Busted: Republican called out by powerful union after false claim of invitation snub

Pro-Trump Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers claimed that one of the most important labor unions in the state snubbed him for one of their key events, rather than the other way around — but the union had the receipts proving otherwise.

On Wednesday morning, Detroit News Washington bureau chief Melissa Nann Burke reported, the United Auto Workers "save[d] a seat on stage at this Michigan US Senate forum in DC for Mike Rogers 'in case he shows up.' Rogers told me this week he's not attending." Specifically...