Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Republican presidential campaign front-runner Donald Trump isn't shy about taking credit for things, even when undeserved.
Business writer Greg Gardner of the Detroit Free Press reports:
When Donald Trump comes to Motown, look out for tales of protecting auto jobs and beware of his past fabrications.
Last fall, the GOP front-runner took credit for strong-arming Ford into building a "massive plant" in Ohio. What Ford did, back in 2014, was announce that production of the Ford F-650 and F-750 heavy duty commercial trucks would move from Mexico to Avon Lake, Ohio, a plant Ford opened back in 1974.
"I should get credit for that," Trump claimed last October. The truth is it was already a done deal.
Politicians have a way of bending facts, Gardner points out:
Mitt Romney, who today called Trump a "phony and a fraud," ran an ad in 2012 that said Fiat Chrysler was going to shift production of the Jeep Cherokee from Toledo to China.
PolitiFact called Romney's claim that President Barack Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" at the cost of American jobs as the 2012 Lie of the Year.
