Former Trump workers share a stage with Joe Biden — and blast their ex-employer
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and David A. Fahrenthold
Dec. 11, 2019 at 8:47 p.m. EST
LAS VEGAS — For years, Sandra Diaz and Victorina Morales were undocumented and largely invisible employees of Donald Trump, domestics who laid out his golf clothes, served his meals and scrubbed his toilets, even as he took aim at illegal immigrants and Hispanics on the way to becoming president.
On Wednesday, the women held themselves up as symbols of what they called Trump’s hypocritical immigration policies as they received a standing ovation from Local 226, a culinary workers union that hosted three Democratic presidential candidates this week.
A short time after Morales and Diaz denounced their former employer Wednesday, they got a hug from one of Trump’s chief opponents, former vice president Joe Biden, who was making his pitch to the largely Latino gathering of union workers.
“I’m going to tell you who is Mr. Trump,” Diaz told the crowd. “How he’s a big liar. . . . He still lies about immigrants. He says we are bad people. And I will stand here and say he lies, because we are good workers and good people.”
A short time later, Morales showed the crowd a photocopy of a certificate she had received from the White House Communications Agency for her service.
“He talked about immigrants, saying they’re thieves, they’re rapists,” she said through an interpreter. “But I am here showing my face saying we’re not who he says we are. We are hard workers, and here’s proof.”
For the women, it was the first major venture into political advocacy, as they sought to highlight an apparent dissonance between Trump’s message on illegal immigration and the dependence of his company, and his family, on undocumented immigrants. The women who once served Trump’s family are now calling for his ouster.
Diaz, 47, is an immigrant from Costa Rica who spent years as a housekeeper for Trump’s private villa at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., before leaving in 2014. Morales, a 47-year-old from Guatemala, worked with Diaz and then succeeded her as Trump’s housekeeper.
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