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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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The Unmitigated Gall
(4,710 posts)Orange Rape's Labor Department. Was a Nightmare for working people. And it wasn't all that long ago.
captain queeg
(11,780 posts)gab13by13
(32,751 posts)pwb
(12,800 posts)So unnatural.
NowISeetheLight
(4,002 posts)I'm sure he paid them the minimum wage while utilizing funds from his "Stop the Steal" grift fund.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)underpants
(197,157 posts)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 Citys 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, Trumps 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 Posts Glenn Kessler made a similar claim on Twitter, writing that the folks in the front apparently didnt react until the end. NBCs Katie Tur noted that senior leadership remained stoic, and did not applaud the more political lines.
MadameButterfly
(4,153 posts)Bush vs. Gore. Actors demonstrating against the Florida election recount. Before Republicans were for state recounts of elections.
John1956PA
(5,118 posts)Those posers should have been charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)So that the most recent year when someone recited their names, nearly all were recognizable as prominent GOP operatives.
underpants
(197,157 posts)
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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.
Heres 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)It was his first speech as POTUS, and it was a disgrace.
KS Toronado
(23,849 posts)all the non-union people. Lying comes natural & easy for P01135809.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)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.
TheRealNorth
(9,647 posts)And thats how it was reported by several outlets.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)who cheered him as he rode the escalator in 2015.