Political Beatdown Full Episode 4/1/2025

Political Beatdown with Michael Cohen and Ben Meiselas

MeidasTouch Network

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Michael Cohen and Ben Meiselas discuss Trump's disaster tariffs that are set to go into place tomorrow, Senator Cory Bookers Senate Floor Speech, and continued legal losses for Trump in court. This and more on a NEW episode of Political Beatdown. Head to https://Smalls.com/BEAT and use promo code: BEAT at checkout for 50% off your first order PLUS free shipping! Subscribe to Michael Cohen's NEW Channel for daily episodes! https://www.youtube.com/@TheMichaelCohenShow/featured Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalBeatdown Add the NEW Mea Culpa podcast feed: https://linktr.ee/meaculpapod Support Michael’s Legal Fund: http://donald4prison.com Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Political beatdown. I'm Ben Myselish, joined by Michael Cohen. Earlier today, the Atlanta Federal Reserve
0:09.5	once again adjusted its GDP estimates for Q1 down. Today it stands at negative 3.7% for the first quarter. For those keeping track, eight weeks ago,
0:24.6	the same Atlanta Fed was predicting that GDP for quarter one, if Trump just did nothing,
0:31.2	would be 3.9% growth. Four weeks ago, it was 2.3% growth. Last week, negative 2.8%. Today, it stands at negative
0:43.0	3.7%. Michael Cohen, here is how Fox is trying to message this, that what the Trump regime
0:50.2	needs to say to the American people is that we're at war and that in wars you have to make
0:56.2	sacrifice because this is a war and an invasion. Listen to Harris Faulkner in her own words. Let's play it.
1:02.3	And those 401K people who were depending, those retirees, all of that, just talking Plainspeak
1:08.2	with them. Look, when this nation used to go to war, people in this
1:12.3	country would support the war effort with their materials at home and making things for
1:17.7	weaponry and all of that. We got to do 100% buy-in over this bumpy period. Just communicate.
1:23.6	I want to show you this yesterday. Here's the problem, Ben.
1:29.4	Before we jump on, here's the problem.
1:31.1	It's self-inflicted.
1:33.2	That's the problem here.
1:36.1	Can you read those numbers again?
1:39.5	Had this jerk off done nothing?
1:41.3	Had nobody listened to- 10% growth.
1:43.0	He could have stayed in Mar-a-Lago, taken credit for former President Biden's economy.
1:48.0	It would have been 3.9% growth.
1:51.0	Now we're negative 3.7%.
1:54.0	We're in a contraction mode.
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