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Trump is unable to make the $464 million bond in his civil fraud case. New York Attorney General James prepares to seize Trump assets in Westchester. How broke is he? What happens next? Pulitzer Prize winning author David Cay Johnston joins Tara Setmayer and Rick Wilson to discuss.About David Cay Johnston: In 1989 David Cay Johnston wrote about Donald Trump becoming president someday. Since 2016 Johnston has written three bestsellers about Trump. (The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, and The Making of Donald Trump)Since 2009 Johnston has been the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law, although he is not lawyer. Johnston received a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his innovative reporting in The New York Times on taxes. The Pulitzer jury cited his “exquisite command” of complicated tax laws. His next book will propose a new federal tax system for the 21st Century economy.
One of my all time favorite journalists is my guest today. His books have had a more profound affect on my thinking re tax policy than any other David Cay Johnston won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting he did for The New York Times, he has hunted down a killer the police failed to catch, exposed LAPD abuses, caused two television stations to lose their licenses over news manipulations, and revealed Donald Trump's true net worth. He has uncovered so many tax dodges that he has been called the "de facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States." His book, Perfectly Legal, was a New York Times bestseller and honored as Book of the Year by the journalism organization Investigative Reporters and Editors. Over his forty-year career he has won many other honors, including a George Polk Award. David Cay Johnston is the founder and editor of DCReport.org. His most recent book is titled “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.” Professor Laura Briggs is an expert on U.S. and international child welfare policy and on transnational and transracial adoption. She received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, her M.T.S. from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University. Her research studies the relationship between reproductive politics, neoliberalism, and the longue durée of U.S. empire and imperialism. Briggs has also been at the forefront of rethinking the field and frameworks of transnational feminisms. Briggs newly published Briggs also recently co-edited a special issue of Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism on “Radical Transnationalisms: Reimagining Solidarities, Violence, Empires” that brings transnational feminism studies into new light by developing new and alternative analytical frameworks and exploring alternative or forgotten genealogies of the field. Briggs’s new book project, entitled The Future is Born in Small Places: The Gendered (Bio)Politics of Freedom, Debt Imperialism, and Unnatural Disaster in the Caribbean, focuses on historical and contemporary uses of debt in the United States and the Caribbean as a political tool of disenfranchisement, expropriation, and necropolitics. Briggs is also a public intellectual whose work has been featured in court cases, podcasts, and journalism, including on National Public Radio, Slate, PBS, New Republic, Indian Country Today, andMs.magazine. She began her intellectual career as a journalist for Gay Community News. She regularly teaches seminars on transnational feminisms, reproductive politics, and contemporary feminist theory.
This week on #StrangeDays, we cover the crisis in Venezuela with WLRN (South Florida NPR station) Americas Editor Tim Padgett, who covers Latin America and the Caribbean, and Venezuelan-born South Florida political consultant Maurizio Passariello. After that, we return to our fascinating interviews from the #MiamiBookFair with Thomas Frank, author of Rendezvous from Oblivion, and Ben Fountain, author of Beautiful Country Burn Again. But WAIT! There’s more… David Cay Johnston, author of “It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America” rounds out our show. Buckle up and enjoy! Buy Thomas Frank’s “Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society”: https://amzn.to/2GedSDJ Buy Ben Fountain’s “Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, Revolution”: https://amzn.to/2MIJ5jx Buy David Cay Johnston’s: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America”: https://amzn.to/2MHqwMr Become a Patreon subscriber to get access to our exclusive bonus interviews: www.patreon.com/strangedays
With Democrats picking up 40 seats in the midterm elections, the party currently holds a commanding 36-seat majority in the House of Representatives. On this week's TrumpWatch, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of the book “It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America” David Cay Johnston returns to the show to explore what the new House majority will mean for the mounting investigations of the President.
With Democrats picking up 40 seats in the midterm elections, the party currently holds a commanding 36-seat majority in the House of Representatives. On this week's TrumpWatch, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of the book “It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America” David Cay Johnston returns to the show to explore what the new House majority will mean for the mounting investigations of the President.
(1/23/19) With Democrats picking up 40 seats in November’s election, the party currently holds a commanding 36-seat majority in the House of Representatives. In this episode of “TrumpWatch with Jesse Lent” on WBAI, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of “It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America” David Cay Johnston explores what the new House majority will mean for the mounting investigations of the President and who can compel him to release his tax returns.
Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen's admission of guilt of violating federal election laws in arranging hush money to pay a porn actress and a Playboy model on behalf of his client could potentially open doors to persecute State criminal charges for Donald Trump. To talk about the implications of the Cohen and Paul Manafort cases we are in conversation with David Cay Johnston. Guest: David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of several books including The Making of Donald Trump and It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. David Cay Johnston latest piece New York Prosecutors Can Go After Trump Now, Even If Mueller Won't can be found on DCReport. Then, we talk to Matthew Vitz about the social and ecological changes of Mexico City during its crucial stage of development in the early twentieth century. Guest: Matthew Vitz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. His latest book is A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City. The post Understanding the Cases of Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort & the Ecological History of Mexico City appeared first on KPFA.
David Cay Johnston in conversation with Terrence McNally at Live Talks Los Angeles discussing his book, It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. The talk took place on January 30, 2018 at the Moss Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. For more information on Live Talks Los Angeles, visit www.livetalksla.org
David Cay Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter and the author of the New York Times Best Seller "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America." David is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of DCReport.Org, a non-profit news service covering Congress and the White House. David has covered Donald Trump for nearly 30 years and "It's Even Worse Than You Think" is a follow-up to his book "The Making of Donald Trump." David is the author of seven books. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews.
David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump. He has lectured on economics, journalism, and tax policy on every continent except Antarctica, and is a former president of Investigative Reporters & Editors. He teaches at Syracuse University College of Law. David has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, ABC World News Tonight, Democracy Now, and National Public Radio's Morning Edition, among other shows, and was a consultant for the Netflix series House of Cards. His newest book is It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. David was in the Northwest to speak at The Summit on Pike, presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the Civics Series.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author of THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, has been covering Trump since the late ‘80s. While most of the media focuses on tweets and White House intrigue, he co-founded DCReport.org to keep track of what they’re not telling you. Johnston joins me to talk about the revelations in his #2 NYTimes best-seller, IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.
David Cay Johnston, bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump, returns to the podcast to say "I told you so" and discuss his new book It’s Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. The Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist says the President who promised to "drain the swamp" has become the biggest swamp monster of all. He describes how Trump is packing government agencies with "political termites" who are eating away at the very institutions they’re supposed to protect. He gives lie to the myth of Donald Trump as the champion of the American worker, explains the President’s two very different standards of justice, and reveals how Trump is enriching his family and giving away valuable government property to a new class of American oligarchs. Plus David Cay Johnston says he knows what the Mueller investigation has on Trump, he weighs in on the Stormy Daniels scandal, and makes a prediction for the 2018 midterms. Order It's Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America on Amazon or Audible. Visit www.davidcayjohnston.com and follow David on twitter at @DavidCayJ. Today's episode was sponsored by Kubernetes Engine on Google Cloud Platform.
From the annals of monkey research, how 10 primates were gassed in the service of a bad study. Today on The Gist, investigative reporter David Cay Johnston, who has been reporting on President Trump long enough to simply call him Donald. Johnston has an appreciation for Donald’s trademark swindles: refusing payment, lying to vendors, abridging photocopies. He’s not surprised to see the same methods at work in the Trump administration. He likens the Trump administration to “political termites,” eating their way through the structures of the U.S. government, leaving holes throughout. Johnston is the author of It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. In the Spiel, the trial, coverage, and sentencing of Larry Nassar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the annals of monkey research, how 10 primates were gassed in the service of a bad study. Today on The Gist, investigative reporter David Cay Johnston, who has been reporting on President Trump long enough to simply call him Donald. Johnston has an appreciation for Donald’s trademark swindles: refusing payment, lying to vendors, abridging photocopies. He’s not surprised to see the same methods at work in the Trump administration. He likens the Trump administration to “political termites,” eating their way through the structures of the U.S. government, leaving holes throughout. Johnston is the author of It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. In the Spiel, the trial, coverage, and sentencing of Larry Nassar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Investigative Reporter David Cay Johnston documents President Trump’s first year in office and explains why “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.”