Steven Rattner, who once served as the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;car czar,&#8221; slammed President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> for joining the United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-makes-history-striking-auto-workers-picket-line-rcna117348" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the criticism on Tuesday just as Biden arrived in Michigan to stand with protesters who are striking against &#8220;Big Three&#8221; automakers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis in an effort to secure higher wages, improved benefits, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/uaw-strike-ford-gm-stellantis-contract-offers-5dd4dee2056b7efe06d2a55433d8d13a#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20the%20UAW%20has,pay%20raises%2C%20among%20other%20benefits." target="_blank" rel="noopener">and more</a>.
“For him to be going on a picket line is outrageous,” Rattner told the news outlet.
&#8220;There’s no precedent for it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The tradition of the president is to stay neutral in these things. I get the politics. The progressives all said, &#8216;We don’t want a mediator; we want an advocate.&#8217; And he bowed to the progressives, and now he’s going out there to put his thumb on the scale. And it’s wrong.&#8221;
Rattner, a Wall Street financier, led former President Barack Obama’s auto industry task force and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124751573500734529" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oversaw</a> the federal auto industry bailout of 2009.
He wrote a guest essay <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/opinion/uaw-strike-economy-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published last week by The New York Times</a> that expressed support for auto workers getting paid more but warned that the &#8220;increasingly militant U.A.W. is overplaying its hand with an overly lengthy and overly ambitious list of demands.&#8221;
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Rattner also said he was worried about the &#8220;implications&#8221; the UAW strike could have on the economy and Biden.
&#8220;A prolonged strike, which could lead to far more widespread shutdowns of auto facilities, could jeopardize the economic recovery,&#8221; Rattner said. &#8220;Our nearly $800 billion auto industry accounts for 3 percent of economic output, with a particular concentration in the Midwest, where states like Michigan are critical to President Biden’s re-election.&#8221;
Biden, who served as Obama&#8217;s vice president, visited the picket line just one day before former President Donald Trump is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-plans-to-skip-second-gop-debate-to-rally-with-striking-autoworkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected to deliver</a> a speech to striking auto workers in Detroit instead of attending the second GOP primary debate.
&#8220;The President joins the picket line in solidarity with the men and women of the United Auto Workers union as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create,&#8221; said the White House, according to a press pool report.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/workers-walk-out-at-three-major-auto-factories-after-biden-predicted-strike-wouldnt-happen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike begun</a> by the United Auto Workers last week expanded to 38 parts-distribution centers across a dozen states as the union demands higher wages as well as “economic and social justice.”
Around 13,000 auto workers had already <a href="https://apnews.com/article/auto-uaw-workers-strike-gm-ford-stellantis-7ce3ca9d94b911250d07556b7af376c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopped working</a> at Ford, Stellantis and General Motors plants in Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio before additional GM and Stellantis facilities were added to the strike. No further Ford locations were impacted by the expanded strike as the UAW said it had made progress with company executives. 
“We’ve made some real progress at Ford,” UAW President Shawn Fain <a href="https://apnews.com/article/uaw-ford-stellantis-general-motors-strike-labor-4132aa222c9a4456415af480d6fafa98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We still have serious issues to work through, but we do want to recognize that Ford is showing that they are serious about reaching a deal. At GM and Stellantis, it’s a different story.”
Stellantis facilities<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/uaw-announces-new-strike-where-parts-distribution-centers-rcna116885" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> are striking</a> in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Illinois, California, Oregon, Texas, West Virginia, Georgia, Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts. 
GM facilities are striking in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, California, Texas, West Virginia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. 
“Today’s strike escalation by the UAW’s top leadership is unnecessary,” GM said in a statement. “The UAW leadership is manipulating the bargaining process for their own personal agendas.”
Stellantis said that it had offered to pay current full time hourly employees between $80,000-$96,000 within the next five years. 
The UAW is pushing for a 36% pay bump over a four-year period for workers. Ford and GM said they could do 20%, and Stellantis put forth a 17.5% increase over four years, according to the Associated Press. Other demands by the union are a 32-hour work week with pay for 40 hours, pensions for new employees, and inflation-based pay bumps.
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President Joe Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1705325183697932561" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he would go to Michigan on Tuesday to support the workers on strike. 
“Tuesday, I’ll go to Michigan to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create,” he posted to X. “It’s time for a win-win agreement that keeps American auto manufacturing thriving with well-paid UAW jobs.”
Biden will likely not be welcome by all workers, many of whom <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/biden-labor-ally-threatening-energy-agenda-00115415" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blame him</a> for pushing massive subsidies toward electric vehicles and pushing a “transition” away from traditional gas-powered cars. 
Former President Donald Trump is also set to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-plans-to-skip-second-gop-debate-to-rally-with-striking-autoworkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">make an appearance</a> in Michigan, opting to give a speech to the workers as opposed to participating in the Republican presidential debate. 
 “I’m on the side of making our country great,” Trump said when asked during an interview about the strike. “The auto workers are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should endorse Trump.”

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On Friday, three men charged with being part of a plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer were found not guilty after a two-week trial.
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BREAKING The final three defendants in the Whitmer kidnapping case have all just been acquitted on all counts in Antrim County court in Michigan. Eric Molitor, Bill Null and Michael Null were found not guilty by the jury after a 2 week trial. <a href="https://t.co/vrYPc9qusB">pic.twitter.com/vrYPc9qusB</a>
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In early October 2020, the FBI announced they had arrested 13 men suspected of orchestrating a plot to kidnap Whitmer and overthrow the state government. Roughly half of the group belonged to an organization called the Wolverine Watchmen. Six men were charged in federal court; the other seven were charged with state crimes. The six men charged in federal court were Adam Fox, Ty Garbin, Barry Croft Jr., Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta. The seven men charged with state crimes were Pete Musico, Joseph Morrison, Shawn Fix, Eric Molitor, Michael Null, William Null, and Paul Bellar.
Eric Molitor, Bill Null and Michael Null were found not guilty by the jury on Friday.
Barry Croft, Jr. was sentenced to 19 years and seven months in prison; Adam Fox was sentenced to 16 years in prison; Joseph Morrison was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison; Paul Bellar was sentenced to 7 to 20 years; Pete Musico was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months, later reduced to 2 years and 6 months; Ty Garbin was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months, later reduced to 2 years and 6 months; and Kaleb Franks was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Harris and Caserta were found not guilty; no sentencing has been announced yet for Fix and Higgins.
Whitmer later targeted former President Trump, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/520255-michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-responds-to-kidnapping-plot-says-trump/">saying</a>, “Just last week, the president of the United States stood before the American people and refused to condemn white supremacist and hate groups like these two Michigan militia groups. Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry, as a call to action. When our leaders speak, their words matter. They carry weight. When our leaders meet with, encourage or fraternize with domestic terrorists, they legitimize their actions and they are complicit.”
“Our head of state has spent the past 7 months denying science, ignoring his own health experts, stoking distrust, fomenting anger and giving comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division,” Whitmer added.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-union-president-says-auto-workers-feel-abandoned-by-the-democratic-party-as-union-criticizes-bidens-ev-push" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Auto Workers</a> announced a strike against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ford-motor-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford</a>, General Motors, and Stellantis, as the union demands higher wages and “economic and social justice.”
Around 13,000 auto workers <a href="https://apnews.com/article/auto-uaw-workers-strike-gm-ford-stellantis-7ce3ca9d94b911250d07556b7af376c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopped working</a> as picketing began outside a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan; a GM assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri; and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio. The strike comes after weeks of negotiations between the union and leadership at the automakers. 
“We didn’t want to be here. We want a fair agreement. We want fair economic and social justice for our members. That’s what this is all about. And it’s a shame,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/live-blog/uaw-strike-ford-general-motors-stellantis-live-updates-rcna105134" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Shawn Fain, president of the auto workers union. 
The strike is currently only targeted at three factories as the UAW pushes for a 36% pay bump over a four-year period for workers. Ford and GM said they could do 20% and Stellantis put forth a 17.5% increase over four years, according to the Associated Press. 
Other demands by the union are a 32-hour work week with pay for 40 hours, pensions for new employees, and inflation-based pay bumps. 
Prior to the strike, GM outlined that, in addition to the 20% pay increase over four years, the company would add “inflation protection,” increase its contributions to retirement health care savings by 25%, and increase vacation time. GM CEO Mary Barra <a href="https://www.gmnegotiations2023.com/public/us/en/negotiations/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> the offer as a “compelling and unprecedented economic package.” 
President Joe Biden, who <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/05/uaw-strike-likely-detroit-automakers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">predicted</a> that a strike would not take place, will reportedly discuss the standoff sometime on Friday. 
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not worried about a strike until it happens. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to happen,” Biden said on Labor Day. 
Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of Job Creators Network, slammed Biden in a statement after the strike, saying that the president was in part responsible for the strike.
&#8220;President Biden is partly responsible for the economically damaging UAW strike because Bidenflation has caused declining real wages and living standards for ordinary workers, resulting in UAW taking this drastic action to swing the wage pendulum in the other direction. Biden&#8217;s pro-union rhetoric, including calling himself the most pro-union president in history, has also contributed to the UAW overplaying its hand with ridiculous compensation demands that threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers, thousands of small businesses that service the big three automakers, and even the automakers themselves,&#8221; Ortiz said.
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Ford said that a strike “could have wide-ranging consequences for our business and the economy. It also impacts the very 57,000 UAW-Ford workers we are trying to reward with this contract.”
Stellantis, who had about 5,800 employees in Ohio stop work making the Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator, said it was “disappointed” by the strike. 
&#8220;We are extremely disappointed by the UAW leadership’s refusal to engage in a responsible manner to reach a fair agreement in the best interest of our employees, their families and our customers,&#8221; a statement from Stellantis said. &#8220;We immediately put the Company in contingency mode and will take all the appropriate structural decisions to protect our North American operations and the Company,” the company added.

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Auto workers in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> are preparing to go on strike for higher wages at three major U.S. carmakers as the United Auto Workers (UAW) union criticizes President Joe Biden’s handouts for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-auto-strike-looms-biden-admin-announces-15-5-billion-for-electric-vehicle-manufacturers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">electric vehicle industry</a>.
The UAW <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/09/14/live-updates-uaw-strike-looms-hours-before-contracts-expire-with-big-three-automakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> workers at General Motors, Ford, and Stellanits deserve a pay raise of 36%, and unless the union can come to an agreement with the automakers by midnight Thursday, the auto workers will go on strike. Not all of the UAW’s criticisms are directed at Detroit’s three major automakers; the union is also upset with the Biden administration and the Democratic Party for its subsidies to the electric vehicle industry, warning that the rush to push EVs is overlooking the security and protection of the American auto worker.
“UAW members feel abandoned by the Democratic Party,” former UAW President Bob King <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/biden-labor-ally-threatening-energy-agenda-00115415" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> POLITICO in an interview, saying that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has failed to benefit union workers. “I think there’s a segment of the Democratic Party that sees itself as serving corporations rather than the common good. … We’ve had a lot of disappointments.”
POLITICO reported that most of the energy investments made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act are flowing away from Michigan and to more Republican-led <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/13/biden-inflation-reduction-act-climate-states-00110940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>, such as Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina. The UAW is also concerned that it will lose members when motor companies invest even more into EVs as EVs usually have fewer parts than gas-powered cars.
The UAW is withholding an endorsement of Biden as it waits to hear back from the administration. UAW President Shawn Fain demanded the Biden administration give the UAW assurances that union workers will be protected as the federal government pushes for higher EV production. Biden, who <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/08/remarks-by-president-biden-in-honor-of-labor-unions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> himself as the “most pro-union president&#8221; in history, received the endorsement of the UAW in 2020 as the union typically backs any candidate with a “D” next to their name, but the UAW president said Biden has some more to prove before he gets an endorsement for 2024.
“Actions are going to dictate endorsements, so we’ll see how things continue to play out, and we have a lot of issues to resolve,” Fain <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date/2023-09-11/segment/02" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this week. “There’s a lot with the EV transition that has to happen, and there’s hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars that are helping fund this, and workers cannot continue to be left behind in that equation.”
Ever since taking over in the White House in 2021, Biden has strongly pushed for the U.S. to ramp up electric vehicle production in the name of green energy. The White House is <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/17/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-private-and-public-sector-investments-for-affordable-electric-vehicles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investing</a> in the car industry with the hopes of getting EV sales to make up half of all new vehicle sales by 2030, subsidizing American car companies to help the administration reach its goal.
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Earlier this year, Ford <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ford-gets-9-2-billion-loan-from-biden-admin-for-ev-battery-factories-biggest-check-since-2009-bailouts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> the largest government check for an automaker since the 2009 bailouts thanks to a $9.2 billion loan intended to help construct three electric vehicle battery plants in the U.S. The Biden administration and Motor Company continue to push EVs even as Ford <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ford-loses-billions-on-electric-cars-embraces-hybrids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it expects to lose $4.5 billion from its EV division this year.

Former Union President Says Auto Workers ‘Feel Abandoned By The Democratic Party’ As Union Criticizes Biden’s EV Push

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House Republicans are questioning the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ford-motor-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford Motor Company</a> about an electric vehicle battery factory project in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> and its ties to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a>. 
Republicans from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce <a href="https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/09_01_23_E_and_C_Letter_FORD_ae9859a956.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to Ford CEO James Farley on September 1 requesting information on the company’s relationship with Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL). The partnership, made in February, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ford-slammed-for-teaming-up-with-chinese-company-to-build-batteries-becoming-a-national-security-threat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">garnered criticism</a> from some lawmakers who pointed to national security concerns. 
“While Ford has labeled this project a ‘commitment to American manufacturing’ and asserts it will create 2,500 new American jobs, we are concerned that Ford’s partnership with a Chinese company could aid China’s efforts to expand its control over United States electric vehicle supply chains and jeopardize national security by furthering dependence on China,” the letter said. 
The letter referenced a move by Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin to scuttle a similar potential partnership between Ford and CATL in his state before the Michigan partnership was announced.
“While Ford is an iconic American company, it became clear that this proposal would serve as a front for the Chinese Communist party, which could compromise our economic security and Virginians’ personal privacy,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter <a href="https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/ford-plant-halted-by-youngkin-would-have-created-2-500-jobs-in-southside/article_9edc230a-95dc-11ed-bdd8-2301b6df2e06.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Richmond Times-Dispatch</a> at the time. 
In the letter to Farley, Republicans referenced congressional testimony that said CATL could stop working on the project if tensions between the U.S. and China escalated, leaving the vehicle maker in a bind over how to source batteries for its vehicles. The lawmakers also questioned who would be employed at the plant currently under construction in Marshall, Michigan. 
“Additionally, Members learned at this hearing that Chinese companies often supply their own workers to projects in Latin America and Africa, reinforcing fears that CATL will import workers for this facility rather than creating jobs for United States workers,” the letter said. 
The GOP lawmakers requested a copy of the licensing agreement between Ford and CATL, along with communications from Ford discussing federal incentives for the project. 
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“We seek to learn more about whether this partnership, and others like it, will potentially exacerbate our reliance on China. Should China gain control of domestic electric vehicle production, the United States would be exposed to serious national security risks at a time of escalating geopolitical tensions,” the Republicans said. 
Business relations between the U.S. and China have faced increased scrutiny in recent years over intellectual property theft and national security precautions as tensions with China remain high.

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Former Republican congressman Mike Rogers announced his campaign for Michigan&#8217;s open U.S. Senate seat on Wednesday morning, giving national Republicans their top recruit for what could be the most competitive race in the country. 
With his announcement, Rogers became the first high-profile Republican to announce a run to replace the retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). The U.S. Army veteran and former congressman said he is running for Senate to help American families “get back on track” after facing more than two years of President Joe Biden’s economy. 
“America under Biden and his cronies is going in the wrong direction: Open borders, a broken system of justice — one for the D.C. elites and one for the rest of us,” Rogers says in his announcement video. “Biden’s bad policies are making gas and groceries more expensive and home ownership harder.” 
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&mdash; Mike Rogers (@MikeRogersForMI) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1699364477022404754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rogers represented Michigan’s 8th congressional district from 2001 to 2015 and served as the chair of the House Intelligence Committee from 2011 to 2015. He was also a special agent in the FBI where he focused on organized crime. After serving in Congress, Rogers built cyber security companies to help small businesses fight cyber threats from bad actors such as China. 
National Republicans have signaled that Rogers will have support from the party in his primary. Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told The Daily Wire that Rogers is &#8220;the type of candidate who can perform well with suburban Michiganders and be a strong part of the eventual ticket in Michigan.&#8221;
“Mike Rogers has devoted his life to serving the people of Michigan and holding communist China accountable,” Daines said. “I am pleased to see Mike stepping up to run for the U.S. Senate.”
Daines has said the party is changing course in 2024 and will actively take sides in primaries, in hopes of improving candidate quality for general elections. The likely Democrat opponent in Michigan will be Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who has already entered the race and is expected to win the nomination.
Democrats have held onto both Michigan Senate seats since 2001, but the race is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/politics/senate-race-rankings-july-elections/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considered</a> to be one of the party’s many potential Senate losses in 2024. Democrats hold just a two-seat majority in the U.S. Senate, and may have to hold onto the Michigan seat to keep control of the upper chamber. Michigan will also likely be a main battleground in the presidential contest, making having a strong ticket all the more important for both parties. 
Rogers joins three other lesser-known Republicans who have <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/whos-running-us-senate-michigan-peter-meijer-forms-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> their candidacy, including, Michigan State Board of Education member Nikki Snyder, businessman Michael Hoover, and attorney Alexandria Taylor, a former Democrat. Other more high-profile candidates, however, are expected to join the race. 
Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI), who lost his primary election after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, formed an exploratory committee last week. Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who ran for governor last cycle, is also a <a href="https://www.wlns.com/news/former-detroit-police-chief-99-there-for-senate-run/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">likely</a> candidate for the seat. 
Rogers says he would work to get Senate to focus on issues that matter, like China taking advantage of American businesses.
“Politics has gotten so small and so petty. We’re failing to address big problems,” says Rogers. “Families are struggling, but politicians are fighting over banning gas stoves while China is stealing our intellectual property and our jobs, and Biden is letting them do it. We can do better.”

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A ship that sank into the depths of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lake Michigan</a> in 1881 has been discovered by shipwreck hunters, who described the ship as being like “a time capsule” into the past because of how well it has survived over the years. 
The Trinidad, a schooner that transported grain between Wisconsin, Illinois, and New York, was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-shipwreck-trinidad-discovered-lake-michigan-687b68a5a1572dcb9089d8cf2b3d438b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> in July by Brendon Baillod and Robert Jaeck. The remains of the ship were found roughly 10 miles off the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> coastline two years after the two maritime historians began their mission. 
“We were stunned to see that not only was the deckhouse still on her, but it still had all the cabinets with all the dishes stacked in them and all the crew’s effects,” Baillod <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/us/lake-michigan-trinidad-shipwreck.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Times. “It’s really like a ship in a bottle. It’s a time capsule.”
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Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew&#39;s long-ago possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin&#39;s coastline. <a href="https://t.co/XSTPmIYqId">https://t.co/XSTPmIYqId</a>
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There were eight men aboard the ship who escaped in a lifeboat and made it to Algoma, Wisconsin, in May 1881. The ship&#8217;s dog went down with the wreck. 
&#8220;The captain and the crew immediately escaped in the ship’s yawl and after battling waves, the cold crew made it in to Algoma (then Ahnapee). The only loss aboard the TRINIDAD was the ship’s mascot, a large Newfoundland dog who was asleep next to the stove when the ship began to sink,&#8221; the Wisconsin Historical Society <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wisconsinhistoricalsociety/posts/pfbid033JSvKSQN4TfYVQCTSvpZiTxJpr7BajL7Vhw5kDy6EbdMnB5qgPXV3hsiMGuexWaVl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Baillod and Jaeck used the account written by John Higgins, the ship’s captain, to help them locate areas to search for the wreck. 
“The wreck is among the best-preserved shipwrecks in Wisconsin waters with her deck-house still intact, containing the crew’s possessions and her anchors and deck gear still present,” a press release on the ship’s finding said. 
The Wisconsin Historical Society helped to charter an underwater craft to survey the wreckage of the Trinidad and confirm its location. 
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The ship was originally constructed in 1867 and used to facilitate grain trade between the upper Midwest, Pennsylvania, and New York. The 140-foot long schooner went down with a load of coal after it sprung a leak going through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in Door County Wisconsin, according to the Associated Press. The ship was reportedly not well kept, which contributed to its demise. 
“If you lived in Philadelphia, Boston or New York in the 1860s and ’70s and you’re eating a sandwich, the bread in that sandwich was almost certainly grown in Wisconsin and brought on a schooner,” Baillod told the Times. 
Baillod said that he hopes that the wrecked ship could be made visible to the public. 
“These are resources that are held in public stewardship, owned by the public,” he said. “They should be visible by the public.”
A 3D model of the ship, <a href="https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/discovery-of-the-historic-great-lakes-schooner-trinidad?fbclid=IwAR3PqKSRq03g7cliA1vLl-rpPZDQK7d3MJAw82Mw5ngCLaoZUXeqcfYjRbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> by Ship Wreck World can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xESmKJQ6g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. 
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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-to-prosecute-democrats-as-president-theyre-doing-it-to-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> advised <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tudor-dixon-wins-michigan-republican-gubernatorial-nomination-will-face-gretchen-whitmer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tudor Dixon,</a> the Republican nominee for Governor of Michigan in the 2022 election, to dial it back on abortion during her campaign, Dixon revealed on her podcast that aired Tuesday. 
Dixon, who ran unsuccessfully against Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, had Trump on “<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tudor-dixon-podcast-an-exclusive-interview/id1678556326?i=1000626177277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tudor Dixon Podcast</a>” to discuss the 2024 race and how she came up short in 2022. Dixon, who is pro-life, took heat from the Left during her campaign for saying she did not believe in any exceptions for abortion. Dixon noted that Trump told her to be careful on the abortion issue as it gave Democrats momentum. 
“You came to me and you said, ‘You got to talk differently about abortion.’ And we could not pivot, we could not pivot in time,” Dixon told Trump during the interview. She added that Trump was “absolutely right” to give her the advice. 
“I hope that you are able to navigate that issue in ’24 and that we can win those women back because they are already putting out attack ads, and it is not a fair issue for them to attack on,” Dixon said. 
Trump told Dixon that he didn&#8217;t receive the same backlash that she did for his stance on abortion because he was careful with how he addressed the issue during his campaigns. “There’s a way of talking about it,” he said, adding that Democrats “are the radicals” on the issue. 
“Exceptions are very important. I think you need the exceptions. You and I talked about that,” Trump added.
Abortion played a pivotal role in the Democrats’ domination in Michigan elections in 2022 just months after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. The issue was also directly on the ballot with Michigan voters choosing to make abortion a constitutional right. Whitmer won re-election with nearly 55% of the vote while Democrats also won the election for attorney general, gained control of the state legislature, and took multiple key U.S. House races.  
In a Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6335585300112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> last week, Dixon said the Left and the media jumped on her abortion stance early, which “absolutely” hurt her in the election. 
“No one really understood how important abortion would be in 2022 because no one had run in a post-Roe world,” Dixon said. “So we suddenly got viciously attacked by the Democrats, and it is a winning message for them.” 
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Dixon praised Nikki Haley for her answer on abortion during the first GOP presidential debate, arguing that Republicans need to take a state-by-state approach to the issue.  
Trump, currently in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/latest-presidential-polls-trailing-candidates-get-slight-post-debate-boost-trump-still-dominates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">command of the polls</a> for the GOP primary, has not said if he supports the 15-week federal ban on abortion that some Republican candidates have advocated for. The former president <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-abortion-evangelicals-supreme-court-3bf88968fcd6d7170abaa31ca3084fa8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the U.S. government has “a vital role” in opposing abortion and touted his crucial Supreme Court appointments, which ultimately led to the overturning of Roe.
“One of the reasons they wanted Roe v. Wade terminated,” he said, “is to bring it back into the states where a lot of people feel strongly the greatest progress for pro-life is now being made,” Trump said in June. “There of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life.”

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A federal district court sided with a Michigan farmer on Monday, ruling that he is free to participate in a city-run farmer&#8217;s market after he was booted over his Catholic views on marriage.
Steve Tennes, who owns Country Mill Farms, was banned in 2017 from the East Lansing farmer’s market by city officials after he posted on Facebook that he follows the Catholic Church&#8217;s teachings on marriage, which includes opposing same-sex weddings at his family&#8217;s orchard.
East Lansing officials reacted by using a &#8220;discretionary system of individual assessments&#8221; to ban Tennes and his farm from participating in the seasonal market, despite Tennes never receiving any complaints from customers, his legal team said.
Tennes and his farm sued the city of East Lansing in 2017.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/mi-farmer-free-continue-selling-apples-east-lansing-farmers-market?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that the city&#8217;s ban on Tennes &#8220;constituted a burden on plaintiffs&#8217; religious beliefs.&#8221;
Tennes and his farm “were forced to choose between following their religious beliefs and a government benefit for which they were otherwise qualified,” violating his right to exercise his religion freely, Maloney <a href="https://adflegal.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/Country-Mill-Farms-v-East-Lansing-2023-08-21-Ruling.pdf?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a>.
&#8220;The reason is simple: denying a person an equal share of the rights, benefits, and privileges enjoyed by other citizens because of her faith discourages religious activity,&#8221; the court said, quoting the 6th Circuit appeals court.
Tennes&#8217; farm is also 22 miles away from East Lansing, which his legal team noted is outside of the city&#8217;s jurisdiction.
In 2017 when Tennes first sued the city, the same judge issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the city to allow him to participate in the farmer&#8217;s market while his litigation proceeded.
He has not had any issues with his farm&#8217;s participation in the farmer&#8217;s market since then, his legal team said.
&#8220;He serves and welcomes everyone to his stand. No one is ever turned away,&#8221; attorney John Bursch <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/fruit-grower-who-opposes-same-sex-marriage-wins-ruling-over-access-to-public-market-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday.
Tennes was represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative legal group.
“Tennes and Country Mill Farms are grateful for the court’s decision protecting religious liberty,” <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/mi-farmer-free-continue-selling-apples-east-lansing-farmers-market?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> ADF Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, who argued before the court for Tennes.
“At the same time, they are eager to mend fences with current city officials and get back to doing what Country Mill does best—as expressed in its mission statement: ‘glorifying God by facilitating family fun on the farm and feeding families,’” Anderson said.
Several high-profile cases dealing with business owners who opposed same-sex marriage on religious grounds have wound up at the Supreme Court in recent years.
In June, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado law that would have punished a Christian graphic designer who declined to design a website for a same-sex wedding that violated her religious beliefs.
That case echoed another Supreme Court case that also came from Colorado.
In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. In that case, the court reversed the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s decision against Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, saying the state had failed to be neutral on religion.

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Federal Court Sides With Catholic Farmer Booted From Farmer’s Market Over Traditional Marriage Views

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Two pilots ejected from a MiG-23 jet during an air show in Michigan on Sunday, shortly before an explosion occurred in mid-air that sent the aircraft crashing into several unoccupied parked vehicles in a nearby apartment complex.
Wayne County Airport Authority told local media the pilots crashed a MiG-23 demonstration plane into the parking lot at the Waverly on the Lake Apartments in the city of Belleville around 4:00 p.m. while performing at the Yankee Air Museum&#8217;s Thunder Over Michigan air show.
&#8220;The pilot and backseater successfully ejected from the aircraft before the crash,&#8221; Wayne County Airport Authority <a href="https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/jet-crashes-during-thunder-over-michigan-air-show-at-willow-run-airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox 2 Detroit. &#8220;While it did not appear they sustained any significant injuries, first responders transported the pair to a nearby hospital as a precaution.&#8221;
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Authorities reported the aircraft struck unoccupied vehicles in the apartment complex&#8217;s parking lot, and no one at the apartment complex nor the air show sustained any significant injuries.
Emergency crews rescued the pilots from Belleville Lake and transported them to a nearby hospital, according to <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/08/13/plane-crashes-during-airshow-finale-at-willow-run/70563452007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Detroit News.</a>
Kevin McNamara, Van Buren Township supervisor, <a href="https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/mig-23-jet-crashes-at-air-show-outside-of-detroit/512-f405d122-ed42-4730-b1b0-841b42bba8c1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> WTOL11 one pilot ejected into the lake while the other landed in a tree, hurting the two &#8220;pretty bad,&#8221; but both &#8220;will be okay.&#8221;
McNamara said the jet slid about 100 yards near an apartment building after it initially crashed on an abandoned golf course.
&#8220;We&#8217;re a subdivision community,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It landed next to a lake. There are not very many empty properties next to lakes. This happens to be one of the rare properties there are. It&#8217;s a miracle.&#8221;
Although the cause remains unknown, the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have reportedly stated both agencies would investigate and provide updates when available.
Thunder Over Michigan started roughly an hour before the incident occurred. Around 4:30 p.m., officials directed attendants to leave the airfield in a post on the event&#8217;s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThunderOverMichigan/posts/pfbid0kRhPDUNoTKvTz8kDgZacvKXFWuS393yzZ9svSFGFdNjiXU7Q8drLX5RD8ZZdvzHYl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook page</a>.
&#8220;Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a situation that requires us to stop the show,&#8221; the post reads. &#8220;Please make your way into your vehicles and calmly make your way out of the airfield.&#8221;
Before it began, president and CEO of the Yankee Air Museum, Kevin Walsh, reportedly said the event showcases 55 modern and vintage military planes from around the world.
Walsh, who has been coordinating the event for the last 25 years, said he hopes the show inspires people.
&#8220;Everyone that flies one of these planes went to an airshow as a kid, and it&#8217;s sensational,&#8221; he said. &#8220;How they feel, how they fly, how they smell and how they sound, it&#8217;s all about the experience.&#8221;
Mark McCulloch, 49, from Saline, told local media he witnessed the jet malfunctioning after another airshow attendant pointed toward the plane and said, &#8220;Oh my God.&#8221;
&#8220;I had my Nikon D-800 with a 600 mm lens — that&#8217;s what I saw,&#8221; McCulloch said. &#8220;I hope no one got hurt at the crash site. There was no loud noises or indication that I witnessed. Two engines blew out, you could see that, but I couldn&#8217;t hear it because the guy on the PA was talking next to us.&#8221;

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All 16 Republican defendants named in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> &#8220;false elector prosecution&#8221; pleaded not guilty on Thursday to several felony charges over their alleged role in a scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, the state attorney general&#8217;s office announced.
Nine of the defendants were arraigned on state charges during a virtual court hearing in Lansing, while the other seven pleaded not guilty in recent weeks, according to reports.
&#8220;Each was given a personal recognizance bond which stipulates defendants must not travel out of state without permission of the Court, must not possess or purchase firearms, ammunition, or dangerous weapons, must not commit any illegal acts, and must not miss any court dates at the risk of jeopardizing their bond,&#8221; Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel&#8217;s office said in a <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/ag/news/press-releases/2023/08/10/all-16-arraignments-held-in-false-elector-prosecution-future-court-dates-set" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Nessel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/16-pro-trump-false-electors-charged-with-felonies-in-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> felony charges against the defendants in July for allegedly signing their names to multiple official documents in the basement of the Michigan GOP headquarters on December 14, 2020, that claimed that Donald Trump won Michigan&#8217;s Presidential election in 2020.
The attorney general said the defendants then transmitted the documents to the U.S Senate and National Archives in an alleged coordinated effort to award Michigan&#8217;s electoral votes &#8220;to the candidate of their choosing, in place of the candidates actually elected by the people of Michigan.&#8221;
&#8220;The false electors&#8217; actions undermined the public&#8217;s faith in the integrity of our elections and, we believe, also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan,&#8221; Nessel said in a news release last month.
&#8220;My department has prosecuted numerous cases of election law violations throughout my tenure, and it would be malfeasance of the greatest magnitude if my department failed to act here in the face of overwhelming evidence of an organized effort to circumvent the lawfully cast ballots of millions of Michigan voters in a presidential election,&#8221; she added.
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Nessel charged each defendant with eight criminal counts, including conspiracy to commit forgery, conspiracy to commit uttering and publishing, and election law forgery.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/politics/michigan-fake-elector-arraignments/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the defendants include Republican National Committee&#8217;s Kathy Berden, current Michigan GOP vice chair Marian Sheridan, and former Michigan GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock.
Other defendants include Mayor Kent Vanderwood of the City of Wyoming, Michigan, Shelby Township clerk Stanley Grot, Grand Blanc school board member Amy Facchinello, and local GOP officials Rose Rook and Mari-Ann Henry. Also named in the case are pro-Trump lawsuit plaintiffs John Haggard and Timothy King; former GOP candidates Clifford Frost and Michele Lundgren; and Hank Choate, James Renner, Mayra Rodriguez, and Ken Thompson.
Haggard&#8217;s attorney Kurt Krause reportedly said the probability of conviction for his client was low because of &#8220;the dubiousness of the factual basis asserted by the government.&#8221;
&#8220;He is eager and looks forward to fighting these charges,&#8221; Krause said, according to <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/10/9-michigan-false-electors-arraigned-not-guilty-pleas-entered/70565472007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Detroit News</a>.
All defendants are set to appear in court for a probable cause conference on August 18.
The case was named in special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s recent indictment against former President Donald Trump, who alleged that Trump&#8217;s team wanted to “subvert the legitimate election results and change electoral votes” with the so-called scheme on January 6, 2021.

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