A former Steelworkers union leader has blasted Donald Trump as a “con man,” an “idiot” and a “liar” as Indianapolis air-conditioning and furnace company Carrier Corp. laid off 215 more workers Thursday. But Donald Trump is a liar and an idiot,” Chuck Jones, former president of United Steelworkers 1999, said at an Indianapolis town hall meeting on Wednesday that was streamed live on Facebook. I’m going to bring back my daughter’s jobs,’” added Jones, referring to overseas manufacturing for Trump and Ivanka Trump products. Trump attacked Jones in a Tweet just over a year ago when Jones expressed skepticism about the Carrier deal. In fact, Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies, will keep only 730 production jobs and 70 salaried workers at the Indianapolis plant.

Source: Huffington Post January 12, 2018 04:41 UTC