January 17, 2026
*Personal Note: I’m heading to Greenland and Denmark with people I trust and respect deeply: Denver Riggleman, Malcolm Nance, Ken Harbaugh, and the team at The Save America Movement.
This isn’t about noise. It’s about showing up.
Malcolm and Ken are former U.S. military. They’ve served their country with honor, and when democracy and alliances are under pressure, duty doesn’t just disappear. Alongside my friend Jacob Kaarsbo—a former Danish intelligence officer and UN Security Council member—we’ll be in Nuuk and Copenhagen delivering a simple message on behalf of Americans and Canadians:
We see you.
We’re with you.
You’re not alone.
We’ll listen, report, and tell the truth—carefully and responsibly—at a moment when trust between allies actually matters.
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We’re going to Arctic Command. We’re talking to decision-makers and citizens. And we’re carrying another message from long-standing friends:
We’re coming. And we’re all in.
None of this happens without this community. I’m deeply grateful for your trust and support.
Coffee & Tea With Lev and Dean
Michael Cohen Didn’t Flip on Trump. He Flipped on the Truth.
There are no coincidences in American politics anymore. Only timing. And today’s timing was loud.
On “Coffee & Tea with Lev and Dean”, Lev Parnas and I laid out what many people have felt for months but didn’t yet have the connective tissue to say out loud: Michael Cohen has been lying — consistently, strategically, and for personal gain.
Hours later, Cohen surfaced, accusing Alvin Bragg and Letitia James of coercing him into giving misleading or false testimony — testimony that helped underpin the 34-count indictment against Donald Trump and the civil fraud judgment against the Trump Organization.
That alone should have set off alarms. But then the echo chamber kicked in.
Fox News ran with it. Soft questions. Heavy implication. Framing the prosecutors, not the convicted felon, as the problem. And then — predictably, mechanically — Donald Trump picked it up and hurled it across social media, openly floating DOJ investigations into both Bragg and James.
That’s not chaos. That’s choreography.
Michael Cohen didn’t suddenly grow a conscience. He made a move.
Cohen’s public reinvention has always rested on one fragile premise: that he was done lying. That he had paid his price. That the man who once fixed crimes had become someone who exposed them.
But as Lev Parnas explained — calmly, carefully, and without theatrics — that story never matched the man.
Lev has known Michael Cohen for forty years. Not the podcast version. Not the media version. The real one. The pressure guy. The threat guy. The leverage guy. The man who uses people, including families, when he needs to.
What came out on Coffee & Tea today wasn’t gossip. It was context. Context that makes Cohen’s sudden claims not brave, but transactional.
According to Lev and his sources, Cohen is not exposing corruption. He is offering himself up as a tool — again — to help Donald Trump justify retaliation against the prosecutors who finally cornered him. In return? A pardon. A way back into Trump’s orbit. A seat at whatever passes for redemption in that circle.
This isn’t theoretical. This is how Trump’s world works. Loyalty for leniency. Narrative for protection.
And Cohen knows that better than anyone.
What makes this moment especially dangerous isn’t just the attempted reputational hit on Bragg and James. It’s what Cohen’s maneuver is designed to distract from.
Epstein.
Multiple panelists on today’s show — including Zev Shalev, THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali and Brian Krassenstein — reached the same conclusion independently: Michael Cohen is complicit in the ongoing effort to keep the Epstein files buried.
Not because he’s named on every page. But because he knows where the bodies are, who overlaps with whom, and how damaging full disclosure would be to the people he’s once again trying to ingratiate himself with.
That matters even more in light of the reporting broken today by Aaron Parnas who revealed a DOJ filing stating plainly that the department does not intend to turn over any of the Epstein files.
Read that again. None.
Now line up the timeline:
Cohen turns on the prosecutors.
Fox News amplifies it.
Trump threatens investigations.
DOJ signals a full Epstein blackout.
Still think this is random?
Cohen’s defenders will say he’s being smeared. That this is retaliation for speaking truth to power. That questioning him somehow helps Trump.
That argument collapses the moment you look at outcomes instead of rhetoric.
Who benefits from Cohen’s claims? Not accountability. Not victims. Not the rule of law.
Donald Trump benefits.
Cohen’s allegations give Trump a pretext to call his prosecutions illegitimate. They soften the ground for vengeance. They shift the conversation away from evidence and toward conspiracy. And they provide a familiar utility player — Michael Cohen — to launder the message through someone who once had credibility with Trump’s critics.
That credibility is gone now.
And let’s be honest about the Substack grift too. Thousands of subscribers paid for insight, truth, and supposed transparency. What they got instead was a carefully maintained persona that hid continued self-interest and ongoing manipulation. That’s not a political disagreement. That’s consumer fraud by another name.
Lev didn’t expose this because it was convenient. He did it because he was tired of watching people be misled by a man who has never stopped operating exactly as he always has.
Michael Cohen didn’t flip on Trump.
He flipped on the people who believed he had flipped.
He’s not a whistleblower. He’s a broker. He’s not breaking a story. He’s shopping one. And the currency is justice — traded away piece by piece for personal absolution.
Words are cheap. Especially from professional liars.
Actions matter. And today, Michael Cohen’s actions told the truth louder than anything he’s said in years.
There are no coincidences.
Thank you God, Ellie Leonard, Nick Paro, Cat, Story Carrier, and many others for tuning into my live video with Krassenstein, THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali, Zev Shalev, Lev Parnas, Lyudmila Piker, Philip Ittner, Oleksandr Bolbirer, and Cheech Previti! Join me for my next live video in the app.
