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Oct 17, 2026
Ali VelshiHOST
Ten days later, the Trump administration cut the tariff rate on Swiss goods from 39% to 15%.
Ali VelshiHOST
Joining me now, Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration and a University of Minnesota law professor, and David Cay Johnston, a journalist, author, and Trump biographer.
Ali VelshiHOST
He's a professor of practice at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Ali VelshiHOST
Gentlemen, thank you.
8 MINS LATER
Ali VelshiHOST
... except, k- asking the Jus- Department of Justice to deal with this, as, as Richard says, is tricky because, as we're gonna discuss when we come back from a break, um, the guy who heads the Justice Department is actually Donald Trump's lawyer, not just acting as one.
Ali VelshiHOST
We'll take a quick break.
Ali VelshiHOST
Richard Painter and David Cay Johnston will be back on the other side.
Ali VelshiHOST
And coming up later in the show, we got a packed show for you, how No Kings organizers are trying to turn a protest movement into a political sea change.
Mark ThompsonHOST
There are plenty more in the pipeline this week.
Mark ThompsonHOST
David Cay Johnston joins us tomorrow, and I've got a full week ahead with some great guests, and there's a lot going on pre, uh, midterms, so that as well.
Mark ThompsonHOST
Thanks for being here on this holiday Monday.
Mark ThompsonHOST
And now...
Egberto WilliesHOST
Mm-hmm.
JohnnyAUDIENCE
When you read, uh, David Cay Johnston, he's written several biographies of Donald Trump, you realize that these people are severely, uh, wounded by their stupid ass parents.
JohnnyAUDIENCE
And then you gotta go back, well, what happened to the parents? [laughs] It's, it's, it's like, you know, oh, you know that, that Russian egg, you open up the egg and you get a smaller one and a smaller one and a smaller one until you, until you see the a- and then you can't, you get it to the atomic level.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Mm-hmm.
Mark ThompsonHOST
Uh, there's a, a component related to China.
Mark ThompsonHOST
We can talk more about it with David Cay Johnston.
Mark ThompsonHOST
Um, but, uh, but this is a move that he's making which is sort of consistent with what he've, he's been doing as the ramp-up to midterms has spelled trouble for Trump.
Mark ThompsonHOST
So increasingly, it, it's not just, uh, the price of gas.
6 MINS LATER
Mark ThompsonHOST
I don't need to tell you, uh, the challenges of the US healthcare system.
Mark ThompsonHOST
It's, uh, uh, it's an embarrassment in a, in a country with so much, so.
Mark ThompsonHOST
Uh, David Cay Johnston, uh, next as we continue.
Mark ThompsonHOST
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Mark ThompsonHOST
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Mark ThompsonHOST
You can find, uh, things like the Saakians work, conversations, David Cay Johnston, David Shuster, et cetera, and all of the different authors and brilliant thinkers who come through this show.
Mark ThompsonHOST
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Mark ThompsonHOST
So I mention this as, uh, a way to expand the footprint of the show.
Ian MastersHOST
What could go wrong? Then finally, we'll explore why Trump is so afraid of what is in the Epstein files he has fought so hard to suppress.
Ian MastersHOST
Joining us to discuss if Trump loses the House and possibly the Senate in the November elections, he's likely to have Todd Blanche and Kash Patel destroy the incriminating documents, is David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author of The Making of Donald Trump.
Ian MastersHOST
A 13-year veteran of The New York Times, he won the Pulitzer Prize, and his latest book is The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America And Enriched Himself and His Family.
Ian MastersHOST
He's also a professor at the Rochester Institute for Technology and the co-founder of dcreport.org. And before we begin, for over a decade we have warned that Trump is both a criminal and likely a traitor, not to mention he's mentally unstable, egomaniacal, woefully ignorant, wildly incompetent, insatiably greedy, and spectacularly corrupt.
35 MINS LATER
Ian MastersHOST
What Could Go Wrong? Again, it could be Station Break back exploring why Trump is so afraid of what is in the Epstein files he has fought so hard to suppress, and we were discussing whether or not if Trump loses the House and Senate in November, he'll have Todd Blanche and Kash Patel destroy the incriminating documents.
Ian MastersHOST
[upbeat music] Welcome back.
Ian MastersHOST
I'm Ian Masters, and this is Background Briefing, available 24/7 at backgroundbriefing.org. And joining us now, David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author of The Making of Donald Trump.
Ian MastersHOST
A 13-year veteran of The New York Times, he won the Pulitzer Prize, and his latest book is The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family.
Kim McCallisterHOST
[laughs] Oh, no.
Kim McCallisterHOST
Tomorrow, David Cay Johnston is on The Mark Thompson Show.
Kim McCallisterHOST
Also, uh, we'll have, I, I wanna say his name is David, uh, Walbert.
Kim McCallisterHOST
He's got a great book about the stealing of elections.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
You can have no degree at all.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
David Cay Johnston, who we used to get on Randi's show all the time-
Jodi HamiltonHOST
Walter Cronkite.
Jodi HamiltonHOST
I mean, we could-