The president is saying that auto plants are being built in states critical to his re-election chances, but that’s false.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/10/trump-keeps-bragging-about-imaginary-auto-plants-swing-states/
Only four new auto plants have been announced since Trump took office, and auto manufacturing was higher under the last three years of Barack Obama’s presidency than the first three of Trump’s. Three of the four states name-checked by Trump do not have new plants. And there’s no evidence that Trump’s threat of tariffs led to more auto investment.
Trump earns Four Pinocchios.
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