CLAIM: Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz claimed that former President Ronald Reagan was the “final union member” to look on a “nationwide ticket.”
VERDICT: False. Former President Donald Trump was a member of the Display screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union.
Throughout a marketing campaign rally in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Walz spoke about how “the factor that constructed the center class” had been the power to permit folks to “collectively discount and type a union” with their neighbors. Walz added that he had been a union member of Minnesota’s instructor’s union.
“I’ve been instructed….I’ve been instructed that I’m…..For many years, a card-carrying union member of our state’s instructor union, which I used to be,” Walz instructed the group. “The final union member on a nationwide ticket — Ronald Reagan. I promise you, I cannot lose my means. I cannot lose my means.”
Walz has beforehand made an identical declare. In August, Walz claimed he was “the primary union member” to look on a presidential ticket since Reagan.
“I occur to be the primary union member on a presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan,” Walz stated on the time. “However, relaxation assured, I gained’t lose my means.”
This declare was fact-checked by ABC Information, which discovered that Trump had been a member of SAG-AFTRA till he resigned from the union.
Whereas Reagan served because the president of SAG-AFTRA for “seven phrases,” Trump was a member of the SAG-AFTRA union for greater than 30 years earlier than he resigned in February 2021.
Trump’s resignation from the union got here after SAG-AFTRA stated it discovered “possible trigger” that Trump had “violated the union’s Structure,” and threatened to expel Trump from the union within the aftermath of the riot on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.