


He teaches business regulation, property and tax law at Syracuse University’s law and graduate business schools. His investigations over the next four decades appeared in that paper, The New York Times & other national journals. He exposed LAPD political spying and brutality, and he once hunted down a killer, whom the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had failed to catch, resulting in an innocent man winning acquittal at his fifth trial revealed news blackouts and manipulations that forced a six-station broadcast chain off the air deconstructed the way foreign agents from South Africa and Taiwan secretly influenced American government policy misuse of charitable funds at United Way and explained the economics of former GE chairman Jack Welch’s retirement perks, prompting Welch to relinquish them. When he was 18 years old the San Jose Mercury recruited him. In this interview recorded on January 26, 2018, we discuss his latest books, IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THINK: WHAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS DOING TO AMERICA, just out from Simon & Schuster, and THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, published in 2016 by Melville House.ĭavid Cay Johnston digs deep, gets the facts others evade, ignore or fail to look for – much less find – and exposes exactly how the American system is rigged in favor of the 1% of the 1%. We welcome back Pulitzer Prize Winning investigative journalist and best-selling author, David Cay Johnston.
