By: Michael Shure Published in: *The Mark Thompson Show* Date: January 22, 2025 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NeqYaXYf2w
"David Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. . . . Johnston is currently a Professor of Practice in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology, and has also served as Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at College of Law and the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. . . . In 2016, Johnston released *The Making of Donald Trump*, a journalistic account of the rise of businessperson-turned-presidential candidate Donald Trump. At the time he wrote the book, Johnston had known Trump for 28 years. The book was on the *New York Times* bestseller list."
