we will speak to pulitzer prize winning journalist david cay johnson who has been reporting on trumpor decades. then voters are heading to the polls for a mayoral election in chicago and for a critical supreme court election in wisconsin.

we will speak to pulitzer prize winning journalist david cay johnson who has been reporting on trump for decades. then voters are heading to the polls for a mayoral election in chicago and for a critical supreme court election in wisconsin. we will talk to mother jones reporter ari berman about how this race could decide the fate of democracy in wisconsin and the 2024 election. then finland joined nato. >> today is an historic day because we will welcome finland as the 31st member of our alliance. this will make finland safer and nato stronger. amy: we will go to finland and germany for a debate. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. former president donald trump is expected to turn himself in and face criminal charges in a new york city court. the case stems from hush money payments trump made to adult film star stormy daniels during -- days before the 2016 presidential election, just days after the release of the infamous "access hollywood" tape in which trump brags about sexually assaulting women. whil

david cay johnson has written about this. he was on your program yesterday.he has been under regular audit year after year by the irs who -- and there never seems to be any resolution. it turns out the irs was so strapped it its budget, they just had what auditor on this massive commercial sprawling empire of trump, using every possible tax evasion, tax avoidance system imaginable. so he really has gotten away with it. but worse, he worked with the republicans year after year in starting the irs budget so that he could not have the skilled auditors to go after the tax evasion of the superrich and the multinational corporations. one study out of berkeley pointed out over 20% of the top superrich americans in the united states were even aiding billions and billions of dollars in taxes and the irs was handcuffed. to this day, the irs is under pressure by the republicans going after their budget -- fortunately, they don't control the senate so they cannot get it through. clearly, trump and the republican were actively, purposefully engaged in aiding and abetting