Class traitor
user
A few things to note here. 

1. Neither he personally, nor the teamsters endorsed any Republican including Trump.

2. He spoke as a Teamster, spoke about union issues, and spoke about corporate greed. If not for the setting, this is a normal union speech (minus the complementing Trump on his strength, but that could be playing to the crowd).

3. He and the Teamsters seem to be explicit that they want both parties to realize the value and importance of their union, and will not endorse or support either blindly, especially without concrete policy to help the union.

4. I think they're planning on doing the same thing at the DNC. 


This might be an effort to shift blue-collar Republicans left towards supporting Unions. Whether we like it or not, unions, particularly the Teamsters, do have a sizeable conservative base within them. It's probably at least 50-50, if not slightly leaning towards conservatives at the moment (the Republicans are just good on messaging and Dems aren't following through on labor as much as they could have, See PRO Act failing by 2 Democratic senators). 

Before we condemn him, I want to see what they're doing. I'm hopeful there's a strategy here. Remember he was prepared to beat Mark-Wayne Mullen's ass on the floor of Congress.

Also the balls on this man to go talk about labor issues in a room filled with thousands of anti-union monsters. He is either corrupt (I don't see enough to conclude this), or he genuinely cares so much more about the union than the optics that he'll talk to *anyone* about it. I hope it's the latter, because I respect the hell out of any union member who will shit on corporate greed in the face of both Democrats and Republicans, knowing they gutted unions to begin with.
assistant
Conveniently ignoring the fact that he called Trump and Hawley pro union are we?
user
Yes, you caught me. I am trying to trick you into thinking he isn't a class traitor! I would have gotten away with it too if I weren't watching it on a second monitor, playing video games, and relatively high when I was watching it on the stream. 

Think what you want. I'm choosing to hope we haven't been betrayed and waiting to see what might happen next. Nothing I wrote is incorrect, but you've already made up your mind. I'd prefer not to dismantle labor power from paranoia, but go off. Go tell your local Teamsters to vote to remove him from office for being a class traitor.
assistant