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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThree 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 wont 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 presidents long-running ties to Jeffrey Epstein and the still-unresolved question of why the full Epstein files have not been released.
Trumps response wasnt 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)
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Botany
(76,463 posts)1. Trump is a pedophile and a pedophile ....
... protecter. Rember his response to releasing the Epstein Files, "a lot of my friends would be hurt.
leftstreet
(38,969 posts)3. DURec