Thread: BUSTED: @GM Sells Mexico-Made Cars To Ohio @GM Factory Workers, LIED About It To Trum

BUSTED: @GM Sells Mexico-Made Cars To Ohio @GM Factory Workers, LIED About It To Trump & Public With MSM Cover

JAN 8, 2017 by DUANE NORMAN 21
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PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD J. TRUMP. RIGHT: A GM-OWNED CHEVROLET CRUZE IN A MEXICAN FACTORY. DETAILS FROM ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL VADON AND BY BAGLIETO, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

Duane Norman is a Zero Hedge contributor who normally writes at Free Market Shooter.

On January 3, President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted about General Motors, stating that GM was building its Chevrolet Cruze in Mexico, importing them to the United States tax-free, and selling them through U.S. car dealers:

GM quickly denied Trump’s tweet, and in a press release that same day, the company claimed that all Cruze sedans sold in the US are “built in GM’s assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio”, and that GM builds the Cruze hatchback for global markets in Mexico, with only a small percentage being sold in the US:



…and the MSM and other liberal outlets were quick to pounce on GM’s statement, using it to slander the President-elect. U.S. News, ABC News, and many others, including The Wall Street Journal, all published articles containing the information in GM’s press release. U.S. News went out of its way to post a clickbait headline which alluded to “the truth” about Trump’s tweet, with the following quotation:

“General Motors Company (ticker: GM) is pushing back after President-elect Donald Trump early-morning Twitter attack, in which the incoming president took aim at GM for making its Chevrolet Cruze in Mexico and shipping them tax-free to the U.S. for sale.

That’s not the full story, says GM.

“General Motors manufacturers the Chevrolet Cruze sedan in Lordstown, Ohio,” a General Motos spokesman told U.S. News & World Report in a statement Tuesday. “All Chevrolet Cruze sedans sold in the U.S. are built in GM’s assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio.”

GM says it also builds the Cruze hatchback in Mexico to sell in global markets, and only a “small number” of those are sold in the U.S. It did not clarify the number. The hatchback model went on sale in the U.S. for the first time this fall.”

Of course,all the liberal think-tanks like Politifact, ThinkProgress, GOOD, Addicting Info, Salon (to whom I refuse to link), and countless others got in on the act. Addicting Info in particular went out of its way to imply that Trump was wrong, and dangerously so:

“But as a result of Trump’s accusations and threats General Motors’ stock price tumbled briefly and then recovered. Keep in mind that General Motors was nearly wiped out of existence at the beginning of the Great Recession, which would have cost thousands of Americans their jobs. Trump’s attack on General Motors could have harmed the company in a way that would have harmed American workers he the stock price fallen more than it did.

Trump just flat-out lied to the American people and got busted for it by General Motors. Next time Trump decides to attack an American company he should do his homework first and then look in the mirror because his company has most of their products manufactured in China and Mexico, which make Trump the biggest hypocrite in America.”

It appears that in the lying mainstream media’s rush to fact-check Trump and call him hypocritical, no media outlet bothered to fact-check GM as well. So, who did the fact-checking work that the MSM didn’t bother doing?

Auto enthusiast and Twitter user E.W. Niedermeyer, that’s who. Niedermeyer brought the GM and Trump saga up on Thursday, January 5th in a series of tweets that began innocently enough:

E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

Remember when Donald Trump tweeted this about General Motors? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816260343391514624 …
12:16 PM - 5 Jan 2017

E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

Here's the statement GM gave in response. Pretty damn unequivocal, right? http://media.gm.com/Pages/news/us/en/2017/jan/0103-cruze.html … pic.twitter.com/dTKp6TQZdS

E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

If I've learned anything in my nearly 10 years of covering the car business it's that you always fact check anything GM says.
12:18 PM - 5 Jan 2017

Niedermeyer quickly got to the nitty-gritty of his argument, noting the unique “VIN sequence” code used to identify GM cars made in Mexico (3G1):
Finally, Niedermeyer provided evidence on where the autos sold in the U.S. were built:

E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

Can you guess where this is going yet? Gather round @Automotive_News @UAW @DetroitBureau @detroitnews@freepautos @ReutersAuto @business



E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

Here is GM's 2017 Model Year VIN decoder. As you can see, Hecho En Mexico VINs start with 3G1 https://service.gm.com/dealerworld/vincards/pdf/2017%20Vincard%20Car%2012-20-16%20r1.12.pdf … pic.twitter.com/hRrLThLZOU
12:20 PM - 5 Jan 2017





E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

Here is GM's 2017 Model Year VIN decoder. As you can see, Hecho En Mexico VINs start with 3G1 https://service.gm.com/dealerworld/vincards/pdf/2017%20Vincard%20Car%2012-20-16%20r1.12.pdf …pic.twitter.com/hRrLThLZOU




E.W. Niedermeyer @TweetermeyerSo all you have to do to prove that GM lied to the President Elect is to find Chevrolet Cruze Sedans for sale in the US with 3G1 VINs...
12:21 PM - 5 Jan 2017


Finally, Niedermeyer provided evidence on where the autos sold in the U.S. were built:

E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

Here are 5:http://www.lonestarchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-0561896c0a0e0a171812578a6befc9b9.htm …http://www.lonestarchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-e7907a870a0e0adf748d53f49846604a.htm …http://www.lonestarchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-e7907aeb0a0e0adf748d53f4d41d8004.htm …http://www.lonestarchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-d442a40e0a0e0ae717548d6384413ad6.htm …http://www.lonestarchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-bfa70dd40a0e0a1701d2b54a75129165.htm …

E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

Those are just @ Lone Star Chevy. There are 3 more at that locationhttp://www.lonestarchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-bfa70df40a0e0a1701d2b54a2e09a297.htm …http://www.lonestarchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-b55a96d40a0e0ae717548d6369b9d556.htm …http://www.lonestarchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-9673f6490a0e0ae854d002e570c38b52.htm …
12:24 PM - 5 Jan 2017

E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

Here are some I found in my area, at Carr Chevy in Beaverton, ORhttp://www.carrchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze--2286f20f0a0e0ae8779b2f8bb7b5af6d.htm …http://www.carrchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze--ff3dbc820a0e0a171812578a4ad6b791.htm …http://www.carrchevrolet.com/new/Chevrolet/2017-Chevrolet-Cruze--50cb74130a0e0a6b652f5af00336e8f2.htm …


E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

But wait, the real gut punch is still coming.

No, really, this actually gets worse...
12:26 PM - 5 Jan 2017

E.W. Niedermeyer@Tweetermeyer

GM is selling Hecho En Mexico Chevrolet Cruze Sedans at dealerships in the Lordstown, OH area... to the workers who are supposed to make 'em



E.W. Niedermeyer @Tweetermeyer

At Spitzer Chevrolet Lordstown:http://www.spitzerlordstown.com/VehicleDetails/new-2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-Sedan_LS_%28Automatic%29-North_Jackson-OH/2895953863 …http://www.spitzerlordstown.com/VehicleDetails/new-2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-Sedan_LT_%28Automatic%29-North_Jackson-OH/2898342793 …http://www.spitzerlordstown.com/VehicleDetails/new-2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-Sedan_LT_%28Automatic%29-North_Jackson-OH/2883154033 …http://www.spitzerlordstown.com/VehicleDetails/new-2017-Chevrolet-Cruze-Sedan_LT_%28Automatic%29-North_Jackson-OH/2895460493 …


Think about that for a second – GM is selling Cruze sedans manufactured in Mexico, in the same Ohio town that builds Cruze sedans. And at the same time, GM is brazen enough to say it doesn’t sell Cruze sedans built in Mexico in the US, saying all Cruze sedans in US dealerships are built in its Lordstown, Ohio plant. And GM did so in the face of the President-elect of the United States accusing the company of building Cruze sedans in Mexico, shipping them to America tax-free, and selling them in your local dealerships.

Niedermeyer’s entire tweet thread can be viewed here. Niedermeyer provides ample evidence demonstrating the truth about where GM Cruze sedans sold in the US are built. Feel free to check the VIN numbers on your local Chevy dealer’s Cruze inventory, and see where they were built for yourself.

GM was caught red-handed lying to the public and to Trump, and we might never have known if it weren’t for everyday people like Niedermeyer. It is crazy enough to wrap your head around; a regular guy did the fact checking the mainstream media never bothered to do. The MSM took GM’s word as gospel in their rush to criticize Trump, without bothering to check if GM was just lying to save its own skin.

If you think GM is somehow more credible than Trump, recall that this isn’t exactly the first time the auto maker has been caught lying. In fact, they have been caught lying again, and again, and again. Sometimes their lies result in people losing their lives. They have been caught lying so many times, it would be impossible to list them all here. But the lying mainstream media gleefully took GM at their word, using any chance it could get to refer to the President-elect as a dangerous, reckless liar, when a simple fact-check has shown GM was lying, not Trump.

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Allow this revelation to resonate in your head for a second, and keep it in the back of your mind next time the mainstream media tells you Trump is a dangerous liar and/or hypocrite in his latest tweet. Because you just might be the fact-checker that gets the last laugh, right alongside Trump himself.

Finally: it should go without saying, but a special thanks goes out to E.W. Niedermeyer for his work, which led to this article. Give him a follow on Twitter.
Duane Norman is a Zero Hedge contributor who normally writes at Free Market Shooter.

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Priceless. Selling GM workers in Ohio, Cruze Sedans make in Mexico. There is no end to the travesty of free trade treason. Wake Up GM. Your Chevy people are totally devoted right up to the Mexican Border. You make those cars here or I'm not buying another GM product. You make it "over there", you sell it "over there". Don't bring that foreign crap in here disguised as made in Ohio and try to con US.

Good for this man to uncover this information, I guess now the VIN numbers will be checked and the import tax will be applied as it should be.