UAW President Shawn Fain criticized the event of 'Tesla CEO Musk supporting Trump' on Wednesday, and assisted Democratic presidential candidate Harris. The US Auto Workers Union President Shawn Fain (Shawn Fain) criticized the event of 'Tesla CEO Musk supporting Trump' on Wednesday and assisted Democratic presidential candidate Harris.

Fain said on Wednesday, 'For several months, Donald Trump has been denigrating our state, denigrating our industry, denigrating American auto workers, and saying he opposes electric cars.' 'We see Elon Musk announce that he will give Donald Trump 45 million dollars a month to suddenly change his (anti-electric car) tune,' he said. Trump is a person without principles.

'We see Elon Musk announce that he will give Donald Trump 45 million dollars a month to suddenly change his (anti-electric car) tune,' he said. Trump is a person without principles.

For months, Fain has been criticizing the former president as an 'ignoramus to the autos industry'. He called on the American working class to support Harris and praised the vice president for her record of serving the working class and said she will 'fight alongside us and declare war on corporate greed.'

"Long before the 'Stand Up' strike began, Kamala Harris went to the picket line in 2019 to oppose corporate price hiking and profiteering, spoke out publicly and voted against unfair trade deals that hurt American workers, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement." He pointed out.

As one of the largest unions in the United States, UAW plays an important role in presidential elections. UAW has more than 0.4 million active members and has considerable political influence in key swing states such as Michigan (UAW's headquarters). Previously, both Biden and Trump have repeatedly appeared in Michigan to attract voters, especially those employed by American auto manufacturers such as Ford Motor, General Motors, and Stellantis.

Event background

The situation is this. First of all, Trump has always favored gasoline vehicles and dislikes electric cars. Last week, he also emphasized that even if Musk supports his campaign, he opposes the idea of 'everyone owning an electric car'.

In July, some media reported that Musk planned to spend $45 million a month to support former President Trump's campaign. However, Musk has denied this. He said in an interview that although he has set up a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund Trump, he did not pledge to 'burst so much gold coins' every month.

However, he clarified that he did create a super PAC called 'America PAC' to support Trump's campaign for president.

It is understood that a super PAC is an organization that can raise unlimited funds to support the expenses of a candidate's campaign (such as advertising placement or daily operations), but does not directly donate to a candidate's campaign team. For 'ordinary' political action committees, US law specifies an upper limit of $5,000 in political donations per donor per year.

Although the above news is not true, Musk's support for Trump is obvious. In this regard, the fickle Trump changed his mind. He said that he must support electric cars because Elon Musk firmly supports his campaign for the US presidency. However, Trump claimed that he will only 'support electric cars as a small part of the automotive industry' as people have the freedom to choose between gasoline, hybrid, and electric cars.

He claimed that people want gasoline cars, hybrid cars, and electric cars, all of which are the consumers' freedom of choice. He also revealed that he will be interviewed by Elon Musk next Monday evening (August 12). Trump posted on Truth Social, 'On Monday night, I will have an important conversation with Elon Musk-details to be announced later!'

Musk has angered a lot of people

Musk's support for Trump has drawn criticism from many.

In addition to the UAW, Dirk Rossmann GmbH, a German chain pharmacy with 0.062 million employees and 4,700 stores across Europe, announced on Tuesday that it will stop buying electric cars from the company due to Tesla CEO Musk's support of Trump.

The spokesman for this retailer's management committee and founder's son Raoul Rossmann said in a statement: 'Elon Musk doesn't hide his support for Trump, and Trump repeatedly claims that climate change is only a scam-this kind of attitude is in stark contrast to Tesla's mission to produce electric cars for environmental protection.'

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