Former President Donald Trump has been accused of filling a car worker rally in Michigan with non-union staff.
Trump gave a speech at Drake Enterprises, a non-unionized auto parts supplier in Clinton Township, where he sought to appeal to auto workers as he railed against Biden’s push for electric cars and downplayed the UAW strike.
“You’re all on the picket lines and everything, but it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference what you get, because in two years you’re all going to be out of business,” he said.
However, the make-up of the audience at the event came under scrutiny after it was reported that at least some of the people in the crowd were not union members or even auto workers, despite the speech being directed at them.
The Detroit News reported that there were about 400 to 500 Trump supporters in the audience at the event, which was filled with pro-Trump signs and MAGA hats. Drake Enterprises says it employs over 125 people at the facility. The UAW does not represent its workforce.
One person in the crowd who held a “union members for Trump” sign acknowledged, when approached by a reporter, that she wasn’t a union member, while another person who had a sign that read “auto workers for Trump” said he was not an auto worker when asked for an interview. Neither person provided their names, the newspaper said.
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It looks like the Trump campaign had paid ringers in Michigan today pretending to be union auto workers.
Everything around Trump is fraudulent. pic.twitter.com/IGR9WyLohS
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