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Trump Attacks Carrier Union Leader Who Says Trump “Lied His Ass Off”

HeadlineDec 08, 2016

Donald Trump attacked union leader Chuck Jones on Twitter on Wednesday, after Jones appeared on CNN criticizing Trump for breaking his promise to Carrier workers in Indiana. Last week, Trump appeared at the Carrier air conditioner plant in Indianapolis and boasted that he’d saved 1,100 jobs from being moved to Mexico. But Jones, who represents the workers, says Trump “lied his ass off.” Jones says Trump helped keep only 730 jobs in the U.S., not 1,100. In response to Jones’s criticism, Trump tweeted, “Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!”

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