Trump disavows Chinese EV battery plant in Michigan: 'I AM 100% OPPOSED'

Former President Donald Trump this week expressed his opposition to a Chinese company's planned electric vehicle battery plant slated for construction in northern Michigan, claiming that it would essentially subjugate the local population to Beijing.

Gotion is an electric vehicle firm that maintains its headquarters in China. Its planned construction of the plant has attracted legal scrutiny from Green Township, which voted out much of its leadership last year in favor of candidates who opposed the plant. Nonetheless, Gotion secured a court ruling permitting construction to proceed, Fox17 reported in May.

"A few weeks ago, the Chinese Electric Vehicle battery company that Michigan Democrats support, Gotion, claimed that I support its EV battery plant planned for Northern Michigan. That is not true," Trump posted on Truth Social. "The Gotion plant would be very bad for the State and our Country. It would put Michiganders under the thumb of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing."

"I AM 100% OPPOSED! As your President, I will make America’s Auto Industry bigger and stronger than it has ever been before, PROTECT American Workers, and TERMINATE the Green New Scam," he continued.

The factory has the support of Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.