Podcast appearances and mentions of David Cay Johnston

David Cay Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.From July 2011 until September 2012 he was a columnist for Reuters, writing, and producing video commentaries, on worldwide issues of tax, accounting, economics, public finance and business. Johnston is the board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has also written for Al Jazeera Englishand Americain recent years. Johnston is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at College of Lawand the Whitman School of Managementat Syracuse University.Johnston is the author of best-selling books on tax and economic policy. Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, is about hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and corporate socialism. It follows his earlier book Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everybody Else, a New York Times bestseller on the U.S. tax system that won the Investigative Reporters and Editors 2003 Book of the Year award.Johnston's first book, the 1992 Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business is an account of how the junk-bond kings usurped mob control of the casino industry in the 1980s. The book discusses corruption in the industry and the role of the federal and state governments in that corruption.In 2014 Johnston released Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality. Cay Johnston shows most Americans, in inflation-adjusted terms, are now back to the average income of 1966. Post-recession (from 2009 to 2011) the top one percent of households took in 121 percent of the income gains while the bottom 99 percent saw their incomes fall.In 2016, Johnston released The Making of Donald Trump, a journalistic account of the rise of businessperson-turned-presidential candidate Donald Trump. At the time he wrote the book, Johnston had known Trump for 28 years. The book was on the New York Times bestseller list.Published in 2018 is It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America, an investigative piece that details actions taken by Trump and his appointees at the departmental level, and how these actions affect Americans' rights and civil protections.Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business (1992) ISBN 978-0-385-41920-8Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else (2003) ISBN 1-59184-019-8Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill (2007) ISBN 978-1-59184-191-3The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind (2012) ISBN 978-1-591-84358-0Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality (2014) ISBN 9781620970850, 1620970856The Making of Donald Trump (2016) ISBN 978-1612196329It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America (2018) ISBN 9781501174162The Enforcers : How little-known trade reporters exposed the Keating Five and advanced business journalism (2019) ISBN 9780252042942Social security works for everyone! : protecting and expanding the insurance Americans love and count on (2021) ISBN 9781620976227, 1620976226The Big Cheat : How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family (2022) ISBN 9781982187903, 19821879051982187903, 1982187905Books Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Trump made an early and hasty exit from the G7 Summit in Canada as he warned anyone in Tehran, Iran to get out. The warning echoed similar calls from Israeli leaders to evacuate Tehran, possibly signaling that a large attack is imminent. Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author David Cay Johnston joins us to talk about world events.Pulizer Prize winning historian and author Steven Hahn joins to discuss his book “Illiberal America.”Quoting from the book description on Amazon, “If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again.” In Illiberal America, Steven Hahn “uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep-seated in the American past as the founding ideals.” This should be a fascinating conversation. The Mark Thompson Show 6/17/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

My interview with DCJ begins at 36 mins Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more David Cay Johnston  books are as important to my understanding on American Tax Policy, economics and how our system is rigged by rich elites for rich elites as anything else I have read  David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author. The Washington Monthly called him as “one of America's most important journalists.” The Portland Oregonian said his work equals the original muckrakers: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens. Johnston met Donald Trump in 1988 and in April 1990 revealed that Trump's was no billionaire. When Trump announced his latest run for the White House in June 2015, Johnston was the only nationally-known journalist who immediately said Trump was serious this time and might get the GOP nomination. His reporting over the next year led to the Making of Donald Trump, published around the world in English and German on August 2, 2016, by Melville House. The San Jose Mercury recruited Johnston when he was just 18 years old because of his reporting for two small weekly newspapers in Santa Cruz, Calif. At age 19 The Mercury hired him as a staff writer. Within weeks his byline made the front page. Over the next four decades his award-winning investigations appeared in that paper, the Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times. Since 2009 Johnston has taught the business regulation, property and tax law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law. He previously taught writing, reporting and magazine writing at the University of Southern California and UCLA Extension. He has lectured on four continents about journalistic techniques, ethics, legal theory and tax policy. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

A full U.S. Marine battalion, comprised of more than 700 Marines, is now mobilized to respond to the deportation protests in Los Angeles. Though Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have both called for Trump not to use the California National Guard, some of 4000 guardsmen have also been activated. In order for members of the military to make arrests, Trump would need to invoke the Insurrection Act. So far, the military members may be an intimidating show of force against protesters, but they cannot take on law-enforcement duties. Why is Trump crossing this line? We will ask Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and the author David Cay Johnston.Author Kyra Davis Lurie will stop by. She is a New York Times best selling author and screenwriter. Her new book, The Great Man, released today, is her first historical fiction novel. In this retelling of The Great Gatsby, the story is set among L.A.'s black elite. It's Tech Tuesday and our Jefferson Graham has some thoughts about newly released features coming to the next iPhones.The Mark Thompson Show 6/10/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com 

Trump is working GOP Senators hard with phone calls and promises in order to get support for his so called Big Beautiful Bill. Though it narrowly passed in the House, moderates and far right-conservatives in the Senate are a big question mark. Republicans are already seeing some pushback after Elon Musk expressed disappointment in the debt this bill will bring. We'll talk about all of it with Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston. A new take on an old mystery from the days of the Civil War. Author Andrew Sillen discusses his book “Kidnapped at Sea.” Tech Tuesday brings Jefferson Graham to the show with a preview of Apple's developer conference next week.The Mark Thompson Show 6/3/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

The Art of Value: Politics host JJ reacts to and discusses part of some recent interviews with experts on authoritarianism, fascism, and Donald Trump. Timothy Snyder, Anne Applebaum, and David Cay Johnston. discuss the current rise of authoritarianism in the United Sates and how many people are struggling to come to terms with that reality.Related episodes:Comparison: Trump's America vs 1930s Fascist Germanyhttps://youtu.be/GaaGnRVz3yEWe Need to Talk About Fighting Fascism in America!https://youtu.be/fbsWSAXenSEICE: Trump's Gestapo in 21st Century Fascist Americahttps://youtu.be/WhR1nuQV9jgTrump Official Aiming to Suspend Your Constitutional Righthttps://youtu.be/fXtQ0zt8l2wReferenced videos:Jamie Raskin, Tim Snyder and David Cay Johnston on Trump's dangerous authoritarian dictatorship https://youtu.be/7-WLiQOW8sMProf. Tim Snyder on Trump tyranny and how people can stand up to fascism. https://youtu.be/idBWUEup_rgAnne Applebaum and the Most Corrupt Presidency in American History | The David Frum Show https://youtu.be/cpU26qBcBuwTrump Breaks America, Voters Yawn? (w/ Anne Applebaum) | Focus Group https://youtu.be/15k3paCFDYg

The Art of Value: Politics host JJ reacts to and discusses part of some recent interviews with experts on authoritarianism, fascism, and Donald Trump. Timothy Snyder, Anne Applebaum, and David Cay Johnston. discuss the current rise of authoritarianism in the United Sates and how many people are struggling to come to terms with that reality.Related episodes:Comparison: Trump's America vs 1930s Fascist Germanyhttps://youtu.be/GaaGnRVz3yEWe Need to Talk About Fighting Fascism in America!https://youtu.be/fbsWSAXenSEICE: Trump's Gestapo in 21st Century Fascist Americahttps://youtu.be/WhR1nuQV9jgTrump Official Aiming to Suspend Your Constitutional Righthttps://youtu.be/fXtQ0zt8l2wReferenced videos:Jamie Raskin, Tim Snyder and David Cay Johnston on Trump's dangerous authoritarian dictatorship https://youtu.be/7-WLiQOW8sMProf. Tim Snyder on Trump tyranny and how people can stand up to fascism. https://youtu.be/idBWUEup_rgAnne Applebaum and the Most Corrupt Presidency in American History | The David Frum Show https://youtu.be/cpU26qBcBuwTrump Breaks America, Voters Yawn? (w/ Anne Applebaum) | Focus Group https://youtu.be/15k3paCFDYg

While House Speaker Mike Johnson may conveniently not know anything about Trump's crypto dinner, but the New York Times managed to get a hold of the guest list. More than 200 big spenders paid an average of $1.8 million each to attend a dinner with food that reportedly tasted like cardboard. The meme coin winners were served small portions of food described as dull and beverages that included either water or Trump-branded wine. As for the attendees, many of them are big players in the crypto industry, there were a few sports celebrities, including basketball star Lamar Odom, who is starting his own crypto coin. Many tried to stay out of pictures amid a growing security concern among crypto investors. Trump spent time with the top 25 investors and the rest found themselves disappointed. Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Vladimir Putin, who launched another attack on Ukraine, even as an effort for a cease-fire in peace, talks continueWe'll talk about all of it with Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston.Trump is threatening to raise tariffs on Apple products unless more manufacturing is done in the United States. Jefferson Graham joins us on this Tech Tuesday to explore whether that's feasible.Oh, and Mark Thompson is back in the big chair! The Mark Thompson Show 5/27/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

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While Republicans are bickering about the extent of cuts to America's safety net programs for the poorest among us, they are also concerned about tax cuts, increasing debt ceilings and numbers that may indicate debt that will plague generations to come.We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston to discuss the nations debt, where we stand with tariffs and much more.Mark sat down with Yale history professor Greg Grandin to explore his new book “America, América.” It's a deep look at what our American ideals have always been and where and why we seem to have fallen shortAre we raising our kids to be kind and ready for a diverse world. In this new anti-DEI landscspe, how can we do better. Mark speaks with psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Sweeney, author of “Culturally Competent Kids: Raising Children to Thrive in a Diverse World.”It's Tech Tuesday. Jefferson Graham, former USA Today technology columnist, will join us to talk about the future of Google.The Mark Thompson Show 5/20/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Donald Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. are about to rake in large sums of money by taking their American Bitcoin mining firm public on the Nasdaq exchange. The company is merging with Gryphon Digital Mining in an all-stock merger. As the Trump administration announces the framework of a tariff deal with China, Chinese President Xi Xinping appears to be sidestepping Trump and looking to smooth trade relations with South American countries while denouncing bullying and isolationism. We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author David Cay Johnston to the show to discuss it all.Jefferson Graham returns for Tech Tuesday. He'll take a look at Apple's fall pricing and whether tariffs are expected to have an effect.The Mark Thompson Show 5/13/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Four-Star Generals and Admirals are next in line to face DOGE. Pete Hegseth reportedly wants a 20% cut to the U.S. military. That includes active duty military brass and general officers in the National Guard. He's calling the move “Less Generals, more GIs.”The new Prime Minister of Canada will be at the White House today, working on a trade agreement with Trump. Already, some Trump allies, like Howard Lutnick, are calling Canada socialist and  casting doom on the meeting before it even starts. .We'll run it all past our friend and Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston. There's a new organization called Nature is Non-partisan working to bring people of different political ideologies together in support of shared environmental ideals. From hunters to tree huggers, the goal is to protect the planet. We have Meg Haywood Sullivan stopping by to give us details. The Mark Thompson Show 5/6/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

You know it's bad for Trump when Karl Rove appears on Fox saying Trump is in very bad shape in regards to his mismanagement of the economy. Rove says Trump is not only in trouble with voters in the short term but in the long run too, even if he gets his way on tariffs. Rove says recent polls show Americans are angry about how Trump has managed taxpayers' money.Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston will join us to discuss this and more. What role did Trump play in Canada‘s election yesterday? The country took a turn toward progressive ideas. We'll talk to journalist, author and professor Andrew Z. Cohen about Trump‘s impact on international politics.The Mark Thompson Show 4/29/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

After embarrassing the Trump administration and the Department of Defense multiple times with the careless treatment of America's most sensitive secrets, there are reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is being replaced. NPR quotes an anonymous source as saying the White House is already trying to find someone else for the job. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt calls it “fake news”We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston to discuss We'll talk tariffs and a faltering economy with Michael Hiltzik, an award winning journalist with  the LA Times.The Mark Thompson Show 4/22/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

My conversation with DCJ starts at 44 minutes Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more David Cay Johnston  books are as important to my understanding on American Tax Policy, economics and how our system is rigged by rich elites for rich elites as anything else I have read  David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author. The Washington Monthly called him as “one of America's most important journalists.” The Portland Oregonian said his work equals the original muckrakers: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens. Johnston met Donald Trump in 1988 and in April 1990 revealed that Trump's was no billionaire. When Trump announced his latest run for the White House in June 2015, Johnston was the only nationally-known journalist who immediately said Trump was serious this time and might get the GOP nomination. His reporting over the next year led to the Making of Donald Trump, published around the world in English and German on August 2, 2016, by Melville House. The San Jose Mercury recruited Johnston when he was just 18 years old because of his reporting for two small weekly newspapers in Santa Cruz, Calif. At age 19 The Mercury hired him as a staff writer. Within weeks his byline made the front page. Over the next four decades his award-winning investigations appeared in that paper, the Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times. Since 2009 Johnston has taught the business regulation, property and tax law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law. He previously taught writing, reporting and magazine writing at the University of Southern California and UCLA Extension. He has lectured on four continents about journalistic techniques, ethics, legal theory and tax policy. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

Universities threatened, NGOs and media outlets targeted, US overseas agencies shut. The Trump administration has taken drastic action against hundreds of organisations. Why is this happening and what does it mean for the US and its global standing? In this episode: David Cay Johnston, Author of three books on Donald Trump and professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Ryan Enos, Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University. Shannan Adler, Host of the political show 'The Shannan Show' and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism, Ethics and Interactive Media at Emerson College Host: Dareen Abughaida Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

The U.S. District Court Judge overseeing the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration in what they claim was an administrative error, wants to know what Trump officials have done so far to facilitate his return to the United States. Judge Paula Xinis says the Supreme Court has spoken on the matter and she is now ordering the testimony of four Trump administration from ICE, Homeland Security and the State Department. We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston to the show. We are taking the pulse of our environment with eco-journalist Belinda Waymouth. She joins us for “It's the Planet, Stupid!”

As if Trump's tariff fallout isn't bad enough, now he is threatening China and they are having none of it.  China announced plans to retaliate against Trump's tariff with a matching 34% tariff against the U.S. Trump claims that if China retaliates, he will raise their tariff to 50%. China is calling Trumps posturing a mistake on top of a mistake as the trade war escalates, markets crash and investors panic. Pulitzer Prize winning author David Cay Johnston joins with a unique perspective about both Trump and the economy. Tech Tuesday brings Jefferson Graham by the show to talk about the latest in gadgets and gear.The Mark Thompson Show 4/8/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

President Trump is telling the media he is the most successful president in history. Traffic at the southern border is down, but some costs remain high. Doge seems to be backfiring and lawsuits are flying over some of his executive orders. Plus, there is a lot of anxiety when it comes to the markets. Is doing a lot more important than doing a lot the right way? We have a poll up this morning asking whether you think Trump has been a successful president so far, based on whether he has done what he has set out to do well or whether he has not done it well. We welcome former ABC White House correspondent Jim Avila to talk about the situation at the border and And Weather deporting criminals is worth the risk of deporting people who have done nothing wrong, and the even bigger risk of disregarding our Constitution.Mark recently sat down with Mike Papantonio. He is an attorney, Podcaster and the author of a new thriller called Middle Man. Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston stops by. We will ask him about senators from both sides of the aisle lining up against Trump'tariffs on Canada. It is Tech Tuesday and that brings Jefferson Graham by the show. He'll talk AI and takes a look at reviews of the latest version of Alexa. The Mark Thompson Show 4/1/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

The incompetence shown by Trump's cabinet members and Vice President is staggering. A group text message on the Signal platform accidentally included a reporter along with Vice President Vance and Secretaries Hegseth, Rubio, Gabbard, National Security Advisor Waltz and more discussing pending military actions. No one checked the text group list or thought to take the conversation to a secure government platform before sharing military operational details. Former national security adviser John Bolton says while Signal is encrypted, it is not equivalent to U.S. government secure telecommunications. Planning military strikes via text puts American military members at risk.  Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called for “accountability for a screw-up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people every day on television for sport.”  Republican Senator John Cornryn called it a huge screw up and Senator Susan Collins said it was inconceivable to her.  There are now calls for an investigation. We will ask Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative reporter David Cay Johnston about this and so much more.It is Tech Tuesday on The Mark Thompson Show. Jefferson Graham joins to share details about the Signal platform, take a look at whether it's safe to travel if the government tries to access your phone and what the bankruptcy of 23 & me could mean for you. The Mark Thompson Show 3/25/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Trump says he's releasing an unredated 80,000 pages that will bring information to light about the murder of President John F. Kennedy. For Trump, declassifying the JFK assassination file is a campaign promise. We welcome journalist and author David Dayen. Much of his work shines a light on corporate greed, certainly relevant in Trump's so called Golden Age. Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative reporter David Cay Johnston stops by to talk politics. The Mark Thompson Show 3/18/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Trump could have used his appearance on Fox over the weekend to calm and reassure nervous investors but instead he ratcheted up the anxiety. After a back-and-forth - now he will, now he won't - tariff policy with Canada and Mexico and financial markets across the world reacting badly, economists tell The Guardian, the risk of a Trumpsession is getting bigger.Branco Marcetic will stop by the show. He is a journalist, investigative reporter and author. Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston joins us to talk politics. Tech Tuesdsay brings Jefferson Graham to The Mark Thompson with a look at Apple's latest and the best gadgets The Mark Thompson Show 3/11/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Today, Trump‘s high tariffs against Canada and Mexico will kick in. Trump insists they will help Americans but experts like billionaire investor Warren Buffett say tariffs are an “act of war to some degree.” CBS News asked Buffet whether tariffs will impact inflation and he said: "Over time, they are a tax on goods. I mean, the Tooth Fairy doesn't pay 'em! And then what? You always have to ask that question in economics. You always say, 'And then what?'"Meanwhile, America has a new crypto reserve and crypto markets are thriving under Trump. We'll talk to journalist Michael Hiltzik from the LA Times about what putting faith in crypto could mean for the economy. Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston will join us to talk politics.Tech Tuesday brings Jefferson Graham by the show to talk about Amazon‘s new Alexa+ and the new MacBook Air.The Mark Thompson Show 3/4/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Presidents Trump and Macron, of France, shook hands and seemed to get along at the White House yesterday, save for a tense moment when the topic of Ukraine came up. Trump got details of European funding for Ukraine wrong and Macron put his hand on Trump in a gentle - let me explain it to you - gesture all as cameras snapped away. Who exactly is running Doge? A federal judge is pressing the Trump administration for details amid her concerns Doge may be operating in an unconstitutional manner. We welcome the brilliant Pulizer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston to the show to discuss.There is a new iPhone upon us. On this Tech Tuesday, Jefferson Graham will stop by to tell us the pros and cons.The Mark Thompson Show 2/25/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

This Presidents' Day, thousands protested Trump & Musk's government overhaul. Plus, the DOGE team is demanding access to taxpayer data and mass layoffs continue as the White House prepares to fire DHS officials. And, the latest updates on the Delta plane that crashed and overturned on landing at the Toronto Airport. Jacqueline Alemany, Melanie Zanona, Tom Nichols, David Cay Johnston, Zoë Schiffer, Tim Miller, Teddy Schleifer, and Jon Meacham join The 11th Hour this Monday.

In what may be the kiss-up of all kiss-ups, a Republican lawmaker is trying to make Trump's birthday a national holiday. It's on June 14th, already designated as Flag Day in the U.S. so Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, of New York,  introduced “Trump's Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act.”  It would “permanently codify” June 14th as a federal holiday called “Trump's Birthday and Flag Day.” Pulizer Prize winning author and investigative reporter David Cay Johnston will stop by to talk politics. We'll check in with Dr. Michael Daignault about escalating cases of the flu and measles. The Mark Thompson Show 2/18/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more GET TICKETS TO PODJAM II In Vegas March 27-30 Confirmed Guests! Professor Eric Segall, Dr Aaron Carroll, Maura Quint, Tim Wise, JL Cauvin, Ophira Eisenberg, Christian Finnegan and More! 35 mins David Cay Johnston  David Cay Johnston  books are as important to my understanding on American Tax Policy, economics and how our system is rigged by rich elites for rich elites as anything else I have read  David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author. The Washington Monthly called him as “one of America's most important journalists.” The Portland Oregonian said his work equals the original muckrakers: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens. Johnston met Donald Trump in 1988 and in April 1990 revealed that Trump's was no billionaire. When Trump announced his latest run for the White House in June 2015, Johnston was the only nationally-known journalist who immediately said Trump was serious this time and might get the GOP nomination. His reporting over the next year led to the Making of Donald Trump, published around the world in English and German on August 2, 2016, by Melville House. The San Jose Mercury recruited Johnston when he was just 18 years old because of his reporting for two small weekly newspapers in Santa Cruz, Calif. At age 19 The Mercury hired him as a staff writer. Within weeks his byline made the front page. Over the next four decades his award-winning investigations appeared in that paper, the Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times. Since 2009 Johnston has taught the business regulation, property and tax law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law. He previously taught writing, reporting and magazine writing at the University of Southern California and UCLA Extension. He has lectured on four continents about journalistic techniques, ethics, legal theory and tax policy. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Feb. 13, 2025, investigative journalist David Cay Johnston joins us to share his thoughts on the beginning of President Trump's second term.

He hasn't been confirmed as the Director of the FBI yet, but it seems Kash Patel has taken it upon himself to kick certain FBI leaders out of their jobs. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has "highly credible information" that Patel orchestrated the firings at the FBI and lied during confirmation hearing testimony by denying any knowledge of the purge. Will it keep him from being confirmed? We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston to discuss this and much more. Presidential historian and political analyst John Rothmann will swing by to talk politics. Eco-journalist Belinda Waymouth will bring us details on Trump's love for plastic straws and a directive for NOAA scientists not to talk to scientists from other countries. Join us for “It's the Planet, Stupid!”

There is grave concern that Elon Musk has snatched control of the US Treasury and USAID away from elected officials. His access to the private information of millions of Americans along with intelligence reports is troublesome to say the least. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is one of many sounding the alarm saying, “Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security”.We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author David Cay Johnston to the show to talk about the position in which America now finds itself.Science and medicine have already taken a huge hit during Trump's first month on the job. The CDC is now unable to release medical information that doctors around the country count on to help treat patients. Scientific Studies and data are being put on the back burner. Emergency medicine specialist, Dr. Michael Diagnault, will discuss. It's Tech Tuesday on The Mark Thompson Show. Former USA Today tech columnist Jefferson Graham will look at some amazing new AI tools and discuss Apple's foray into the darker side of the Internet. The Mark Thompson Show 2/4/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

The Trump administration is moving to assume more control of the federal purse strings. Yesterday, Trump's budget office froze all federal financial assistance. From food stamps to foreign aid, it's all on pause. The only exceptions are Social Security and Medicare. The reason given in the official order? It appears to be a move to counter so called “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies.” We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston. Overnight, Deepseek became a big story. We'll ask Jefferson Graham to weigh in on the rapid success of this company that is shaking up the tech world. The Mark Thompson Show 1/28/25 Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshow Maybe you're more into PayPal. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24 And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

The people who mounted an attack on American Democracy, tried to steal the voice of the people by interrupting certification of the vote, smashed our nation's capitol building and left it smeared with bodily fluids, attacked Capitol police and left them mentally shaken to the point of self harm, and threatened the lives of our elected representatives…they all just got  big fat pardon from Trump. In a disgusting anti-American display, Trump ordered “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”About 1,500 were pardoned, including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who had been convicted of seditious conspiracy against America. We'll dive deep into this with Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author David Cay Johnston. The Mark Thompson Show 1/21/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Had Attorney General Merrick Garland moved faster, there's a pretty good chance that now President-elect Donald Trump would be facing serious consequences in the 2020 election interference case. The report by Special Council Jack Smith was released early today and indicates that Smith had enough evidence to convict Trump. Smith also writes that Trump‘s reelection and Constitutional protections for presidents make it impossible to move forward with the prosecution of that case. Smith also wrote that evidence shows the January 6th Capitol attack was Trump's doing. We will welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston to the show.We'll check in on Southern California as a new fire in Ventura County cropped up in strong winds yesterday. New data indicates the Los Angeles fires may be the most expensive disaster in American history. Tech Tuesday brings Jefferson Graham by to talk about the latest gadgets.The Mark Thompson Show 1/15/25Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

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The GOP relies on lies, because what they are really selling is making the rich richer. This is why the right wing always opposes fact checking and even real news that deals in facts at all.Plus- Thom reads from "The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family" by David Cay Johnston.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

President Elect Donald Trump is attempting to prevent the release of the final report by the special counsel investigating his actions, particularly related to the January 6 Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump's legal team has filed a motion in court, arguing that the special counsel's findings contain inaccuracies and should not be made public. The move is part of his broader strategy to challenge the legal proceedings and avoid the potential political and reputational fallout from the report's findings.

Professor David Cay Johnston returns to The Weekend Show to discuss how media coverage of Trump needs to change in light of the raised temperature, terrorism and threats of mass deportation - and the risks to democracy by a complicit corporate media. DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS! Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar per month trial at https://shopify.com/weekend Join this channel for exclusive access and bonus content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbwLFZhawBqK2b9gW08z3g/join Five Minute News with Anthony Davis is an Evergreen Podcast, covering politics, inequality, health and climate - delivering independent, unbiased and essential news for the US and across the world. Visit us online at http://www.fiveminute.news Follow us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/fiveminutenews.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/fiveminnews Support us on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/fiveminutenews You can subscribe to Five Minute News with your preferred podcast app, ask your smart speaker, or enable Five Minute News as your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing skill. Please subscribe HERE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbwLFZhawBqK2b9gW08z3g?sub_confirmation=1 CONTENT DISCLAIMER The views and opinions expressed on this channel are those of the guests and authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Anthony Davis or Five Minute News LLC. Any content provided by our guests or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pulitzer Prize winning-investigative reporter and Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, David Cay Johnston, joins Anthony Davis to discuss the incoming Trump regime and its expected disruption to the world order, his economic malpractice and the cultural shift towards authoritarianism - only on The Weekend Show. DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS! Cook Unity: Go to https://cookunity.com/WEEKEND or enter code: WEEKEND before checkout for 50% OFF your first week! SUPPORT THE SHOW! Subscribe to Five Minute News on Patreon for exclusive members only videos, live Q&A and more: http://www.patreon.com/fiveminutenews Visit Five Minute News online and subscribe at http://www.fiveminute.news Follow Five Minute News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/fiveminnews Follow Five Minute News on Instagram: http://instagram.com/fiveminnews Subscribe to Five Minute News on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/fiveminutenews Five Minute News with Anthony Davis is an Evergreen Podcast, covering politics, inequality, health and climate - delivering independent, unbiased and essential world news, daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Trump says “Make America Great Again” does he mean great like in size? In recent days, Trump has resurrected the idea of buying Greenland from Denmark. Greenland, by the way, says they're not interested. He's also threatening to take away the Panama Canal from Panama. Perhaps, Trump intends to amass more American land because real estate deals are the one thing he knows something about. We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston to the show to discuss this and more. Jefferson Graham will join us for Tech Tuesday. He'll tell us the tricks to get your gadgets back if they get lost. It's a big holiday movie week, So we welcome Michael Snyder in a special Mark Thompson Show appearance. He'll talk about some of the movies out in theaters over the holidays.

Trump appears to be feeling more sure footed in his desire to go after media companies.  His $15 million settlement win with ABC came after a lawsuit he filed over reporting on the E. Jean Carroll civil sexual assault case, where Trump was found legally liable but not convicted criminally. Now, he's looking at other media outlets he feels have wronged him and those grudges go way back. We'll ask Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston whether the next four years will put media companies on edge and put the ability of reporters to speak the truth at risk. The Mark Thompson Show 12/17/24Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls 10 mins The Important Headlines and Clips 35 mins David Cay Johnston  David Cay Johnston  books are as important to my understanding on American Tax Policy, economics and how our system is rigged by rich elites for rich elites as anything else I have read  David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author. The Washington Monthly called him as “one of America's most important journalists.” The Portland Oregonian said his work equals the original muckrakers: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and Lincoln Steffens. Johnston met Donald Trump in 1988 and in April 1990 revealed that Trump's was no billionaire. When Trump announced his latest run for the White House in June 2015, Johnston was the only nationally-known journalist who immediately said Trump was serious this time and might get the GOP nomination. His reporting over the next year led to the Making of Donald Trump, published around the world in English and German on August 2, 2016, by Melville House. The San Jose Mercury recruited Johnston when he was just 18 years old because of his reporting for two small weekly newspapers in Santa Cruz, Calif. At age 19 The Mercury hired him as a staff writer. Within weeks his byline made the front page. Over the next four decades his award-winning investigations appeared in that paper, the Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times. Since 2009 Johnston has taught the business regulation, property and tax law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law. He previously taught writing, reporting and magazine writing at the University of Southern California and UCLA Extension. He has lectured on four continents about journalistic techniques, ethics, legal theory and tax policy. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.   Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete

From his Ivy League education to his so-called manifesto, there are new details about the alleged shooter of United Health CEO Brian Thompson. Plus, some people are so annoyed with the McDonald's worker that ratted out the alleged shooter that they have taken to pummeling the restaurant's online ratings. Liz Cheney is responding to claims from Trump that she should be locked up for her congressional investigation of the January 6th insurrection. The group that overthrew Syria's Bashar Al Assad is might have their designation as a terrorist organization removed. What makes them a terrorist organization one day, but not the next? Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston will join us to discuss it all. Tech Tuesday brings Jefferson Graham to the show. The former writer for USA today and now host of photo walks TV on YouTube always has details on the latest in demand gadget. The Mark Thompson Show 12/10/24Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com

Trump's choice to oversee the Pentagon couldn't even oversee a couple nonprofits. The New Yorker reports Pete Hegseth was forced to step down from both Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America because of  “serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.” Add that to a rape allegation and a now public letter from his mother in which she made her embarrassment of and disappointment in him clear, and Pete Hegseth is looking like Trump's latest failure. We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, and author David Cay Johnston to the show to discuss that and more. Boxes full of tech gadgets keep arriving at Jefferson Graham's house. We'll check in with him on this Tech Tuesday to see what he is recommending for your holiday gift list.The Mark Thompson Show 12/3/24Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com#Trump #Hegseth #DavidCayJohnston #Biden #Pardon #HunterBiden #PresidentBiden #Politics #Political #PoliticalAnalysis #Confirmations #Senate #House #BackgroundChecks #ElonMusk #TechTuesday #JeffersonGraham #Apple #Google

The effort to seat Trump's incoming cabinet is a wild, chaotic, cash filled scramble. From dark money infiltrating the process and selling access to the president-elect to word that his confidants are jockeying so hard for influence that it's led to physical confrontations, Trump's second time around is not a smooth process. We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston to discuss this and more. Kamala Harris's team speaks.Tech Tuesday brings Jefferson Graham by to share his “Tech Turkeys of the Year.”The Mark Thompson Show 11/26/24Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.com#Trump #DavidCayJohnston #Electionfallout #politics #political #politicalanalysis #TrumpCabinet #Musk #Epshtyn #TechTuesday #JeffersonGraham #TechTurkeys

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