Millionaire Congressman David Trott (MI-11) held a town hall over the weekend and like others across the nation, the venue was packed with unhappy constituents. TheDetroit Free Press sets the scene:
Solicitous staffers had taken every precaution to limit the damage, scheduling the town hall to begin in the first hour past sunrise on a snowy Saturday morning, in a venue they were obliged to vacate in time to make way for the boat show opening 90 minutes later. The weather gods were complicit, whipping up a sudden blizzard that spun cars into ditches and brought traffic on the major arteries leading to the Suburban Collection Showplace to a standstill.
Still they came, arriving by the hundreds before plows had cleared the parking lot. By the time the doors opened at 8 a.m., there were close to a thousand, more than twice as many as the 425 seats set out for the event would accommodate.
At the town hall, Trott was firm in his support for repealing the Affordable Care Act which will uninsure tens of millions of Americans in the first decade. After the event concluded, he was ushered out of the hall to chants of “VOTE HIM OUT!” Unfortunately for him, someone forgot to turn of his lapel microphone and he and his aides were heard planning to portray his constituents as “un-American” and admitting to “bouncing” questions – tossing out question cards they didn’t want to have to answer.
At around the 0:34 second mark in the video below, you can hear Trott’s aide say,“We’re going to take that part where they’re booing funding the military and I’m gonna get somebody to write a story and we’re going to promote the shit out of that. It’s un-American crap.”He’s referring to the fact that the crowd booed him when he called the American military “the weakest it’s ever been.” Later in the video, Trott asks if they “bounced” any questions. His aide confirms they did.
Absolutely busted. It is absolutely incredible that a sitting congressman would go to such efforts to defame his own constituents, let alone try to tag them with the label of being “un-American” because they had the audacity to show up to a public town hall and hold their elected representative accountable for this votes. Votes that harm his district and the people living in it. Trott runs off stage around just before the 6:00 minute mark. Watch and listen: VIDEO ON LINK
We agree with your constituents, Rep. Trotter. SHAME ON YOU!
Rep. David Trott “I’m gonna get somebody to write a story and we’re going to promote the shit out of that.” Well, Fox News to the rescue! In an interview this morning, Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt helpfully asked all the right questions, labeling the constituents as “liberals” and golly gee, what kind of people don’t support the military? (Hint: un-American people, that’s who!) I’m unable to embed the video, but you can view it here. In the meantime, the chryon on the video should tell you all you need to know about how completely biased this made-for-Fox News story really was:
What. The. Fox. Trott. Guess we know who Republicans turn to when they want to manufacture a narrative.
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