Economics
Trump's Twitter Attack on GM and the UAW Strays From the Facts
An image of a Chevrolet Cruze vehicle is displayed outside the GM Lordstown production plant complex in Lordstown, Ohio.
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President Donald Trump is mixing faulty narrative and falsehoods with some fair criticism to attack General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers union for the closing of an auto factory in Ohio, a state that will play a pivotal role in his re-election bid.
GM’s Chevrolet Cruze plant in Lordstown, Ohio, built its last car on March 6 and has no new product to build. The automaker has been transferring many of the factory’s workers to other plants around the U.S., making its revival unlikely. Here’s what Trump has been saying, and what he’s gotten right and wrong.