# Interview with author David Cay Johnston **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228 "2016-09-18T01:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228/1 "2016-09-18T01:44:57Z")
This aired on C-SPAN’s Q&A last weekend. The transcript is available if you don’t want to watch it. He’s an investigative journalist who wrote the current best-seller “The Making of Donald Trump”, which I haven’t read yet but plan to. It sounds very interesting, and frightening too. > **[Q&A with David Cay Johnston](https://www.c-span.org/video/?414381-1%2Fqa-david-cay-johnston)** > > David Cay Johnston talked about this book \[The Making of Donald Trump\], in which he takes a critical look at the 2016 Republican presidential nominee. Moderator: feel free to move this thread if you don’t think it belongs here. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228/2 "2016-09-19T23:54:46Z")
I’ve read some of his stuff before & I think he is an excellent writer - I’d like to read the book about Trump someday…when he is off the front pages, soon, please god. anyway, I am watching the video now so thanks for the link. I just got to the point when Oprah is interviewing him and he said if he ever ran for president he would not only win but “make a profit” :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228/3 "2017-06-10T03:36:06Z")
Update: I checked out the book from the library but decided to buy it because I couldn’t bring myself to read it at the time. I did so a few days before the inauguration and told the cashier, “Might as well get this while it’s still legal to do so.” :rolleyes: Anyway, I finally started reading it a couple days ago. It’s scarier than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228/4 "2017-06-10T06:13:59Z")
Johnston is a regular guest on the MSNBC evening news / commentary programs, such as Rachel Maddow. He’s clearly done his homework on Trump and his finances. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228/5 "2017-06-10T06:21:32Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Johnston is a regular guest on the MSNBC evening news / commentary programs, such as Rachel Maddow. He’s clearly done his homework on Trump and his finances. And he looks like the most jolly Santa Claus. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228/6 "2017-06-10T13:56:52Z")
and it was only last September I had hope the rump would be out of the news soon. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228/7 "2017-06-11T03:40:41Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > and it was only last September I had hope the rump would be out of the news soon. ☹ The book was completed in July 2016. I expect it to be reissued with an epilogue, most likely after Lord Dampnut leaves office regardless of how he does so. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interview-with-author-david-cay-johnston/766228/8 "2017-06-11T12:48:55Z")
I would think holding the office of president (in his damp, tiny hands) would be enough material for volume two. ☹