Donald Trump on Sunday admitted that he refused to pay his workers overtime, leading to a massive pushback.
Trump, who made a similar comment recently about how he "hated" paying overtime to his employees, went even further over the weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania. At that same rally, the for...
Again, let me preface this by saying that I do not like Trump and think that he is terrible for the country. I’m just saying that he says enough awful shit that we don’t need to twist the truth or lie.
Okay, two things here. First, the statement that Trump “cut overtime for millions of Americans as President” has been rated as “Mostly False” by PolitiFact.
Second, that’s not even what this article is about. This is about him saying the following:
So, what does he say there? He hated paying overtime so he would bring in new people to take over the work. He didn’t stiff them. He sent them home after working a full shift and brought in new people to take over.
Now, he may have (probably did) stiff workers in other ways. This is not evidence of that.
He had an immense reputation for this for his whole career as a “businessman”. [1](https://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/) [2](https://aflcio.org/2016/7/12/when-donald-trump-had-choice-he-chose-nonunion-labor-his-construction-projects-ibew)
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