Leslie is joined by David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author.
The two discuss David's most recent NYT best seller, "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America."
David is also the Founder and Editor of DCReport.org, a unique, nonprofit news service that reports what the President and Congress DO, not what they SAY. The website is founded on core investigative journalism principles of research, fact-checking, and reporting in plain English how you and your family are affected by what happens in Washington, D.C.
No working journalist knows Donald Trump better than David, who first met the forty-fifth president in 1988 and has tracked him ever since. Johnston chronicled much of Trump’s conduct in two books: Temples of Chance and the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump. He was also an uncredited source of documents and insight for major campaign reports by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and network television. When Trump announced his campaign in June 2015, Johnston was the first national journalist to write about a potential Trump presidency. More recently, Johnston was the journalist who received a copy of Trump’s tax return in the mail, as revealed on Rachel Maddow. Now Johnston examines the first one hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency, including a close look at what the mainstream press stopped covering years ago: the workings of the federal government agencies and how that touches the lives of all Americans, from our wallets to our health care to our safety. He also provides unique insight about how our lives are affected by many actions that the new administration quietly approves without drawing the attention of the Washington press corps.
David's new book is available at SimonAndSchuster.com, Amazon, and wherever great books are sold. His website is DCReport.org and his Twitter handle is @DavidCayJ.