1372 David Cay Johnston + News and Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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šļø 10 June 2025
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David Cay JohnstonĀ Ā 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 readĀ
David Cay JohnstonĀ is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author.
The Washington MonthlyĀ called him as āone of Americaās most importantĀ journalists.āĀ The PortlandĀ OregonianĀ 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 Trumpās 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 theĀ Making of Donald Trump, published around the world in English and German on August 2, 2016, by Melville House.
TheĀ San Jose MercuryĀ recruited Johnston when he was just 18 years old because of his reporting for two small weekly newspapers in Santa Cruz, Calif. At age 19Ā The MercuryĀ 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, theĀ Detroit Free Press,Ā Los Angeles Times,Ā The Philadelphia InquirerĀ andĀ 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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Stand up. |
| 0:02.6 | Hello there, and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up where I have got the great Pulitzer Prize winning the investigative journalist and bestselling author David K. Johnston of Rochester Institute of Technology now. |
| 0:14.2 | That's where he is teaching because he's never quitting. |
| 0:16.6 | He joins me at about 37 minutes into today's show. |
| 0:19.7 | If you want to skip ahead to that interview, thank you to everyone who joined me at last night's stand-up, happy hour hangout. |
| 0:26.6 | I host two a week. |
| 0:27.7 | Mondays and Thursdays, we had a great time last night a little over. |
| 0:31.3 | We did about two and a half hours. |
| 0:32.6 | I was there from 8 to 10.30. |
| 0:34.3 | We had, I don't know, 60 people there, I think, at one point, and lots of laughs and lots of very serious discussion as well, heavily focused on what is happening in California with this regime and the immigration crackdowns, how it's making us feel, and where we are headed in the future, a lot of ominous predictions, a lot of thoughtful |
| 0:55.7 | conversations, and plenty of ideas that people were sharing about how to navigate it all. |
| 1:02.2 | So I highly recommend that you stop by the hangouts. |
| 1:05.3 | You can keep your camera off. |
| 1:06.7 | You're not required to participate in any way. |
| 1:09.1 | You could just be in the chat. |
| 1:10.2 | You could just listen to it. |
| 1:11.8 | And if you want to listen to last nights, there is a link in today's subscriber email that you can go back and listen to it. |
| 1:18.1 | Also, to get us started here, I'm going to share Gareth Seber's song, but he wrote at the end of the hangout. |
| 1:24.1 | Dude is such a talented musician, percussionist, dancer, singer, songwriter, |
| 1:29.5 | classically trained, and we love him. He's a great, great guy, and he'll be at the hangout. |
| 1:35.1 | He'll contribute in all kinds of ways during the conversation, but he takes notes, apparently, |
| 1:40.2 | the whole time for like two hours, and then he puts together a song about what happened. |
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