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Time -Timothy Mellon, a billionaire who was born into one of the wealthiest families in the U.S., has donated $50 million to the Trump campaign super-pac Make America Great Again Inc., according to federal filings released on Thursday. Mellon’s contribution is now considered to be the largest disclosed individual donation in the 2024 election.

 

Republicans against Trump  - “Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?" Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper revealed that Trump wanted the military to shoot protesters in the summer of 2020. Video

 

David Corn -  Okay, let's apply this test to Donald Trump.

 

Forward Kentucky - During his decades as a wealthy businessman, Trump clashed with unions repeatedly. And, upon becoming President, he appointed people much like himself — from corporate backgrounds and hostile toward workers ― to head key government agencies and departments. Naturally, an avalanche of anti-union policies followed. Under Trump, the National Labor Relations Board ― the federal agency enforcing the nation’s fundamental labor law, the National Labor Relations Act ― led the charge. Instead of following the intent of the 1935 legislation, which was to guarantee the right of workers to union representation, the Trump NLRB widened the basis for denying that right. According to the NLRB, the nearly two million Uber and Lyft drivers, as well as other workers in the gig economy, were not really workers, but independent contractors and, as such, not entitled to a union. The NLRB also proposed depriving graduate teaching assistants and other student employees at private universities of the right to organize unions and collectively bargain.

When it came to the reduced number of workers still eligible to form a union, the Trump NLRB adopted new rules making it more difficult for them to win the employee elections necessary for union representation. The NLRB hindered union activists’ ability to organize workers during non-working hours and, also, allowed employers to gerrymander bargaining units. In March 2020, the Trump NLRB used the excuse of the Covid-19 pandemic to suspend all union representation elections and, thereafter, allowed mail ballot elections only if the employer agreed to them.

Unlike their Trump-appointed managers, many NLRB employees, as career civil servants, resented the agency’s shift toward anti-union policies and sought to enforce what labor rights remained under the National Labor Relations Act. But the new management undermined their ability to protect workers’ rights by refusing to fill vacancies, thereby hollowing out the agency. As a result, the number of NLRB staff members dropped by nearly 20 percent.

Major federal departments moved in the same anti-union direction. Trump’s Department of Education scrapped collective bargaining with the American Federation of Government Employees and unilaterally imposed a contract curtailing the union rights of the department’s 3,900 workers. Trump’s Department of Labor removed requirements that employers disclose their use of “union-busting” law firms. 

Daily Kos - Donald Trump vowed at a rally Tue­­­sday that if reelected, he’ll cut funding to every school with a vaccine mandate ― even though all 50 states have such laws on the books. “I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate,” he declared at his rally in Racine, Wisconsin. The crowd went wild.
It’s a promise he’s made several times in recent months, repeating the same line verbatim at rallies in March and May. If he followed through on that, no school in the United States would receive federal funding. All 50 states and Washington, D.C., have laws requiring specific vaccines for students, including measles, rubella, chickenpox, tetanus, pertussis and polio. Exemptions to the rule vary by state, with California, New York and a handful of other states maintaining the strictest mandates.

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