TEHRAN (FNA)- David Cay Johnston, author and investigative journalist, says the US President’s moves, such as misusing the constitution and strengthening the ties with the wealthy corporations, indicate he is planning to “stay in office for life”.
Speaking in an interview with FNA, Johnston said, “I have called Trump the leading domestic enemy of the American Constitution […] He claims the American Constitution gives him the power to do anything he wants, which is manifestly false.”
David Cay Boyle 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. From 2009 to 2016 he was a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer who taught the tax, property, and regulatory law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law and the Whitman School of Management. Johnston is the board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: President Trump's bailout for the corporations was huge, and relatively small for the average and low-income families. Why does he worsen the inequality, specially now during the coronavirus outbreak?
A: Congress, not the president, controls American government appropriations. Trump & Co. use the money to benefit the biggest and wealthiest corporations instead of the small businesses and laid off workers most in need because they care about their cronies, not Joe and Joan Average American. He has administered by Team Trump The relief to big business became a program to strengthen ties between the biggest banks and their biggest and most lucrative customers.
Trump speaks of inequality, often using my words, only to trick the poorly educated into believing he is their champion.
Q: What was the reason for Trump's fiery comments on early peaceful protests, which many believe fanned the flame and turned them to violent protests?
A: Donald Trump is a racist, as various judicial proceedings showed over his discriminating against black, Asian and Hispanic people and women. In 2017 he urged police to physically abuse suspects, who wonder American law or innocent until proven guilty. His comments have received true sharp rebukes from many police organizations.
A man who has small children torn from their mothers’ arms and put in cages — about 60,000 children seeking asylum — does not care about the mistreatment of black Americans by police.
Q: Considering Trump's policies in corona, recent unrest, withdrawing from international treaties and accord, etc. is he blocking his return to the White House in 2021?
A: Donald Trump wants to become America’s dictator. He jokes about staying in office for life and praises the dictatorial regimes in Riyadh, Egypt, the Philippines, and other emerging dictatorships. I have called Trump the leading domestic enemy of the American Constitution, a document which he does not respect or understand. He claims the American Constitution gives him the power to do anything he wants, which is manifestly false.
Trump denounces polls showing he will lose the popular vote. He can still get a second term; however, as he did in 2016 by winning enough states in the Electoral College. Sadly, leaders of the republican party have abandoned all of their state of principles and become moral jellyfish-blind, spineless and adrift in the waves of chaos flowing from the Trump White House.
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