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UCmeNdc

(9,655 posts)
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:13 PM Sep 2023

Donald Trump fakes the whole Autoworkers event in Michigan. He hired actors and staff to pose for TV

BREAKING: Donald Trump is caught in a jaw-dropping fake event scandal as it's revealed that the rally he supposedly held for auto workers and union members in Michigan was a complete farce.

This is bad, even for a reality television host...

According to credible reporting by The Detroit News, the crowd at the event was DEEPLY suspicious. Their reporter attended the rally and discovered that one of the women holding a "union members for Trump" sign wasn't actually a union member.

In fact, it's unclear if any of the people in the crowd belong to a union.

Another attendee holding an "auto workers for Trump" sign admitted that he was not a union worker. Again, it's unclear how many people present were actually workers at all.

The event drew only 500 or so people — either actors or just fanatical Trump supporters — and the automotive parts supplier where it was held is a non-union shop with just 150 workers.

In other words, Donald Trump meticulously constructed a ruse to convince voters that he is pro-worker despite belonging to a party that solely defends the interests of bosses and corporations.

The charade contrasts sharply with Joe Biden who appeared on the picket line in solidarity with the United Auto Workers Union which currently has 18,300 workers on strike. It was the first time in history that a president has joined a picket.

Shawn Fain, the President of United Auto Workers, refused to meet with Trump and correctly stated that the ex-president "serves the billionaire class" and said that his decision to appear at a non-unionized facility a "pathetic irony."

Donald Trump is trying to trick pro-union and pro-worker voters to support him in 2024. Unfortunately for him, they see right through his lies.


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Donald Trump fakes the whole Autoworkers event in Michigan. He hired actors and staff to pose for TV (Original Post) UCmeNdc Sep 2023 OP
"Union Members For Trump" "Turkeys For Thanksgiving". The Unmitigated Gall Sep 2023 #1
I'm shocked. captain queeg Sep 2023 #2
I hope they were paid union wages. 😁 gab13by13 Sep 2023 #3
The Trump production clown show. pwb Sep 2023 #4
The Grift NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 #5
Another day another fraud. The_Casual_Observer Sep 2023 #6
He hired actors for his big escalator moment in 2015 and staff at first CIA visit underpants Sep 2023 #7
and remember Brooks Brothers in 2000 MadameButterfly Sep 2023 #9
That protest theater was so disruptive that it halted the governmental count of the votes. John1956PA Sep 2023 #12
I recall that eventually all the participants were ID'd, & as the years went on they rose in the GOP Hekate Sep 2023 #13
They were Congressional staffers and operatives including Matt Schlapp underpants Sep 2023 #14
He blathered while standing before the "Wall of Heros." John1956PA Sep 2023 #10
Next thing you know he'll claim George Soros planted KS Toronado Sep 2023 #8
It would be a jaw-dropping fake event for anyone else gratuitous Sep 2023 #11
Bingo TheRealNorth Sep 2023 #15
Maybe he hired the same people Eyeball_Kid Sep 2023 #16
come on internet sleuths. i.d. these maga trumpers. bullimiami Sep 2023 #17
Straight out of Central casting Walleye Sep 2023 #18

The Unmitigated Gall

(4,710 posts)
1. "Union Members For Trump" "Turkeys For Thanksgiving".
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:17 PM
Sep 2023

Orange Rape's Labor Department. Was a Nightmare for working people. And it wasn't all that long ago.

NowISeetheLight

(4,002 posts)
5. The Grift
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:21 PM
Sep 2023

I'm sure he paid them the minimum wage while utilizing funds from his "Stop the Steal" grift fund.

underpants

(197,157 posts)
7. He hired actors for his big escalator moment in 2015 and staff at first CIA visit
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:23 PM
Sep 2023
Trump paid actors to cheer his 2016 launch: report
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/245359-trump-paid-actors-to-cheer-his-2016-launch-report/

The new 2016 contender paid extras $50 to participate in his kickoff Tuesday from New York City’s Trump Tower, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Trump Reportedly Brought His Own Staff to Cheer During C.I.A. Speech
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/donald-trump-cia-speech

One official told CBS News that much of the applause had come from the roughly 40 people who had been brought by Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Mike Pompeo, Trump’s nominee to lead the spy agency. According to the official, the senior C.I.A. leaders in attendance withheld their applause, particularly as Trump launched an attack on the “dishonest media” over the reporting of his inauguration crowd size. The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler made a similar claim on Twitter, writing that “the folks in the front apparently didn’t react until the end.” NBC’s Katie Tur noted that “senior leadership remained stoic, and did not applaud the more political lines.”

MadameButterfly

(4,153 posts)
9. and remember Brooks Brothers in 2000
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:32 PM
Sep 2023

Bush vs. Gore. Actors demonstrating against the Florida election recount. Before Republicans were for state recounts of elections.

John1956PA

(5,118 posts)
12. That protest theater was so disruptive that it halted the governmental count of the votes.
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:35 PM
Sep 2023

Those posers should have been charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
13. I recall that eventually all the participants were ID'd, & as the years went on they rose in the GOP
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:37 PM
Sep 2023

So that the most recent year when someone recited their names, nearly all were recognizable as prominent GOP operatives.




underpants

(197,157 posts)
14. They were Congressional staffers and operatives including Matt Schlapp
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:41 PM
Sep 2023
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https://immigrationcourtside.com/2019/11/18/great-moments-in-u-s-history-with-heather-cox-richardson-al-kamen-reliving-the-brooks-brothers-riots-of-00-al-gore-thought-the-recount-was-a-high-min/

Some of those pictured have gone on to other things, including stints at the White House. For example, Matt Schlapp, No. 6, a former House aide and then a Bush campaign aide, has risen to be White House political director. Garry Malphrus, No. 2 in the photo, a former staff director of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice, is now deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. And Rory Cooper, No. 3, who was at the National Republican Congressional Committee, later worked at the White House Homeland Security Council and was seen last week working for the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

Here’s what some of the others went on to do:

No. 1. Tom Pyle, who had worked for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), went private sector a few months later, getting a job as director of federal affairs for Koch Industries.

No. 7. Roger Morse, another House aide, moved on to the law and lobbying firm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds. “I was also privileged to lead a team of Republicans to Florida to help in the recount fight,” he told a legal trade magazine in a 2003 interview.

No. 8. Duane Gibson, an aide on the House Resources Committee, was a solo lobbyist and formerly with the Greenberg Traurig lobby operation. He is now with the Livingston Group as a consultant.

No. 9. Chuck Royal was and still is a legislative assistant to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a former House member.

https://immigrationcourtside.com/2019/11/18/great-moments-in-u-s-history-with-heather-cox-richardson-al-kamen-reliving-the-brooks-brothers-riots-of-00-al-gore-thought-the-recount-was-a-high-min/

John1956PA

(5,118 posts)
10. He blathered while standing before the "Wall of Heros."
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:32 PM
Sep 2023

It was his first speech as POTUS, and it was a disgrace.

KS Toronado

(23,849 posts)
8. Next thing you know he'll claim George Soros planted
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:30 PM
Sep 2023

all the non-union people. Lying comes natural & easy for P01135809.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
11. It would be a jaw-dropping fake event for anyone else
Thu Sep 28, 2023, 02:33 PM
Sep 2023

But the popular media have an inexhaustible supply of good faith that they attribute to anything the defendant says or does. He said he's meeting with union workers? Then all those people must be union members! No need even to ask any of them.

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