Ford Chairman Met With Trump Over ‘Infuriating’ Attacks on Their Mexico Production

One company Donald Trump has gone after on the campaign trail is Ford for, as Trump puts it, shipping jobs to Mexico. Well, the company chairman revealed today he met with The Donald this week about that.

While he was at the Economic Club of Washington D.C. today, USA Today reports, Bill Ford said he had a chat with Trump about his “infuriating” attacks on the company’s production in Mexico.

He said it was a “very good meeting” and Trump was a good listener, just very misguided on this issue:

“I would like to think Ford is everything that should be celebrated about what’s right with the country,” Ford said Wednesday. “We didn’t go bankrupt, we paid back our loans, we did it the old-fashioned way, we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps.”

Trump has claimed that Ford has shipped tons of jobs out of Ohio and into Mexico, but earlier this week Ford insisted it was actually the opposite:

“Nope. In fact, we insourced production of F650 and 750 [trucks and tractors] from Mexico TO Ohio,” Christin Baker, spokesperson for Ford told me when asked about Trump’s allegations.

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