In a rare occurrence, the head of one of America’s largest and oldest labor unions spoke about corporate greed at a Republican National Convention.  “The Teamsters are here to say we are not beholden to anyone or any party,” Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, told convention delegates Monday night. O’Brien said he was invited to speak at the convention by former President Donald Trump, who watched the entire speech, along with others, while seated in the convention hall. “I don’t care about getting criticized. It’s an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican National Convention,” O’Brien said. The Teamsters have not yet endorsed a presidential candidate, though the union endorsed President Joe Biden in 2020. O’Brien has praised Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, among a few other Republican lawmakers, for what he characterized as pro-union policies. Trump announced earlier Monday that Vance would be his running mate.  He said he wanted to build a bipartisan coalition to support American workers. He also said he sought to speak to both the Republican and Democratic conventions. He did note that in the past the Teamsters endorsed Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, all Republicans.  O’Brien said his decision to speak at the GOP gathering caused “political unrest.” “Anti-union groups demanded the president rescind his invitation,” he said. “The Left called me a traitor. This is precisely why it’s so important for me to be here today. Think about this. I must be doing something correct if the extremes in both parties think I shouldn’t be on this stage.” O’Brien praised Vance, as well as Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Brian  Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., for what he characterized as listening to unions and standing up to corporations.  “The Teamsters and the GOP may not agree on a lot of issue, but a growing group has shown the courage to sit down and consider points of view that aren’t funded by big money think tanks,” O’Brien said.  The union leader said corporations have their own union in the form of groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable.  O’Brien said “elites have no party and no nation,” but are only loyal to their balance sheets  He called for what he characterized as more pro-worker trade policies as well as policies that prevent companies from leaving the United States to improve their bottom line. The Teamsters president also decried what he called “economic terrorism” by companies that prevent employees from unionizing.  He called for “corporate welfare reform,” noting the amount of government subsidies massive corporations such as Amazon, Uber, and Lyft are getting.  “These companies offer no real health insurance, no retirement benefits, no paid leave, [and are] relying on underfunded public assistance,” O’Brien said. “And who foots the bill? The individual taxpayer. The biggest recipients of welfare in this country are corporations, and this is real corruption. We must put workers first.”  The post Teamsters Chief Praises JD Vance, Among Other GOP Lawmakers, at Convention appeared first on The Daily Signal.

PBS’s coverage of Night One of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee got off to a bad start during an interview with Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, who’d just delivered an early speech to the convention delegates. At 8:07 ET, News Hour co-anchor Geoff Bennett, who was hosting the network’s taxpayer-funded convention coverage along with fellow News Hour co-anchor Amna Nawaz, challenged Johnson on the ability of Donald Trump to change the tone after his near-assassination, attacking Trump with three accusations, one ridiculous, one false. What responsibility do you think Donald Trump has himself to turn down the temperature? Because he in the past, he’s called his political enemies ‘vermin,’ he’s called some undocumented immigrants ‘animals,’ he’s said there’ll be a ‘bloodbath’ if he’s not elected in November.” So, one out of three ain’t bad? Trump did indeed call the “undocumented immigrants” known as the deadly gang MS-13 “animals.” So? As for “bloodbath,” Bennett was repeating the same ridiculous liberal whopper that he told back on the News Hour in March 2024, after Trump made comments at a campaign rally in Ohio. Trump was talking about tariffs, saying that if he didn’t get elected it would be a “bloodbath” for the American auto industry. Back then Bennett said, “Extremism experts say it's the latest example of Donald Trump using violent rhetoric to appeal to his supporters.”     But perhaps the most awkward and sharpest exchange of the night came, after all things, a speech from social media influencer Amber Rose at 10:21 p.m. ET, in the third and final hour, when Capehart sparred with Bennett over the host stating accurately that the left has “vilified” Donald Trump. BENNETT: “Jonathan Capehart [laughs] that look you just gave me. CAPEHART: Gotta give me a heads up! [laughs] [Crosstalk] NAWAZ: Jonathan Capehart, your thoughts? BENNETT: “It strikes me, when she says, the left told me to hate Trump, but when you cut through the lies you’ll realize that life was better under him. That’s a resonant argument for a lot of people, now of course you have to discount the fact that there was a hundred-year pandemic and everything that resulted from that. But if you clip that and put it on Instagram, among, you know, the people that follow her, that could pick up a lot of traction, that resonates with folks. Capehart, a PBS News Hour regular holding up the liberal side alongside “conservative” voice David Brooks on Friday evenings, often seems unable to process the occasional discordant non-liberal views from the hosts. His reply carried a petulant tone: CAPEHART: Sure, and I would love to ask her, what lies? It’s one thing, you can say, when I cut through the lies, what lies are those? And then please tell me, how do you counter those lies you’re talking about with the actual data that’s there. We can talk about the emotions, because economics are emotional, and if people don’t feel it I get it--   BENNETT: In fairness, the left has vilified Donald Trump. A snotty, defensive Capehart demanded: “I’m sorry, define vilified.” After an awkward two-second pause, Bennett repeated his accusation. BENNETT: You can argue the merits, but in fairness, the left has vilified Donald Trump. Threat to democracy, that he’s a proto-fascist-- Capehart: --is that a vilification, is that a vilification, I don’t mean to argue with you, Geoff, I disagree with this notion that the left has vilified Donald Trump. The left has pointed out multiple things as president, has said as president, as a candidate for the presidency again, that deserve to be pointed out, deserve to be criticized, that’s not vilification, that is acknowledging what is there for everyone to see. Now, if someone had called him all sorts of names in addition to that, the name-calling I would say is vilification, but the substance of what people are talking about, you can’t call that vilification when you’re hammering the guy on his, on what he proposes for the country and to do to the country. So calling Trump a “fascist” and comparing him to Adolf Hitler, as the left and pockets of the media has done for years, is somehow not vilification?

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