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Eugene

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Thu Sep 28, 2023, 08:01 AM Sep 2023

Some Attendees At Donald Trump's Autoworkers Speech Were Total Frauds: Report [View all]

Source: HuffPost

Some Attendees At Donald Trump's Autoworkers Speech Were Total Frauds: Report

The crowd included people exposed by a local newspaper for carrying misleading signs.

By Ron Dicker
Sep 28, 2023, 07:01 AM EDT | Updated 18 minutes ago

Some attendees at Donald Trump’s speech about the autoworkers’ strike Wednesday apparently were shills carrying signs falsely identifying them as union members, the Detroit News reported.

One person held a sign that said “union members for Trump,” but admitted to the newspaper she was not a union member. Another carried a placard with the words “auto workers for Trump” and confessed he was not an auto worker when the outlet requested an interview. Neither identified themselves.

Trump visited Michigan to show solidarity with striking United Auto Workers members, but instead stoked fear about electric cars to the crowd at a nonunion auto parts supplier. He warned workers that they would be out of a job in a few years, even if they secured sought-after salary increases.

“Your current negotiations don’t mean as much as you think,” he said.

The affiliations of the guests receiving his message came into question. ...

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-autoworkers-signs_n_65154473e4b05bd1c4d62583

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Replace that with many or most. Just another manufactured trump event. bullimiami Sep 2023 #1
I don't understand why didn't news media reports on this guy at all. He's been proven a fraud Walleye Sep 2023 #2
Actually I thought they would all be frauds. fredamoss3 Sep 2023 #3
The factory employs 150 and there were over 500. Of course they were mostly frauds. bullimiami Sep 2023 #4
I wonder how much they got paid? Hopefully they got it in cash up front. captain queeg Sep 2023 #5
Not union wage, that is for sure. twodogsbarking Sep 2023 #14
I doubt they even got minimum wage JoseBalow Sep 2023 #37
If 200 local loons showed up and Beachnutt Sep 2023 #6
There's always at least one total fraud at a Trump speech Effete Snob Sep 2023 #7
Took me a second. But only one. Excellent! erronis Sep 2023 #19
Zackly Permanut Sep 2023 #43
it's funny that he didn't tell them onethatcares Sep 2023 #8
It's always staged with the malaise Sep 2023 #9
Corporate Media silence on this... Think. Again. Sep 2023 #10
Corporate media will not allow reporting on news contrary to its corporate interests. Magoo48 Sep 2023 #17
Well said. Think. Again. Sep 2023 #20
The story is linked to "The Detroit News"... MiHale Sep 2023 #22
My apologies... Think. Again. Sep 2023 #23
No problem i thought I missed something...😴🤔 MiHale Sep 2023 #25
See? Tell Kevin Sorbo and Scott Baio there are plenty of acting jobs available for them! tanyev Sep 2023 #11
Lololol blm Sep 2023 #21
Totally unaffected by the writers' strike, too! gratuitous Sep 2023 #35
Drake Enterprise employs 100 workers, gab13by13 Sep 2023 #12
And drake is a non-union shop. niyad Sep 2023 #34
Is there a reason TFG thinks EVs aren't built in auto sinkingfeeling Sep 2023 #13
We all know the reason JoseBalow Sep 2023 #38
Typical Trump. dalton99a Sep 2023 #15
tRump, Fraud? SHOCKing! lastlib Sep 2023 #16
Yeah, I mean it's not like we have a 40+ year history of this or anything. 4lbs Sep 2023 #33
Shills. Plants. Stooges. Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #18
It takes a village JoseBalow Sep 2023 #39
knew it the second we saw the signs.. Peacetrain Sep 2023 #24
KNR Hekate Sep 2023 #26
Astroturf. 2naSalit Sep 2023 #27
a "incoherent" and "a pathetic, recycled attempt to feign support for working Americans." ffr Sep 2023 #28
BBC last night reported he spoke at a 'union' rally. Repeatedly. cbabe Sep 2023 #29
Damn near everything is fraudulent. Jay25 Sep 2023 #30
Well . . . AverageOldGuy Sep 2023 #31
Somewhere on a freelance jobsite we should be able to find Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2023 #32
I'm sure no one here is surprised Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2023 #36
He was speaking at a non-union shop, at the invitation of its owner. surrealAmerican Sep 2023 #40
So everyone there was a fraud? My sources say "yes". twodogsbarking Sep 2023 #41
We already know that he pays people to show up at his "events," starting with the escalator Rhiannon12866 Sep 2023 #42
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