meisalas? The questions are, why did you associate with him in the first place and why did you cut ties?
Ben, please walk us through the beginning, middle, and end of MTN’s arrangement with Cohen — and tell us why you gave him special status in the producer hierarchy.
There was an email by Cohen's lawyers in the released Epstein files that triggered all of this. It all only came to light in the last week or so.
Very disappointing from you guys. As a paid subscriber I was used to getting tons of Cohen’s written posts pushed out from MTN each week. I didn’t care for them (he obviously used AI heavily for his pieces) and I’m glad he’s gone. But this is a major announcement and for you to be so coy about one of your most prolific contributors leaving with zero explanation is very opaque and the opposite of what I subscribe to MTN for. If you guys don’t openly address this I’m going to cut the subscription and just stick with the Bulwark.
I blocked Cohen long ago. I also think that Lev is shady
AF.
Doesn't Lev Parnas have a shady path, also?
Yes, and he'll be the first to admit it, he has made amends. If you watch his substack you will see. He does amazing concrete work for Ukrainians and for trying to help save our country.
Please stop defaming Lev Parnas. You obviously are uniformed and don't listen to him, or the excellent and ethical Rep. Jaime Raskin, who just appeared on his substack, or the investigative journalists he platforms, who have the real inside info, because of the hours, and years of research they do (Zev Shalev, Ellie leonard, Wajahat Ali). They don't just report breaking news, they have access to the insiders.
Yes but the facts are very clear regarding MC's lies
Well... about Lev Parnas.... Jack Smith in his recent closed door Testimony to the Senate Panel that was released on You Tube and a transcript, Jack Smith said Lev Parnas lied to him, so there is that.
Then cut ties. Nobody is stopping you.
If they don’t address it then I (and I suspect many others based on the reaction to every post they have made) will.
I thought the same thing about Cohen using AI to help him write his articles.
Michael “em dash” Cohen.
I know what that is Mike, good one.
That's all fine, but the conspicuous absence of your commentary in any DEPTH about this Michael Cohen debacle does your otherwise conscientious work no good.
There may be legal action in the offing. That cannot be compromised by blabbing everything you may know about the relationship.
This is NOT enough. You owe us who have (until now) put our trust in you some kind of further explanation.
Was this a little hasty? Michael was Trump’s “fixer” but I hardly think that he was the “fixer” for this entire pedophile ring. The women themselves were too frightened to come forward for many years, and even their knowledge of the scope of this dreadful thing was limited until they discovered exactly how many women had been abused. “Fixing” a Stormy Daniels problem is one thing…covering up an an international cabal of extremely rich and powerful men is entirely another. I imagine that Michael knows some things, I am guessing that these things are mostly peripheral to the enterprise( these high rollers are not going to put their reputations in the hands of a Michael Cohen..with apologies to Michael). That said…whatever he knows, whatever he heard, and whether he thinks that it is relevant or not, the time has come to tell what if anything he knows. Please don’t cut him off, encourage him to use the Meidas megaphone to expose any possible information he might have. And if there’s stuff that is so explosive that his life is in danger(do you REALLY believe that Epstein committed suicide!) he needs to quietly go to Congress and spill it. The time has come.
CE, your comment is very uniformed. No one said he knew "everything." This is much more than a pedofile ring. You need to read Canadian investigative journalist's series The Greatest Heist (Dr. Zev Shalev), over at the substack The Narativ.
There is a direct line though, from Cohen to Trump via what Cohen knows about the 2016 lawsuit filed by Katie Johnson There is no way in hell that Cohen did not know about this, and most likely, the most obvious thing is, being "the fixer," for Trump he was the one that threatened Johnson, that caused her to stop the lawsuit. It would have definitely brought down Trumps residency, because she filed this during Trump's first campaign.
This is huge, this is enormous.
Katie Johnson is a pseudonym for one of the victims..maybe she could out the fixer? Did she say it was Cohen? I am not saying that the guy is blameless,, I am saying that whatever he knows, he needs to tell. I am also not going to convict Cohen without knowing. Calling folks “uninformed” because they do not agree with you 100% is not seemly.
I imagine that she got a huge settlement and signed an NDA for the money. Why would she be motivated to expose herself to the rabid Magats and ruin her life (again). Put yourself in her position.
clearly you aren't. you have no idea. That woman was terrified in the interview I saw. why are you talking about payouts and why are other people acting as though victims getting payouts means they aren't victims? what a pile of ridiculous garbage. Maybe have a listen to Sascha Riley
You obviously don't have a clue what it's like to be raped at age 13, to make the comment you write above.
You obviously don't have a clue about MC.
What have you read, that you base your opinion on?
I have read Zev Shalev's investigative research for the past 10 years on this sex espionage case, I have read the Muller Report, and all Craig Unger's books on Trump/Russian organized crime, and those Americans involved, as well as Weiss' The Foreign Desk, Nina Burleigh,
Seth Abramson, David Kay Johnson's The Big Cheat, The Making of Donald Trump, and the astute reporting by Lev Parnas, and Wajahat Ali.
It's all there, but nothing takes the place of many hours of reading.
You do not know my life circumstances, or my history, so a gratuitous attack like the one you’ve posted is….again….unseemly. Why not let the facts emerge and speak for themselves? And are you really holding up Lev Parnas as a beacon of honesty when he is, in fact, exactly the same as Michael Cohen..a guy who got involved in some bad stuff and is trying to work his way out of it? Read critically, not just for quantity.
Right Sara, right.
That's my point. A professional liar can fool just about everyone.
The lies surrounding the whole Epstein affair are huge and convoluted. If ANY individual who was in that orbit has any information that is even tangentially relevant, they should spill it now. If Michael Cohen is one of those people, then he needs to come clean. I would be very surprised if Cohen had absolutely no knowledge. I’d be equally surprised to find out that he was some sort of major”fixer”. He was on a good path with regard to his Trump involvement, if he doesn’t continue, then all his other actions will have been for nothing and his reputation repair nonexistent. Cohen was a goon for a two-bit third-tier real estate “developer”….I would be gobsmacked if the high-flyers in the Epstein world depended on him to fix their criminal issues.
This is very simple: start with reading the letter from the Epstein Files, where in 2019 his lawyers wrote to SDNY prosecutors stating that MC had info on Trump and Epstein and wanted in return an article 35 (reduction in sentence).
As Lev pointed out, MC's lawyers knew this would have to be major revelations by MC, in order to get an article 35.
So people are objecting to MC constantly telling everyone that he knew nothing, heard nothing.
He was on charge of the beauty pageant contest
I know this will cause deep sorrow for you personally Ben, and your brothers. I too am saddened by this turn of events. Trust betrayed is painful.
You will negotiate this with grace, as you have every step in the Meidas journey. You have my trust and support because you have earned it.
Thankyou.
with grace??? OMG, people are so naive. There is no negotiation with grace, when it comes to criminals. have we not learned anything from 12 years of trump?
What hopefully guides Meidas is the cut throat lawyering skills of a prosecutor.
MC betrayed his public and stole our money under false pretenses, and put Mideas in a conflict of interest (to say the least).
The Democrats enabled Trump. A tyrant only comes into power with a weak and feckless opposition party.
You don't only bring speeches, and lawsuits to a gun fight. And you support your public base when they've been duped. I haven't seen any apology by Mideas to their paid subscribers.
The Democrats enabled Trump????More like the Republicans did and do continue to do so….
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It's not complicated. Autocrats come to power when there is a weak opposition party, and its citizenry angry because they have been exploited and left behind for decades. Read history.
The Democrats are like MC, always playing victim, using the refrain "we have no power, they control Congress."
Thank god, they were not in power during WW2. Hitler, like Trump and his Party, were always one step ahead of the opposition. And too many Europeans lowered their head and whispered, "this will pass."
However, the resistance all over the world was good, and helped the Allies win, including a wealthy female Parisian who took over the vast resistance movement.
There's a reason all the French Democrats and Socialists came together, to stop right wing racist Marie Le Pen.
It's clear Americans are not there yet, and may never be there.
Can you PLEASE explain what happened with cohen???? What is going on? I am in New Zealand and feel uninformed!!!
Hi Ben, that's great but a further explenation would be good. I understand meidas is about truth and trust, being open etc. Thanks
To make the statement about Cohen with no other details is unfair and demeaning to your following. There must be a way to give some type of explanation. You are risking people unfollowing both Meidas and Cohen.
Yes, you must come out with a podcast discussing Cohens betrayal.
You are allowed to give your opinions on why you think he is turning on gems. and going back to the arse that jailed him. Hopefully he gets what is coming to him, another Trump betrayal!
I’m glad Ben and the MTN team cut ties with Cohen. I never felt comfortable with him and this shows he hasn’t changed.
Yeah. If Cohen hadn't been thrown under the bus by dRump he'd still be part of that team, right?
I agree, I think his ties to that world are too deep. I also thought it was odd , he never seems to mention Epstein much as if he didn’t know anything ..lol
He's a liar
Everybody who has worked for Donald Trump is a liar. It's a requirement.
In the DC case, approximately 88 Trump appointees, all MAGA, came clean.
Add the guilty pleas in Georgia.
Am I missing something? WHY has Ben not commented on his support and consequential dumping of Cohen? If MTN wants our continued support, as I assume they would, how could they expect their educated listeners to give them a pass? They should be held to the same standard that they hold others to.
I'm thinking there is some legal exposure. Lawfare can ruin your life, even if you are innocent. The huge expenses will crush you.
Investigative journalist Tara Palmeri talks with Steve Schmidt about Cohen at the beginning of the interview…
https://open.substack.com/pub/tarapalmeri/p/live-with-tara-palmeri-to-talk-epstein?r=fqsxl&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
How about we skip the drama and focus on stopping authoritarianism instead.
Our focus is — and will remain — on reporting the news and confronting authoritarianism at home and abroad.
Wow,I'm really shocked at your response Ben. I can't think of anything more important for getting rid of Trump, than reporting on what Cohen just did.
Somehow Michael Cohen’s “mea culpa” podcast (maybe via Rosie?) was my gateway into podcasts as a whole and MeidasTouch in particular.
I loved his insights and interviews years ago. After the 2024 election, I could hear an equivocating tone that was alarming to me and I gradually stopped listening to his shows.
As I learned more about the Epstein situation and knowing the time line that Cohen worked for T - it seemed impossible he would not know more than he has/had been willing to admit.
I completely trust Ben and the brothers to handle this in the way they see fit.
I have eternal gratitude and respect for what they have done with Meidas and for the US and the world. 🇺🇸🗽💙
Bill, what happened with Mr. Cohen?
1. A letter was found in the Epstein files, by transcriber Ellie Leonard. The letter was written when Cohen was incarcerated. The letter was between Cohen's lawyers and SDNY prosecutors stating that Cohen is asking for a "rule 35," because he has evidence regarding Trump and Epstein.
2. This letter also threatened Cohen's credibility, as he concisely stated he knew nothing and heard nothing about Epstein.
3. Cohen has been negotiating with Trump for months on getting a pardon. Trump offered him a quid quo pro, undermine Cohen's own testimony by attacking James and Bragg which he did on social media two days ago, followed by Trump also texting in quasi support of Michael, and attacking James and Bragg.
4. Since this letter has come out, with Tara Palmieri and other interviews with Zev Shalev and on Unleashed with Lev Parnes, Jim Acosta, Cohen had become increasingly agitated, personally attacking journalists who asked calm follow up questions.
5. Cohen is a pathological liar. He spoke endearingly (and unnecessarily) about Trish James on multiple interviews on CNN and MSNBC for years. Now he's doing Trumps work by changing his story and attacking James and Bragg.
6. Cohen, a multi millionaire, brags about how much money one can make on substack (Dean Obediyeh), and still lives in Trump Park Ave Tower.
And this is not all of it.
Wow, thank you for the synopsis Sara
What I wrote can be found on Zev Shalev's substack Narativ:
https://www.narativ.org/p/trumps-lawyer-michael-cohen-is-the?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=4bcb0&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Ellie Leonard's substack The Panicked Writer:
https://ellieleonard.substack.com
I am just trying to find out.
Cohen made remarks Friday on his substack (article titled “When Politics Blind Justice”) where he claims now that he was coerced into saying things against Trump. It came off as though Cohen is trying to get In trump’s good graces again. Also, recent Epstein file findings show that he may have known more about Trump and Epstein. I believe that both of those led to this decision.
Not surprising
We do need to hear from you about this and not just a statement. I’m glad you’ve parted ways after new info came out but please don’t be like msm and skip over this.
This happened for Meidas quickly and I hope they come out with something more at some time. This was a result of the email found in the Epstein files that MC stated he had info to share re Epstein and Trump to try to get out of prison. Tara Palmieri and Zev Shalev had previously asked MC questions r/t Epstein and he flipped out on them and deflected. He was on Acosta some time ago and was off as well along with others. He’s been berating his listeners for not reading what he writes. He states he was around Trump for years and then denies knowing anything. He has also been defending Trump. Historically from MC’s testimonies he had been noted as being inconsistent and lying on several occasions. Apparently there’s have been contact between MC and the regime… perhaps he’s looking for a pardon or something. Recently due to his reactions to anything Epstein he’s been pushed to speak the truth especially after that email was found re him knowing more in the Epstein files. Instead he published a piece stating he was coerced during his testimony and Trump responds in real time. Orchestrated it appears. And this could end up nullifying both their convictions based on our corrupt justice system. So it’s a big deal and a quick response from Midas a day after they found out the extent of what was happening and doing their research would be unprofessional IMO. They were likely blindsided by all of these recent developments.
I have never trusted him or read his articles. He knew much more than he let on; as trump’s “fixer” he certainly was aware of things related to epstein.
I agree with Bill, why is Cohen no longer with MTN?
He's gone back to Trump. Accused Tish James and Alvin Bragg of coercing information about Trump from him when he was charged.
Cohen says James and Bragg coerced him into saying bad things about Trump. So is Cohen saying that he perjured himself during those proceedings in New York?
For the man who says he knew nothing about Epstein Files more connections will come. The fixer misses the fixing.
Cohen is a New York tough guy lawyer. It's hard to imagine him being coerced into speaking. Ha, Ha. He's just trying to get back to Trump
We have 100 of hours of him/ cohen bashing Trump…🤣
He’s as fucking nuts as the rest of the sadsacks.
Fool me once….
But don't we want Ben to address this in an open way? Fool me once....
Or maybe just as opportunistic ...
Cohen will always be a Liar & Thug, for Trump. He can never be trusted.
Always helps to do a Duck.ai search:
Michael Cohen is leaving the MeidasTouch Network after claiming he felt coerced by prosecutors to provide testimony against Donald Trump, which led the network to cut ties with him. This decision came shortly after Cohen expressed his concerns about the pressure he faced during legal proceedings involving Trump.https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Is+Michael+Cohen+leaving+Meidas+Touch+Network%3F&t=ddg_ios&atb=v249-1&ko=-1&ia=web&assist=true
I’m surprised at some of the comments regarding Ben needs to come clean. Simply Ben was Cohen’s boss and hired him on. If a company or corporation fires an employee it is unethical to report the reasons except to staff who need to know in HR. All information is confidential. Ben and the other partners would open themselves up to legal issues. Ben is a very smart attorney who knows his legal liabilities. He is not going to go on record and state why Cohen was fired. The statement that Ben made that Cohen no longer works here is legally what he can say. He owes no one anything else as legally he can’t. Ben needs to focus on his family, career, writing and recording videos while having to read countless articles and watching videos to keep abreast of the breaking news. Thank you Ben for your leadership and keeping your readers and listeners with updates to all the breaking news.
I did find it odd that Cohen was affiliated with MT. I found his insights into what’s left of Trumps brain and behavior interesting. He was reading candy, just entertaining after a long day of reading through all that’s happening. I agree we need more info about the separation. Right now Cohen looks like the victim here and that needs to be dispelled.
Greetings from Minneapolis. I was proud of my city yesterday for welcoming J6 felon Jake Lang with water balloons, a super soaker (so refreshing on single-digit temperatures) and a barrage of silly string, driving him back to his hotel.
If you want to stop this asap, confront your four (4) Republican House members. Contact their major donors. Their families.
Picket Fox.
You get nowhere when you have to input your address & zip code. They don't care to hear from non-constituents. Donors, I don't know.
Look up their local office address with zip code and use that as your address and zip code
Works like a charm
Also put the whitehouse email as the email address and opt in to receive emails.
Also you can use a different name
Just a comment
Also they have staff, you can get their nemes and contact info.
We are thinking about you all! Stay strong and safe. We have your back!
Stay strong neighbor!
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The fun side of fascism 🎈
I call it Karma. Jake Lang was convicted of beating an officer with a bat. How terrified that officer had to be.
The look of anguish on Jake Lang's face and if indeed someone did stab him and him being chased away by the brave protestors is the product of what you sow is what you reap!
Excellent comment my friend!
This from CA voter standing with Minnesota!
you should respond to the Michael Cohen stuff
Per our note yesterday: MeidasTouch Network will no longer be producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen. https://substack.com/@meidastouch/note/c-201268400?r=2b8mnr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
And…..????
🤫🤫🤫🤫 enough. There is no and? They said what they said. Take it for what it is or leave it... As in leave, leave.
Its easy to find…Cohen has turned and gone back to Trump…claiming he was coerced by Leticia James. Its public knowledge. Cohen has not been truthful about Epstein…claiming he never knew him… but emails tell a different story. Cohen lied. Not just a suggestion… fact
Let’s hear Medias Touch say that.
I'm a bit surprised they didn't ...I got annoyed bcuz so many were asking. My comments are not opinion or gossip. Easy to confirm facts.
You say you promote the truth. Be transparent about cohen.
Give them a minute. They will
How long does it take to write:
We have sad news for our Mideas family. Unfortunately, we learned that MC has not been forthright in his reporting, and has now attacked two federal prosecutors.....
Moving forward we will be more circumspect in who we support on our network. We apologize for how frustrated, sad and duped, many of you feel, we fell it as well.
We will continue to report on this and all stories that impact our country.
That took about 1 min.
You all are just nosey pretending to care about their reputation. If you really want to know what happened. Go to Wajahat Ali page here on Substack and click his Live where it says going is going back to trump. In that Live Lev parnas mutes 🔇 his Live and calls Ben. He told him everything. Happy? Happy with that response? Let's move in please!
They should have come out with at least a cursory explanation immediately. Even a “we can’t comment yet due to legal constraints” would be fine. This is terrible PR and undermines the independent and open dynamic they have fostered with their subscribers.
Exactly, gosh! A responsible person does i's & crosses it's before acting. I'm sure it's a mess to detach. Ben considered him a close friend.
Now I'm wondering if Michael Cohen and Trump's people planned all of this and Cohen was acting as a Trojan Horse knowing that we he finally took the mask off, the braying social media mob would instantly turn on MeidasTouch and try to discredit the most successful pro Democracy anti trump media network
How much longer.....
Ben. You were my first paid subscription. I need more from you on the Michael Cohen stuff. Not just a written note that many people won't even see. I need you to do an episode Ben. I've seen your distaste now and then, for something he said. So, I want details. What happened during that call with Lev on Waj's show?
They are ALL lawyers working to quickly get out of a contract. How much do you think they can comment? I have faith in the Meiselas brothers, Ron Filipkowski and Michael Popok and so many others. I can clearly see the hours they put in. A little patience, perhaps? 🤦♀️
Unfortunately it appears the braying social media mob will play right into the hands of Cohen and his trump cabal cronies plot to have used Cohen as the Trojan horse to try and discredit and take down the most successful pro Democracy anti trump media network
No you don't. Seriously guys. WTF? Stop being nosey!! You all are pretending to care for MTNs reputation but in truth ya'll being nosey. If you must know. Go to Wajahat Ali Substack page and you'll see why. And when you do don't come here asking that you need more. Enough. If we're smart enough we can infer what happened. And know that that's why MTN severed all relationship with Michael. End this. Let's move on or unsubscribe. It's that simple.
Thanks for deplatforming Cohen, you should talk abt why
No they don't. If you want to know go to Wajahat Ali page here on Substack. There's your answer. Let's move on.
Yup, and Dean & Zev. Kind of an elbow in their faces.
Please tell us what your stance is on cohen. Please be transparent. It's not looking good to keep ignoring it except for the one post
Give it time I’m sure he’ll address it, but I can’t imagine what he’s feeling right now. More than ultimate betrayal by a friend he thought was trying to redeem himself from his past.
Yes but they are attorneys and business people. WE ARE their business and we are owed a statement otherwise they're just like the regime
Maybe give them time to process everything and do their due diligence before they say something that could leave the entire MTN legally exposed and shut down by Cohen and the Trump cabal which have the entire right wing billionaire legal Mafia and courts at their disposal?
I wonder if that was his ultimate goal. Here I go down a conspiracy hole. I get the legal stuff. I get the personal stuff. But I do need a little more from Ron and Ben.
Exactly! Not asking anything they don't ask of others.
Thank you Ben for all you do. Between MTN and Heather Cox Richardson, I feel there is hope in these dismal days.
I'd like to promote Robert Hubbell as well. He's similar to HCR - same type of audience, always provides optimism while being realistic. Same with Simon Rosenberg.
Jeff Teidrich is funny and provides a break of all the doom and misery we are experiencing right now.
Agree! Thanks for adding him. I don't miss any of his posts. He's hilarious & educational at the same time.
Thanks, Ben. I realise this must be difficult, but please inform the MeidasMighty about the Michael Cohen situation - I had to learn about it from Lev Parnas' Substack, and then from Google! It should have come from you guys first.
You really need to comment on Cohen or you risk losing your credibility. We ALL know what’s going on thanks to Lev so now it’s just getting weird that you’re staying silent !
Per our note yesterday: MeidasTouch Network will no longer be producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen. https://substack.com/@meidastouch/note/c-201268400?r=2b8mnr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Are you still going to platform Lev too? He’s just as bad
Dear Still Here.....it's obvious that you haven't listened to Lev. I have great respect for him and his telling the truth about what's going on. Please listen to him with openness. He respects the Meidas Touch and is strongly asking people not to condemn them until we hear from Ben. It must be a real blow to them.
If you listen to Lev you know he has redeemed himself. Listen to all the info he provides, and the congressmen that come onto his substack, and ethical journalists that appear with him.
Shame on you for not stating exactly why he's "just as bad."
Lev is the one that brought a lot of this information out. Why should he be platformed?
He shouldn’t be platformed by MTN but here we are. Lev is a lying sack too! It’s laughable how many people just accept someone bc they hate Trump now. It’s kinda pathetic.
He's the one that brought a lot of this to the attention. I don't "accept someone because they hate Trump". I do have some critical thinking abilities and take a lot of what is said with a grain of salt. And you are entitled to your opinion.
It is Lev who has been fighting for democracy both here and in Ukraine, and telling the truth. Listen to his substacks, because obviously you haven't.
Looks like Trump and Cohen's Trojan horse scheme to divide discredit and conquer the best pro democracy Anti Trump media network is working on the braying social media mob 😒
Lev is shady AF. How did he get into the Trump circle?
He actually is protecting his credibility. If you already know about it, what more needs to be said? They saw what was happening and decided not to platform someone who has been lying the entire time.
What a horrible feeling to betrayed like that!
I disagree! He partners with him and promotes him!! So I believe he should address it, but that’s just my opinion! You keep doing you!
If they had any kind of written agreement or contract with Michael Cohen, then being the good lawyers that they are, they are not saying much in order to protect themselves. I would defer to Lev Parnas For details.
Exactly!! He does need to address it. This is what MT expects of others. Always asking for transparency and then not freely offering it up. BS.
Yup they partnered and promoted MC. You're telling me they just thought he was nice and just got together. Naive much? They should have done better. Disappointed and now nothing??
Oh everyone's an expert with hindsight
An awkward silence
It is weird that they are staying silent. Not a good look!
No! They are quickly trying to end a contract. They are ALL lawyers, how much do you think they can say?
Nope- some people have the capacity to change and make amends. Lev is one of them. Listen to his substack and you will have the proof. he doesn't personally attack people, he doesn't deflect, and he was never close with MC.
before you make a stamens, you should know the history of why Lev attacked Ben, this was the damage left behind by MC! After Lev hosted investigative journalists who had found new evidence about MC and the Trump /Epstein connection, MC tried to triangulate Lev and his son Aaron, through Mideas.
The difference is, that Lev apologized later for his anger, and discussed it with Ben. They made peace. That's conflict resolution. That's someone who has tried to work to better himself.
No such thing with MC.
I want to hear your reason for dropping Michael Cohen please
I support MEIDASTOUCH (Ben and the gang). Katie is a great addition. The YouTube vids Ben and his team produce are timely and on target. Subscribe and share. I often share them with my 27,000 Bluesky followers.
Why the silence around Michael Cohen?
I don’t think there’s been any silence. They’ve announced that Cohen’s not on the platform anymore. I imagine Ben wants us to sink in and I’ll let us know in due time.
I disagree. Silence brings contempt. The longer the silence the more people will fill in the blanks.
Doing Michael's work for him
I’m sitting here with my coffee and sleeping dog taking a break between teaching virtually and internationally. Thanks for the review of the week. This last week made me feel melancholy and of sometimes it’s hard to breathe if I pay attention to the socio-economic and political developments in the US. Have a good day.
Amber, among the hundreds of things that disturb me the most are the inevitable economic consequences of
t-rump’s horrible “deals” plus wiping out jobs due to fear among immigrants and the millions of people already just getting by. I think the goal is to defeat the US economically. And now the “tech bros” have us in their grip. A frightening combination.
Trump is now auditioning for a new NATO submissive to him. For $1,000,000,000 any country that he vets can join his Donato Assembly of Capitulating Nations.
OMG
It's also been reported on AP and others just now that trump wants to send 1500 MILITARY troops into MN. Where the F*** is Congress??? Do they really support sending the military, in violation of posse comitatus, to attack one of our member states! When will congress end this madness? Where are the four republican MN congressmen as their own state is attacked by the government?
As a paid subscriber I would like to know what happened with Michael Cohen. I'm not okay with the short statement that was posted. I never trusted Michael Cohen due to his relationship with Trump.
Please be more forthcoming with information about this issue. I want to maintain trust with MTN.
You all are sounding like freaking robots at this point. Like bots. If you must know what happened your highness, go to Wajahat Ali's Substack page and you'll learn why. And if by that Live you're still not satisfied. Then bye bye 👋. We can't continue beating the same horse. Enough is enough. Let's MOVE ON damn it. We have bigger freaking fish to fry. 😠😤
Everyone has a right to voice their opinions here. That's what makes democracy great. So how about you calm down, stop calling people out and perhaps you move on!! And go fry your fish. Thanks
You're just stoking the fire 🔥. Instead of taking their word for it. And moving on. You want to stick the dagger 🗡.
I’m going with that they are trying to get out of a contract… They are all lawyers. Do you not think they can’t say much?
Then say that. They know how to craft a response that both respects their subscribers and their legal obligations.
Such as: we are legally required to hold off on any comment at this time, other than MC will not be on our network. Please bear with us.
And after trashing James and Bragg, did MC really think Mideas would have him back on????
Totally agree. Thank you!
That may be the case. However, I would expect MTN to state that due to ongoing litigation they can't comment on the situation. Otherwise it leaves us to speculate on what happened and that is never a good thing.