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lostincalifornia

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Mon Feb 16, 2026, 11:20 AM Monday

'Make America Great' billionaire slammed as he moves to offshore factory jobs to China [View all]

One of Donald Trump's earliest Wall Street backers is planning to move his Ohio manufacturing operation to China — and workers are calling on the president to save their jobs.

Workers are furious at hedge fund billionaire John Paulson — who has publicly praised Trump's tariffs as necessary to protect domestic manufacturing jobs — after he told union officials he intended to offshore most of the work at Conn Selmer by June, reported The Guardian.

“To go publicly on CNBC to support the Trump administration’s positive views on tariffs and all that stuff, and then you turn around and [say you] want to go send the work right over to China,” said Robert Hines, president of UAW Local 2359 and a worker at the plant. “It’s a slap in our face.”

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Hines, the union leader, said Paulson's decision to offshore 150 jobs in Ohio is deeply offensive after Paulson has publicly declared his support for domestic manufacturing, and he's hopeful Trump himself might persuade his ally to s
top the move.

https://www.rawstory.com/make-america-great/

and here are a few of the comments to this report:

"and workers are calling on the president to save their jobs
Do these idiots remember how that worked out for Trane, Carrier Corp., Rexnord, Harley Davidson, Schneider Electric, Siemens, General Motors, and a host of other companies where Cheetolini showed up for the photo op and a few months later they moved anyway, after collecting tax payer dollars to stay?
Of course they don't."

"Hines, the union leader, said Paulson's decision to offshore 150 jobs in Ohio is deeply offensive after Paulson has publicly declared his support for domestic manufacturing, (and he's hopeful Trump himself might persuade his ally to stop the move.)... Good luck with that."

"Welp before I care...WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR?"


https://www.rawstory.com/make-america-great/#comments_section_start




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