Workers were told if they did not show up for the Trump event, they would have to use some of their paid time off or receive no pay at all for the day
At least some of the workers who attended the speech were instructed not to protest the President, who told the crowd of workers at the Royal Dutch Shell plant he would be imploring their union leaders to support his reelection. The instructions to the workers came in a memo, a copy of which was obtained by CNN's Polo Sandoval from a congressional source. That source was given the memo by a person in Beaver County, Pennsylvania -- the site of the plant.
Will the economy be Trump's achilles heel? 05:02The Tuesday Trump speech was an official White House event -- not a speech sponsored by the reelection campaign. Trump told the audience at the plant Tuesday that they should oust their union leaders if they declined to support him. "I'm going to speak to some of your union leaders to say, 'I hope you're going to support Trump.' Okay?" Trump said.
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