SUPD 989 Investigative Journalist / American Treasure David Cay Johnston
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
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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
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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 | Well look at who we have here. |
| 0:05.0 | look who the podcast dragged in today. |
| 0:08.0 | How were you there, friend? |
| 0:11.0 | Thank you very much for pressing play and joining me. You are not going to be sorry as a phrase I know I often use I should be better, but come on, one of the all-time stand-up with Pete Dominic great David K Johnston joins me today of course |
| 0:24.4 | Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists wrote three books on Trump |
| 0:28.3 | wrote three books on economics and taxes specifically and such a brilliant journalist who I'm very happy to have joining me for this |
| 0:36.4 | wide-ranging conversation that you can hear if you want to jump to it right |
| 0:41.3 | now and skip the new segment, it begins at about 28 minutes |
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| 0:48.0 | But a whole cavalcade, an avalanche of headlines and clips for you on today's opening segment and a lot of work |
| 0:56.4 | I put into it so thank you very much for those of you that are staying and listening. |
| 1:00.7 | You're the kindest. |
| 1:01.9 | And if you wait till the very end there's a special nickname |
| 1:05.0 | for those of you who listen to the very all the way to the end of the podcast you know what it is |
| 1:09.2 | if you heard it but I'll let you know again today if you listen all the way to the end. |
| 1:13.0 | Little Nugget, little Easter egg at the end of the program. |
| 1:16.0 | Also thank you to the very many of you that reached out to me in the morning, early in the morning, |
| 1:21.0 | love how early so many of you listen to it. |
| 1:23.4 | Podcast usually posts at midnight by the way, available usually a little after midnight, |
| 1:27.8 | but many of you reached out and told me that there was an auditing and auditing, see, I'm like Trump, I don't misspeak, I just say it with |
| 1:36.6 | confirmation and confidence. An editing mistake where I left out the clip from |
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