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Trump’s Carrier coup reveals credibility gap between Twitter rhetoric and economic reality

  • Written by Wesley Widmaier, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Griffith University

In a political coup, President-elect Donald Trump says that his transition team has struck a deal with Carrier’s Indianapolis plant to keep 1,000 jobs in the state.

Big day on Thursday for Indiana and the great workers of that wonderful state.We will keep our companies and jobs in the U.S. Thanks Carrier

— Donald J. Trump...

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