MeidasTouch Network announced Saturday it has ended its relationship with former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen after Cohen said he felt “pressured and coerced” to give testimony that helped prosecutors pursue cases against President Donald Trump in New York.
“Programming note: MeidasTouch Network will no longer be producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen,” the company wrote on X.
Cohen, once a close ally of Trump and later one of his loudest critics, was a key witness in two high-profile New York matters. In a Substack post published Friday, he accused New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of focusing on evidence aimed at targeting Trump, and of dismissing testimony that didn’t support their preferred storyline.
Cohen responded to MeidasTouch’s decision in a Substack post published Sunday, saying his work will continue even without the network.
“My podcasts and shows will continue, but they will no longer air on the network of three brothers I came to call my own. That is not a phrase I use lightly. I mean it. Losing that partnership feels like losing family,” Cohen wrote.
He argued that his criticism is rooted in personal experience with the justice system.
“The headlines did not do the post justice so I ask you to read it. But my position has never wavered. I criticize the system because I was brutalized by it. More than once. That criticism comes from scars, not slogans. Regardless of who you are, justice must remain blind and equal to all,” he said.
Cohen also pushed back on claims that he spoke out in hopes of receiving a pardon.
“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,” he wrote.
Cohen testified in a civil fraud case brought by James’ office in 2023, where Trump was found liable for inflating his assets to obtain favorable loan terms. He also testified in Bragg’s criminal case in 2024, where Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
In Friday’s Substack post, Cohen claimed he was steered toward testimony that supported prosecutors’ goals.
“I felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump,” Cohen wrote.
He alleged James and Bragg used the cases to boost their profiles, saying they sought credit as officials who “took down Trump.” He insisted he was not writing to defend the president.
“You may reasonably ask why I am speaking out now. The answer is simple. I have witnessed firsthand the damage done when prosecutors pick their target first and then seek evidence to fit a predetermined narrative,” Cohen wrote.
Trump responded Friday with a post on Truth Social, calling the cases a “SET UP” and attacking what he described as “Radical Left people.”
“These horrible Radical Left people, doing everything possible to destroy our Country, should pay a big price for this! It was a SET UP from the beginning. New York Courts, with many fair and wonderful Judges, are embarrassed by what has happened! We cannot let this pass,” Trump wrote.
Cohen previously pleaded guilty in 2018 to multiple federal crimes, including campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and lying to Congress.
