Will TRUMP SURVIVE Epstein Files Scandal? David Cay Johnston - Ghislaine Maxwell Epstein Birthday Book | AU 470

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Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author, and professor. With a career spanning almost six decades, Johnston has exposed complex financial systems, political corruption, and tax injustice across the United States. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including “The Making of Donald Trump”, “Perfectly Legal”, and “Free Lunch”, all of which break down how the wealthy and powerful manipulate the system for personal gain.

Johnston served as a reporter for The New York Times for over 13 years, where his groundbreaking work on tax policy earned him national recognition. He is also the founder and editor of DCReport.org, a nonprofit news service that continues to track what the government is doing behind the scenes.

As a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, he teaches law, taxation, and investigative reporting. His expertise has made him a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, and NPR, and his writing has appeared in The Nation, The Daily Beast, and Reuters.

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0:00.8	Hello, good evening, everybody, or wherever you are in the world.
0:03.6	I hope you having a great day.
0:04.9	I am here with Professor David Kate Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner for his journalism,
0:11.9	esteemed professor, expert in taxation law.
0:15.7	And we are talking today about the Trump fire that has been burning the house ever since Elon tweeted
0:24.9	about him being in the files. The fire has been burning, burning. And it just will not,
0:30.9	it just does not seem to go away. We're getting story after story. Today's story is that
0:36.2	the Epstein estate will hand the birthday book at the
0:40.1	centre of Trump defamation case to Congress. Representative Garcia of California
0:47.4	said the estate will comply with a subpoena and turn over the book and other documents,
0:53.5	including the infamous birthday book at the
0:56.4	centre of the defamation case with the Wall Street Journal. And he also said that we finally got
1:04.2	word from the Epstein Estate. We're going to be providing the actual Epstein book. The Epstein
1:10.5	estate is actually going to actually
1:12.5	now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not being
1:18.5	reported yet. And the birthday book, if you're not familiar, it's the subject of the Wall Street
1:23.0	Journal article concerning and allegedly, um, bawdy birthday message from Trump to Jeffrey,
1:29.5	which Trump has asserted does not exist.
1:33.1	Uh,
1:33.3	Trump counted with a 10 billion defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch,
1:37.7	the paper and its parent company Dow Jones and the journalists whose bylines
1:43.2	appeared on the piece.
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