On the day of Donald Trump's historic arraignment in New York, making him the first former president ever to be criminally charged, we speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump for decades. Trump is said to face 34 felony counts for falsifying business records. The case centers in part on hush-money payments Trump made during the 2016 presidential campaign to adult film star Stormy Daniels. After his appearance before a judge in Manhattan, where he is expected to plead not guilty to all charges, Trump will fly back to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where he will speak publicly later in the day. "Hopefully this is the beginning of a revival and a renewal of American democracy," says Johnston, co-founder of the news site DCReport and author of _The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family_. Johnston also teaches at Syracuse University College of Law.

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