This week in our crazy, insane Trump-infested world —

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• Don Trump continues his magic touch in endorsements, hanging tough with North Carolina Black Nazi Mark Robinson even as the gubernatorial candidate’s campaign staff bails out. Robinson is the latest Trumper in a pantheon of bizarre losers that includes Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker and our very own Tudor Dixon and Matt DePerno.
  
• Trump has also found time to start up a couple more grifts to go with his digital ego cards, Bibles and golden sneakers. The guy who once described crypto currency as a scam now has his crypto business, and he’s also marketing Trump commemorative coins. This comes as Trump’s Truth Social stock hits an all-time low, down more than 80% in the last year.
  
• A single courageous Republican in Nebraska has stopped still another Trump campaign effort to rig the 2024 vote. Needless to say, the Donald is not happy and will retaliate.
  
• Republicans complaining about the feds targeting them for criminal charges get another shot in their face with New York City’s Mayor, a Democrat, indicted along with multiple appointees.
  
• Gretchen Whitmer reveals her secret of political success to talk-show host Andy Cohen: getting shit done.
  
• Both presidential campaigns have issued the outlines of an economic game plan.
  
• Florida bans instruction on contraception and consent in sex ed classes
  
• Obama and Biden achievements that Trump claims for himself
  
• Democrats won complete power in Michigan. Republicans are trying to take it away.
  

A major part of this week’s discussion: Jeff’s insider’s look at the strategy and tactics of The Lincoln Project.

Joining the conversation: Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston. He is the bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump and It’s Even Worse Than You Think. David has lectured on economics, journalism, and tax policy on every continent except Antarctica and is a former president of Investigative Reporters & Editors. Johnston has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, ABC World News Tonight, Democracy Now!, and NPR’s Morning Edition (among other shows), and was a consultant for the Netflix series House of Cards.

Currently both a national columnist at professor of practice at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Johnston began his career at the San Jose Mercury News from 1968 to 1973, when he moved to Lansing to continue his education at Michigan State. While there, he wrote an internal textbook (A Guide to Public Records) for the university’s journalism department. From 1973 to 1976, he was an investigative reporter at the Detroit Free Press in its Lansing bureau. One of his investigative reports resulted in the Lansing CBS affiliate’s owner being forced by the FCC to sell the station because of news manipulation. He is an expert on the financial crimes and scams of Donald Trump.

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