David Cay Johnston

Iran Gave Trump What He Wanted; Trump Attacked Anyway Oman's foreign minister reveals Iran offered Trump deeper nuclear concessions than the 2015 Obama deal — hours before Trump launched strikes against Iran.

Iran gave Trump a huge face-saving opportunity on Friday. Instead, he started a war.
Please read my DCReport column, which provides crucial context for the widening Middle East conflict.
www.dcreport.org/2026/03/02/i...

So Marco Rubio says we attacked Iran because Israel was going to do so and we needed to act preemptively.

What was that Donald said -- "America first?"

Netanyahu is leading Trump like a farmer with a nose ring in his
biggest pig.

Iran Gave Trump What He Wanted; Trump Attacked Anyway Oman's foreign minister reveals Iran offered Trump deeper nuclear concessions than the 2015 Obama deal — hours before Trump launched strikes against Iran.

The ayatollahs made huge concessions to Trump last week, giving him a better deal than Obama got in 2015 including letting American oil companies into Iran, but Trump chose war anyway.
My latest DCREPORT column explains this little known news:
www.dcreport.org/2026/03/02/i...

From Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo news service, news that should shake your soul:

One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?

In this century we entered the world of cops paid a quarter million dollars a year. Now a police lieutenant in Oakland, Calif., is on the verge of becoming a three-quarter million dollar cop:
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

Analysis of crash data shows that you're 17 times more likely to die in a vehicle fire if you buy Elon Musk's Tesla Cyber truck than if you had bought a Ford Pinto, the 1970s era car infamous for gas tank explosions in rear end collisions.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

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Joy Reid has invited me onto her podcast tonight during the 7 PM East Coast time hour. Yay!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Image from the film 1984 with Big Brother's image on a poster hung from a government building matched to Donald Trump's poster of himself hanging on the Department of Justice building.

But of course...

Much as I've been critical of Gorsuch's sometimes coldly cruel
jurisprudence in my books and columns, I think here he was trying to find an analogy that simpletons could grasp.

YouTube video by DCReport Reality Check: Why Prince Andrew’s Arrest Should Worry Donald Trump #PrinceAndrew #DavidCayJohnston

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten–Windsor is a major legal and political blow for Donald Trump, as I explain in this two minute Reality Check video for DCREPORT.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc4j...

Bravo

YouTube video by DCReport Reality Check: Is “National Security” Being Used to Expand Presidential Power? #nationalsecurity

An important story that our big news organizations are flubbing, a story that should alarm you about the how the Trump dictatorship is consolidating power: www.youtube.com/shorts/APlMo...

David Cay Johnston Explains Why His Name Appears in Epstein Files — and Why Trump’s Redactions Matter David Cay Johnston explains why his name appears in the Epstein files, why context matters, and why Trump’s redactions raise urgent transparency concerns.

Guess who's in the Epstein files and proud to be there:
www.dcreport.org/2026/02/17/d...

Chidinma Anyanwu (@amay.a100) on Threads President Obama and Michelle at the NBA All Star game. Notice no boos

Trump gets booed at sporting events, JD Vance, too. SO what happened when the Obamas attended the NBA All Star game.
www.threads.com/@amay.a100/p...

Rigging Elections, Trump Style Kristi Noem’s Arizona comments about “the right people voting” spark concerns over Trump administration efforts to influence the 2026 and 2028 elections.

My new DCReport column explores the latest Trump regime push to rig our 2026 elections, a story every major news organization missed.
www.dcreport.org/2026/02/15/r...

For all it's advanced regard for fellow citizens, Norway clearly has some problems with racism, including not only foreigners of color, but the native Sami people. Sad.

Breaking Valentine's Day story from the Winter Olympics per @nydailynews.com --

What the congressman reports below is disgusting.
He reveals the utter lack of decency and humanity in the Trump administration, especially in the telling detail at the end.

The lyric says “young ladies, young ladies, I like them under age/some say that’s voluntary, but I say it’s mandatory.”

A “Christian” broadcaster, offended that Bad Bunny is doing the Super Bowl halftime show, will counter-program with Kid Rock.
Read the lyrics below and ask you what that says about people who claimed to be Christian and promote songs glorifying rape.

Delighted today to see that Lawrence O'donnell is using the term I've been working to popularize for several months - quisling Republicans.

Remember, when Donald Trump said returning him to office would end tyrannical government censorship…
So much freedom:

Text box: greatest sentence ever in a film review… If Melania were shown on a plane, people would still walk out.

Truth:

The Reutersjournalist in the image below has worked all over the world and is deeply experienced in military and intelligence matters. His post should alarm you.

Veep Vance is such a gentleman. Here he is on a military helicopter pilot who lost her lower legs in combat.
“Watching Tammy Duckworth obsessively interrupt Marco Rubio during this hearing is like watching Forrest Gump argue with Isaac Newton."
Such a role model.

Unknown.

Ghislaine Maxwell, in a court filing, claims that "25 men" made secret deals not to be prosecuted over child sexual abuse, The Daily Beast reports.
Keep in mind that Donald says releasing the files will hurt some of his "friends."
Release the Epstein files!

More bad news for Donald, this time from Bloomberg on the economic front:

The Saturday murder has brought out Donald's feral side.
No one in his circle is safe when he's in feral mode because it's all about protecting himself from what he sees as a danger.

Chodes?

YouTube video by DCReport Trump’s Greenland Claim Is a National Security Myth | Reality Check with David Cay Johnston

Trump's theory of why the US needs to control Greenland has it exactly upside down.
My latest brief video for DCREPORT.org explain explains.
youtube.com/shorts/kx8yN...