It's even worse than you think : what the Trump administration is doing to America / David Cay Johnston.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 306 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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- 9781501174162
- It is even worse than you think
- 973.933 23
- E912 .J64 2018
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New York Times Bestseller
The Trump administration is remaking the government. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America tells us exactly how it is making America worse again.
Bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump Administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more.
No journalist knows Donald Trump better than David Cay Johnston, who has been following him since 1988. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America goes inside the administration to show how the federal agencies that touch the lives of all Americans are being undermined. Here is just some of what you will learn:
The Wall. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto told President Trump that Mexico will never pay for the border wall. So, Trump is proposing putting a tariff on Mexican imports. But a tariff will simply raise the price of Mexican goods in the US, meaning American consumers will end up paying for the wall--if it ever gets built.
Climate Change. Welcome to the new EPA, run by Scott Pruitt, a lawyer who has spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads. Secrecy reigns at the new EPA because Pruitt meets with industry executives to find out which clean air and clean water provisions they most want to roll back, and keeps staffers in the dark to make sure these pro-pollution plans don't leak prematurely.
Stocking the Swamp. Contrary to his promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington, DC, Trump has filled his cabinet with millionaires and billionaires, from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs and hedge fund veteran who made much of his fortune foreclosing on homeowners to billionaire heiress Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has already put the interests of bankers ahead of debt-burdened students and their families.
The Kleptocracy. Under Donald Trump conflict of interest is passé. When Trump isn't in Washington, he stays at one of his properties, where the taxpayers pick up the tab for staffers, Secret Service, and so on, all at full price. And back in Washington, everyone now knows that the Trump International Hotel is the only place to stay if you want to do business with the administration. Meanwhile sons Donald Jr. and Eric run an eyes-wide-open blind trust of Trump holdings to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest--but not the reality.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.
Part I: A president like no other. The Trump factor ; Kleptocracy rising ; Emoluments ; Refusals to pay ; Appointees -- Part II: Jobs. Hiding in the budget ; A mighty job creator ; Forgetting the forgotten man ; Washington apprentice -- Part III: Taxes. The tax expert ; Trump's tax return ; Trump's wall -- Part IV: Fossil fuels and climate and science denial. Polluters' paradise ; Go FOIA yourself ; Interior purging ; Stripping science ; Stocking the swamp -- Part V: Global affairs. Diplomacy ; Trade ; Digital delusions -- Part VI: Education. Promises and performances ; Bankers before brains -- Part VII: Law and order, veterans, race and guns, immigration. Above the law ; Wounding the veterans ; The road to Charlottesville ; Immigration -- Part VIII: Conclusion. The con unravels.
"Bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump Administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more. No journalist knows Donald Trump better than David Cay Johnston, who has been following him since 1988. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America goes inside the administration to show how the federal agencies that touch the lives of all Americans are being undermined. Here is just some of what you will learn: The Wall. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto told President Trump that Mexico will never pay for the border wall. So, Trump is proposing putting a tariff on Mexican imports. But a tariff will simply raise the price of Mexican goods in the US, meaning American consumers will end up paying for the wall--if it ever gets built. Climate Change. Welcome to the new EPA, run by Scott Pruitt, a lawyer who has spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads. Secrecy reigns at the new EPA because Pruitt meets with industry executives to find out which clean air and clean water provisions they most want to roll back, and keeps staffers in the dark to make sure these pro-pollution plans don't leak prematurely. Stocking the Swamp. Contrary to his promise to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, DC, Trump has filled his cabinet with millionaires and billionaires, from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs and hedge fund veteran who made much of his fortune foreclosing on homeowners, to billionaire heiress Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has already put the interests of bankers ahead of debt-burdened students and their families. The Kleptocracy. Under Donald Trump conflict of interest is passé. When Trump isn't in Washington, he stays at one of his properties, where the taxpayers pick up the tab for staffers, Secret Service, and so on, all at full price. And back in Washington, everyone now knows that the Trump International Hotel is the only place to stay if you want to do business with the administration. Meanwhile sons Donald Jr. and Eric run an eyes-wide-open blind trust of Trump holdings to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest--but not the reality."--Dust jacket.
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Kirkus Book Review
If there's such a genre as anti-hagiography, Johnston (The Making of Donald Trump, 2016, etc.) adds materially to it with this new polemic against the sitting president.If the Trump administration can boast of an accomplishment to date, writes the author, it is that "thanks to Trump the mentally ill now have virtually the same gun rights as the sane." One might think this a questionable contribution to the commonwealth, but, Johnston argues with a fine and steely sense of indignation, that is precisely the point. Where other presidents have had agendas in the national interest and reformist tendencies toward the same end, "the Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop." That includes various kleptocratic schemes, such as the evasion of the anti-emoluments clause mostly by simply ignoring it and being abetted by a Republican Congress all too willing to overlook constitutional niceties. Thus it is, Johnston chronicles, that the president continues to cash in on the Trump Hotel just down the street from the White House, with staffers hanging out in the lobby to record who comes and goes, to be rewarded accordingly. It also includes turning a blind eye to the dismantling of the administrative state by "termites" who operate behind closed doors, carefully shielded from public view as they destroy agencies and records. Johnston is very good at connecting odd dots: why, for instance, would Trump want to annihilate an agency devoted to increasing American trade exports abroad? Because part of the deal is to push renewable energy, and Trump "has attacked renewable energy again and again." Never mind collusion with Russia, election-fixing, vote suppression, and all the rest. The author writes without an ounce of self-congratulation that he's been warning about the dangers of Trump for years, and it's all coming trueincluding, he adds, his prediction that "as president, Trump's behavior would become increasingly erratic. And it has."Thoroughly depressingbut urgent, necessary reading, at least for those who aren't true believers in the Trumpite cause. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
David Cay Johnston was born in San Francisco, California on December 24, 1948. He received his education at San Francisco State University, Michigan State University and the University of Chicago. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast, Investopedia, USA Today, NationalMemo.com, Tax Analysts and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Johnston is also Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Syracuse University College of Law and Whitman School of Management - The property, tax and regulatory law of the ancient world. David is the Past President, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) and Board President, InvestigativePost.com Buffalo, NY.David Cay Johnston is the author of New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump. His other titles include It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America (2018); The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind (2012); Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill), a 2008 New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller; Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else which was the 2004 Investigative Book of the Year award winner and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller; Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. To Win Control of the Casino Business (1992).
David Cay Johnston is the Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, an IRE Medal and the George Polk Award.
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