Trump makes up claims about new auto plants in Ohio, elsewhere [View all]

No new auto plant has opened in Ohio during Donald Trump’s presidency, although electric trucks are scheduled to roll off the line soon at GM’s former Lordstown plant.

Fact-checkers quickly tore holes in President Donald Trump’s assertions last week that new auto plants are being built in Ohio and other states “at a level that we’ve never seen before.”

“You better vote for me, I got you so many damn car plants,” Trump said Thursday in Michigan.

No new auto plant has opened in Ohio during Trump’s presidency, although electric trucks are scheduled to roll off the line soon at GM’s former Lordstown plant near Youngstown.

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