President-elect Trump wasted no time in slamming a union leader for speaking the truth. Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999 at the Carrier plant in Indiana, stated that the actual number of jobs that will remain at the Indiana plant is near 800, not the nearly 1,200 jobs that Trump recently promised to save. Trump, seemingly upset over the fact that his false assertion was revealed, lashed out at Jones in a tweet. Read the complete story from the Daily Kos, here.
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