1477 David Cay Johnston + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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My conversation with DCJ starts at about 31 minutes after headlines and clips
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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 | Hello and hi, hello, hi, hi, how are you? It's me, and I am here, and I've got a great, great episode of Stand Up coming your way with one of our favorite guests, the great David K. Johnston joins me today. Also, I tagged my appearance on the Chicago's The Joan Esposito show. |
| 0:22.0 | I was her guest yesterday, and I made another blockbuster, very impressive appearance |
| 0:26.2 | that I tagged on to the end of today's show after my conversation with David K. Johnston, |
| 0:32.0 | and that begins at about 31 minutes into today's show. |
| 0:35.5 | Always love to touch the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter another awesome conversation today also today is veterans day so thanks to all the veterans out there if you know any |
| 0:45.5 | you might want to reach out and say hi how are you how are you doing is everything all right is there anything i can do for you it's a federal |
| 0:51.4 | holiday banks are closed etc my daughter is home from today, and so I hope that maybe you get a day off. Maybe you have a day off as well. There you have it. I've got a great episode for you. We had a great hangout. Last night we did a Monday night hangout because I was unable to do the Thursday last week. So it was great to see folks last night with a great conversation for almost two hours and lots of laughs as well. |
| 1:16.8 | If you are a paid subscriber, you can go back and listen or watch last night saying that. |
| 1:21.9 | I'll include a link in today's email. |
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| 1:51.9 | scheduled to be live today at 11 east with dr aaron carroll so if you're listening to this |
| 1:56.5 | tuesday november 11th anytime before then Check us out if you're listening after then. |
| 2:01.8 | Should be up on YouTube. YouTube.com slash standup with Pete with the most of my other interviews. |
| 2:07.4 | All right. Well, let's get to the headlines I've got for you, the clip show or what I call this |
| 2:12.6 | block of news, the shit show, because I tell you all all the terrible mostly terrible things that are happening |
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