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A Teamster posted images of a fund raising letter they received from President Sean O'Brien on r/Union (warning: reddit link).

In the letter, Sean O'Brien claims that Trump is creating a new 'Worker First' republican party, and implores the reader to donate as much as they can to the Teamster 'TEAM Fund', which will be used to:

  1. Support Trump's 'Pro-Worker' initiatives, like 'strategic' tariffs
  2. Financially back incumbent 'pro-worker' republican candidates for the House and Senate
  3. Identify pro-labor legislatures in key states and support their campaigns

Sean then introduces the next part of the letter; a message from Josh Hawley, a Christian Nationalist and Trump loyalist state senator who fist pumped the Jan 6th rioters in support.

In the letter Hawley claims Trump has eliminated the "country club elites and business tycoons" from the republican party, as well as ending the "Woke DEI agenda".

If there was ever any doubt about O'Brien, he's certainly showing his true colors now, bending the knee to the fascists in power and even going so far as to fund raise for them.

The letter itself:

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we’re willing to work with a bipartisan coalition to accomplish something real for the American worker

Laudable.

Republican elected officials and working people can link arms and join in common cause

But hopelessly naive, if it's even genuine at all.

I hope you can make a special gift of $35, $50, $100, or even $250 to TEAM Fund today

Ah, there we go.