Trump roasted on CNN for broken promise to save Ohio factory: 'It shut down three months later!'

Former President Donald Trump was soundly blasted on CNN Tuesday morning over his failed promise to save a factory in a struggling Ohio town in 2017, which shortly thereafter closed, leaving 4,500 people without a job.

This came as part of a broader discussion about workers as the United Auto Workers strike continues to drag on. President Joe Biden is set to come to the picket line to stand in solidarity with the workers, while Trump — who has repeatedly denigrated the union's demands and claimed they'll all be put out of work by electric cars — is scheduled to give an address to a nonunion auto parts manufacturer in Macomb County, Michigan.

Maura Gillespie, former aide to retired Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), weighed in about the current state of the auto industry.

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"We still need gas cars, right?" said Gillespie. "We don't have the infrastructure right now to even have — if everyone were to get an EV, we don't have the infrastructure to do it. We don't have enough generating stations in this country to sustain that. So I think that's also an issue where — he could talk about that. We need more generating stations. I know people get all nervous about nuclear, but we need more nuclear generating stations in the country to facilitate the energy needed for EVs."

"What these workers need is not false promises," said CNN political commentator Natasha Alford. "Look at Lordstown, Ohio, where Donald Trump said, you know, don't sell your houses, right? I will protect your jobs. And what happened was the factory didn't come back. So again, a lot of bluster. But if you don't have the policy to back it up, what's the difference for the people on the ground?"

"Which is the most amazing thing — no one remembers that," remarked anchor Phil Mattingly. "He was promising people to their faces that he was going to save everything in Lordstown, and it shut down three months later."

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