Trump’s media company has reportedly outsourced jobs to Mexico – amid Trump’s promise to impose tariffs on companies that outsource jobs

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Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, reportedly outsourced jobs to Mexicodespite the former president threatening to impose tariffs on companies that do the same.

Watchdog outlet ProPublica released a report over the weekend showing that Trump Media, the company that operates Truth Social, has hired workers from Mexico “to perform coding and other technical tasks.”

ProPublica reporters Robert Fatechi, Justin Elliott, And Alex Mierjeski wrote: “The company’s use of workers in Mexico was confirmed by a Trump Media spokesperson,” adding: “The reliance on foreign labor was met with outrage among the company’s own workforce, who accused management of To betray ‘America First’ ideals. .”

“Both as president and in his campaign for a second term, Trump has criticized companies that send jobs abroad, especially to Mexico. If elected, he has pledged to “stop outsourcing” and “punish” companies that send jobs abroad,” the report said.

ProPublica cited examples of Trump targeting companies that outsource to Mexico.

‘I’m normal Notify John Deere If you do that now, we will impose a 200 percent tariff on everything you want to sell to the United States,” Trump said.

He has issued a similar threat against automakers that build cars in Mexico, demanding they hire American workers and produce them domestically.

“I’m not going to let them build a factory across the border,” Trump promised, “and sell millions of cars to the United States and further destroy Detroit.”

In rebuttal, ProPublica quoted the unnamed spokesperson:

A spokesperson for Trump Media said the company uses “two individual employees” in Mexico. “Presenting the fact that (Trump Media) works with exactly two specialty contractors in Mexico as some kind of sensational scandal is just the latest in a long line of defamatory conspiracy theories created by the series producers at ProPublica,” the spokesperson said.

Last month, ProPublica reported on a whistleblower letter from staff to Trump Media calling on the board to fire the CEO and former Republican congressman Devin Nunes. The letter accuses Nunes of “severe” mismanagement of the company and violating its “America First” principles, the report said.

Read the full ProPublica article here.

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