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marmar

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Thu Jan 15, 2026, 10:17 AM Yesterday

Three seconds on a Michigan factory floor told the truth too many in power won't say out loud


Three seconds on a Michigan factory floor told the truth too many in power won’t say out loud
Jon King


(Michigan Advance) For three seconds on the floor of a Ford Motor Co. plant in Dearborn, a solitary autoworker did what the political establishment has largely failed to do for three months: remind the country exactly who its president is.

As Michigan Advance reported, when Donald Trump walked through the facility Tuesday, a worker in a now-viral video shouted that Trump was a “pedophile protector,” a reference to the president’s long-running ties to Jeffrey Epstein and the still-unresolved question of why the full Epstein files have not been released.

Trump’s response wasn’t denial, reflection or restraint. He flipped off that Ford employee, since identified as 40-year-old TJ Sabula, a line worker and member of UAW Local 600.

That moment — crude, unpresidential and unmistakable — cut through weeks of both-sides noise and strategic silence. In one exchange, the country saw the same man it has seen for nearly a decade: thin-skinned, angry at accountability, and hostile to anyone who challenges him, especially working people. ...................(more)

https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/14/three-seconds-on-a-michigan-factory-floor-told-the-truth-too-many-in-power-wont-say-out-loud/




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Three seconds on a Michigan factory floor told the truth too many in power won't say out loud (Original Post) marmar Yesterday OP
Trump is a pedophile and a pedophile .... Botany Yesterday #1
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Botany

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1. Trump is a pedophile and a pedophile ....
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 10:44 AM
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... protecter. Rember his response to releasing the Epstein Files, "a lot of my friends would be hurt.

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