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AFT’s Weingarten Responds to Desperate Trump Election Lies
Press Release
AFT's Weingarten Responds to Desperate Trump Election Lies
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Thursday, July 16, 2026
WASHINGTON-AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after President Donald Trump delivered a farcical prime-time address to the nation:
"Donald Trump is desperate and afraid. Instead of tackling the cost-of-living crisis, he's dredging up sad, 6-year-old conspiracy theories to sow doubt in democracy and seize control over the midterm elections.
"He doesn't want his disastrous record to be subjected to the will of the people, so he manufactures crises and peddles conspiracies to divert the public's attention and abuse his dwindling power.
"Trump lost the 2020 election. Tonight's slew of recycled, embarrassing lies, rejected by 60 courts, election officials and many of his own supporters, show he's permanently lost credibility with the American people."
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The AFT represents 1.8 million pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel; higher education faculty and professional staff; federal, state and local government employees; nurses and healthcare workers; and early childhood educators.
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