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The Detroit News covered the event by Dementia Don meant to highlight union workers and counter president Biden traveling to Michigan to stand on the picket line alongside UAW union members. Of course like almost everything with Trump, it was a lie. There were no unions workers and they were paid $20,000 to pretend to be union workers.
About 400 to 500 Trump supporters were inside a Drake Enterprises facility for the speech. Drake Enterprises employs about 150 people, and the UAW doesn't represent its workforce. It wasn't clear how many auto workers were in the crowd for the speech, which was targeted at them.
One individual in the crowd who held a sign that said "union members for Trump," acknowledged that she wasn't a union member when approached by a Detroit News reporter after the event. Another person with a sign that read "auto workers for Trump" said he wasn't an auto worker when asked for an interview. Both people didn't provide their names.
As revealed in financial disclosure documents this week, Trump's campaign paid $20,000 to use the Drake Enterprises facility, a non-union shop, for his fake UAW speech in Michigan last September.
