AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) — President Donald Trump went to Austin, Texas, on Wednesday to tour a factory where Apple’s Mac Pro computers have been manufactured for about six years. Then Trump did the same thing he has done when he has visited other manufacturing facilities: wildly exaggerate his role in the facility’s existence. “We’re seeing the beginning of a very powerful and important plant. And anybody that followed my campaign, I would always talk about Apple — that I want to see Apple building plants in the United States. And that’s what’s happening,” Trump said while standing beside Apple CEO Tim Cook at the plant. Criticizing Democrats’ impeachment proceedings, Trump said the proceedings were occurring as “we’re opening up massive Apple plants.” US President Donald Trump (r) and Apple CEO Tim Cook speak to the press during a tour of the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where Apple’s Mac Pros are assembled in Austin, Texas, on November 20, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Shortly after he left Texas, Trump tweeted: “Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America. Today Nancy Pelosi closed Congress because she doesn’t care about American Workers!” Today I… Read full this story
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