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The Al Franken Podcast

90: David Cay Johnston on His New Book – The Big Cheat. Who’s it about? Take a guess!

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

A one-stop romp through the crimes of Trump and his grifter family. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we got a great one for a change.

0:08.8

David K. Johnston.

0:11.3

You may know him if you watch MSNBC.

0:14.7

MSNBC is a cable news channel associated with NBC.

0:23.6

And the MSS, by the way, Microsoft.

0:27.3

They merged and became MSNBC.

0:34.9

And I had kind of hoped that they had done a business channel or financial news network.

0:38.5

And so it could be MSNBCFN.

0:44.1

Make sure you watch MSNBC or MSNBCFN.

0:50.7

I wanted people to have to say that a lot, but they wisely chose not to.

0:52.7

Anyway, you've probably seen David K. Johnson on a lot of MSNsn bc and if they had an msnbc fn

0:58.1

he'd be on that too because that's what he writes about he's a bold surprise winner uh from new

1:03.1

york times he wrote on writing on taxes and finance and stuff like that a brilliant guy and

1:08.8

this is this is my goal here.

1:11.3

He's written a book, and I read the book, and it's really good.

1:15.7

And it's a kind of a compendium, and there's new stuff in it about just what a sleazebag

1:23.2

Trump is in terms of his finances, basically.

1:28.0

Name of the book is The Big Cheat,

1:32.0

how Donald Trump fleeced America and enriched himself and his family.

1:37.7

None of that is probably news to you that that he did that,

1:41.0

but this is both how he did it and sign of enumerating all the stuff he did.

1:46.4

And so I compare this.

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