Worth a repeat. This book should be added to your reading list.

[mfcorey1]

David Cay Johnston began covering Donald Trump in the 1980s when he was working as the Atlantic City reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Johnston’s new book, "The Making of Donald Trump," looks at a side of Trump seldom covered in the press: his ties to the mob, drug traffickers and felons.

AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about Donald Trump, we’re joined now by David Cay Johnston, who’s followed Trump’s career for decades. His biography of Trump has just been published. It’s titled The Making of Donald Trump and examines Trump’s rise to prominence. David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, previously with The New York Times, now a columnist for The Daily Beast.

Welcome back to Democracy Now! It’s nice to have you in studio. Why don’t we start off with your response to what Trump said yesterday?

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, I’ve been listening to right-wing radio about this, and all sorts of people are saying, "There goes the liberal media again. He never said that." He certainly said it to people who are zealots, people who are deranged, people who are dangerous. And without question, this was way beyond the pale. But, you know, this will happen again. This is who Donald Trump is. He is a bully. He is someone who believes that whatever he thinks is in his interest in the moment is in the national interest.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, David, you’ve been following Trump now for decades, going back to—even back when you were, what, a bureau chief for the Philadelphia Inquirer in Atlantic City—

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yes.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: —when he was beginning to get his casinos going there in Atlantic City. What’s been the main thread that you’ve taken away from your years of studying his operations.

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/10/donald_doesnt_know_anything_author_david

[bdamomma]

1. oh god

this dangerous man needs to be stopped. He is a homegrown threat.

[octoberlib]

2. I'll have to read his book.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Great interview-- too bad so few will see it or take it to heart.

[Achilleaze]

4. Comrade Casino is the Republican family values role model for generations...

of Republican rug rats. He is the freaking Republican IDEAL. And he will spawn generations of little Republican a-holes who will strive to be just like him.

[madokie]

5. I honestly thought as a country we were moving past all the racism of our past

but when we elected a black man as our President, Good Honest Man, Awesome President BTW, the racist aholes started coming out of the wood work. Now with this racist piece of shit and like you said bringing on a whole new generation of racist little kids we're truly fucked. Unless one happens to be a white racist mail then in that case it will be an awesome future they will inherit. I'm just glad I'm nearing the end of my existence. That last statement is truly scary to me as it is unlike me so much to even entertain that kind of thinking for a second.

President Barack Obama will be remembered as one of, if not, the, very best of our modern Presidents.

[underpants]

6. Democracy Now is such an excellent show

I can catch the headlines every minute ending and it's actual information, actual news. It includes stories that are completely ignored in the news outlets with much larger budgets.

[bdamomma]

9. Yes it is.

I do give donations when I am able to.

This thread should be kicked and rec. Mr. Johnston has some chilling things to say about tRump.

[bdamomma]

7. K&R

oh this interview is chilling. I have sent to my Senator in RI. I will post it to him.

This is truly a very dangerous man, he is a threat to all of us. Or am I overacting??

[bdamomma]

8. K&R

[bdamomma]

10. K&R

[ProudProgressiveNow]

11. K&R nt