Trump receives brutal CNN fact check over failed promises to auto workers
Former President Donald Trump received a brutal fact check from CNN anchors Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly over his years of broken promises to autoworkers, as he prepares to hold a rally at a nonunion plant in Michigan — just a day after President Joe Biden joined the United Auto Workers picket line to stand with striking workers.
"Former President Trump headed to Michigan later today to speak with an audience, around 500 former or current union members, at a non-union plant out of Detroit," said Mattingly. "Something UAW president Shawn Fain finds 'pathetic.'"
"I find it a pathetic irony that the former president is going to hold a rally for union members at a non-union business," said Fain in a clip from a CNN interview on Tuesday. "You know, all you have to do is look at his track record."
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"To that point, Trump made a lot of promises to autoworkers in his first campaign," said Mattingly. "In 2016 he said this in Warren, Michigan."
"If I'm elected, you won't lose one plant," said Trump. "You will have plants coming into this country. You are going to have jobs again. You won't lose one plant, I promise you that."
"That's the promise," said Mattingly. "In 2018, GM ended facilities in Michigan."
"In 2017, listen to what Trump said," continued Harlow.
"And I was — I was looking at some of those big once incredible job-producing factories, and my wife, Melania said, what happened?" said Trump. "I said, those jobs have left Ohio. They've all come back."
"They didn't," said Harlow. "Two years later, that Lordstown auto plant shut down. It was one of the largest employers for workers in that entire area. Autoworkers union president Shawn Fain pointed out, during a short strike against GM in 2019, Trump and Republicans largely stayed on the sidelines. All of that will likely come up at the debate tonight that Trump is skipping, a chance for the other Republican candidates to try to make their case to voters."
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