David Cay Johnston on Art

"Trump started a faux university named for himself that taught nothing of value and collapsed in scandal."

"The Founders of this country are in two groups... e live in the second American republic because the first American republic under the Articles of Confederation failed, because it had no power to tax."

"Many of those who believe in Trump come from the 90 percent whose economic fortunes have dwindled over that last half century... olicies embraced by both parties ignored their plight or made it worse."

"e live in a society where... presidents and candidates for president of both parties are always saying "God Bless America" and "This is the greatest ever" and they're not talking about the real facts of what's going on."

"Trump used illegal immigrants with sledge hammers to demolish a... Manhattan department store so he could build. A federal judge... held that Trump engaged in a conspiracy to cheat those men out of their full $4 an hour pay."

"One of the things that changed was the institutions that supported working people have been decimated. ...he Democrats, the party of the working people, played a role in this. They allowed the weakening... of unions. They bought the argument that unions are bad for companies."

"Japan has mandatory unions. ...It's in their Constitution, and who wrote their Constitution? ...The staff of... General Douglas MacArthur, because he knew that if Japan had unions it would democratize the country, it would tend to equalize incomes, and it would help resist the bellicose tendencies of the aristocratic class in Japan. And it's worked brilliantly."

"Americans have a pretty good idea of the chaos and the palace intrigues in the Trump White House. Journalists are actually doing a much better job of covering what's going on in the White House than I anticipated, partly because, even though Donald Trump is all about loyalty to Donald, there are all sorts of people eager to leak, who are in there not as close allies... and who want to position themselves for the future with journalists."

"I... watched Trump run briefly in 2000 for the nomination of the Reform Party... during that brief campaign Trump declared he would become the first person to run for president and make a profit. ...For the 2016 run, a large share of Trump's campaign money was spent paying himself for the use of his Boeing 757... in addition to his smaller jet, his helicopter, his Trump Tower office space, and other services supplied by Trump businesses."

"We have a president of the United States who is not a loyal citizen. ...ook at the email that... sent to Donald Trump Jr. ...ou want to read it carefully because the journalists... did not parse the sentences... the fourth sentence in this email makes it clear that there was an ongoing conspiracy. Collusion is not a crime. I don't care about collusion... There was an ongoing conspiracy between the Kremlin and the Trump administration. It says in the fourth line... "as part of Russia's efforts to help." That's not a "Hi, would you like to get together..?" That's "We're already sleeping together. You want to try something new?"