December 7, 2016 🟡 Significant

Attacks union leader Chuck Jones for fact-checking Carrier job numbers

After United Steelworkers Local 1999 President Chuck Jones appeared on CNN to correct Trump’s inflated claims about the number of jobs saved at the Carrier plant (noting only 800 were saved, not 1,100), Trump attacked him on Twitter, saying Jones did a “terrible job representing workers.” The targeted harassment led to Jones receiving death threats, marking an escalation in Trump’s use of his platform to intimidate private citizens who contradicted him.

“has done a terrible job representing workers” — Twitter post Quote verified against source