Did you know there is documented proof that Trump has been sued 4,500 times? Most of it for graft and corruption? This is our president.

Probably less than 1/10th.   I'm listeing to a video by David Cay Johnston and he said on the video this piece of news.  I am looking for it in print.  But I'll send the video if you want.

The journalist David Cay Johnston has been following Donald Trump for three decades — when he wasn’t covering the businessman-turned-president himself, he says, “I was feeding stories about him to other reporters just because I had other fish to fry.” Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, compiles a dossier of sorts in his new book, It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, which focuses on policy over personality. TIME spoke with Johnston following the book’s publication to talk about the president, “political termites,” and that other Trump book, Fire and Fury.

TME: You first met Trump in 1988. How? What have your interactions been since then?

Johnston: I had left the Los Angeles Times to go to Atlantic City for the Philadelphia Inquirer, because I believed casino gambling was going to spread all across the country as the result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision. I met Donald within a couple of days of being there, briefly. Donald, as I began to learn over time, was malicious. And it was obvious that he was the most important figure in town. But I also realized that he was a revealing cultural force in the country. Back then, Donald would plant all sorts of stories, and people just reported what he said. I, like Wayne Barrett and Neil Barsky, I would check what Donald said against the facts, and he wasn’t used to that.

Have you interacted with him since you started this book?

The last time Donald and I spoke was in April of 2016, during the campaign. He called me at home to do what he’s done many times when he’s called me at home: threatened to sue me. He’s been threatening to sue me since 1989. He never has, he never will.

Are you now full-on anti-Trump?

It’s just my job. You can have a great time talking to Donald. I happen to know him better than anybody else and I fact-check him, and Donald is used to creating his own reality. He makes stuff up, or makes assertions, invents lovers like Madonna and Carla Bruni and Kim Basinger. There are journalists out there who don’t care about the facts, they just want a good story. And he likes those kinds of journalists. So when he wants fake news, those are the people he turns to. There’s no animosity about it, it’s just my job. In this case, however, Donald is a very important story. And people still do not understand who he really is.
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Let’s talk about your book. Do you think the palace intrigue in a book like Fire and Fury and in news reports distracts from the severity of what’s going on?

Yes. Michael Wolff’s book, first of all, confirms what I reported in The Making of Donald Trump. He’s basically a gossip reporter so I have no doubt that you can find things in his book that aren’t right, but it fundamentally rings true. The rest of the stuff about the palace intrigue, it’s really interesting, I read it all, I would be reading it if I weren’t doing this stuff, but it’s not about what Trump’s doing to you. I’m not a politics person, I’m a policy guy. My whole life, I’ve made it a point to cover Washington, when I do it, from afar.

Thanks for the info.

I put that stuff up so I can read it.  I don't think they mentioned the 4,500 lawsuits but David Cay is very trustworthy.   He wrote this and announced this on the video.    I cannot believe this is not out there more.  I have to check