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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 03:07 PM Oct 2016

Trump ditched US workers and secretly purchased steel and aluminum for last two projects from China

Plenty of blue-collar workers believe that, as president, Donald Trump would be ready to fight off U.S. trade adversaries and reinvigorate the country’s manufacturing industries through his commitment to the Rust Belt. What they likely don’t know is that Trump has been stiffing American steel workers on his own construction projects for years, choosing to deprive untold millions of dollars from four key electoral swing states and instead directing it to China—the country whose trade practices have helped decimate the once-powerful industrial center of the United States.

A Newsweek investigation has found that in at least two of Trump’s last three construction projects, Trump opted to purchase his steel and aluminum from Chinese manufacturers rather than United States corporations based in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/revealed-trump-ditched-us-workers-and-secretly-purchased-steel-and-aluminum-for-last-two-projects-from-china/

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Trump ditched US workers and secretly purchased steel and aluminum for last two projects from China (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2016 OP
Ouch Roy Rolling Oct 2016 #1
Should leave one in Ohio too! Mamajami Oct 2016 #2
Trump has never given Americans a job making anything of his before why should they believe him now? TeamPooka Oct 2016 #3
In a sane world, that'd be the end of the election right here. Hong Kong Cavalier Oct 2016 #4

Hong Kong Cavalier

(4,572 posts)
4. In a sane world, that'd be the end of the election right here.
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 05:41 PM
Oct 2016

He'd lose a lot of those swing states.

If we were in a sane world.

They'll just nod sycophantically and say "He good businessman! You commie nazi Democrat!"

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