Hours before former President Donald Trump was set to take the stage at a campaign rally in Uniondale on Long Island on Wednesday, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the nation’s largest healthcare union, held rallies at Brooklyn’s Interfaith Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park. The rallies condemned Trump’s recent racist attacks and hateful rhetoric against Haitians.
During a Sept. 10 presidential debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump claimed, “In Springfield, they are eating the dogs. The people that came in, they are eating the cats. They are eating the pets of the people that live there.”
