Trumka: Some White House trade backers 'turned out to be racist'

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By IAN KULLGREN 08/30/2017 11:30 AM EDT

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Wednesday morning that some White House aides who support free trade "turned out to be racist," after President Donald Trump held a press conference blaming both sides for the unrest at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

"You had two factions in the White House," Trumka told reporters at a breakfast roundtable hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "You had one faction that actually had some of the policies that we would have supported on trade and infrastructure, but turned out to be racist."

"And on the other hand, you had people who weren't racist, but they were Wall Street."

Trumka said he quit the White House manufacturing jobs council, which Trump later dissolved, after consulting union members who saw Trump's press conference at Trump Tower as a "spirited defense" of white supremacy and neo-Nazism.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I am so fucking god damn SICK of these CRIMINALS in my government!

[Hoyt]

2. I suspect 99% are racists. But, there are also those opposed to global trade who are Nationalists,

xenophobes, America Firsters, greedy Americans, etc., who think Americans are more important than anyone else in the world and screw some peasant in Vietnam or Mexico who might actually get a better job.

If those folks had their way, we'd own all the wealth and resources in the world and defend ourselves with our military against those who might want a share.

Believe it or not, Trumka, poor folks in foreign countries aren't scabs.

[nycbos]

3. I am SHOCKED SHOCKED...

... well not that shocked

[JI7]

4. Many of us knew that for years