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🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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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.
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0:00.0 | Okay, I am off. We are off. It is Wednesday and it's the 10th of July |
0:08.0 | 2024 here in America or wherever you are listening. I'm very happy to have you here. |
0:14.2 | David Kay Johnston joins me today |
0:16.7 | for a wide-ranging conversation |
0:18.6 | about the Supreme Court decisions, |
0:20.8 | the presidential campaign, and so much more more always great to have this |
0:24.7 | Pulitzer Prize winning journalists joining me that is coming up at |
0:29.1 | 21 minutes I'm very happy to have you here listening. I hope things are all right with you. I hope to see you at our hang out tomorrow night, Thursday night, and wanted to make my friends in Nashville aware of. |
0:42.6 | Ophira Eisenberg will be there on the next Thursday, July 18th. |
0:48.0 | I'm going to plug this for her as much as I can. |
0:50.1 | Zaney's Nashville, one night only only go see Ophira at Zaney in Nashville. |
0:56.7 | All right well I don't have any other plugs other than the hang out and how much I love you. |
1:02.0 | I should probably get to the headlines. There are 40 days |
1:05.4 | until the Democratic National Convention, 117 days till election day and you've got |
1:11.5 | the RNC coming up in Milwaukee next week it starts Monday |
1:16.1 | July 15th so who's going to that huh any day now we will know who the disgrace |
1:21.7 | former president will be picking to |
1:23.8 | disgrace because whoever runs with them will also be a disgrace. Is it going to be |
1:28.4 | Marco Rubio, Doug Bergam, or JD Vance those are the three names most people are thrown around but maybe |
1:34.8 | it'll be something else I don't know I don't care it that person's a terrible person and |
1:38.6 | last night disgraced foreign president had a rally in Florida and I'm not going to mention too much |
1:44.8 | about it if anything I don't think I'm grabbing any sound bites from it let's get to |
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