$977K 'PRO BONO' LAWYER: Weingarten's $1.4M Book SCANDAL
Plus: a DOJ federal probe into Washington's prison policy, Xi hosts Putin days after Trump, China detains executives to kill a $2 billion Meta deal, and Trump backs Paxton in the Texas Senate runoff — all in today's episode.
The Freedom Foundation just opened the books on America's most powerful teachers union, and the numbers are devastating. A report first obtained by the New York Post alleges $1.4 million in AFT resources spent on a single anti-Trump book by union president Randi Weingarten. A lawyer billed at $977,000 for work the union called pro bono. A ghostwriter paid $400,000…
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