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David Cay Johnston: NZ's objective with Trump should be 'to not become the focus of his wrath'

Under the leadership of President Donald Trump there's a danger the United States will become an autocratic nation, not unlike China, Saudi Arabia or Russia, and New Zealand should strive to avoid becoming the focus of Trump's wrath, suggests David Cay Johnston.

Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, co-founder of DCReport and journalism professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, spoke to interest.co.nz in a new episode of the Of Interest podcast.

Johnston first met Trump in Atlantic City in 1988, and has probed and written about the affairs of Trump for decades…

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