On Tuesday evening, former President and Republican candidate for a second term in the Oval Office Donald Trump pushed back hard against claims he supports the construction of a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated electric-vehicle battery plant in Big Rapids.

In a Truth Social post Trump shared on Twitter, he emphatically stated he opposes the plant “100%”.

“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. 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.”

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Trump’s statement was posted the day before a No Gotion event scheduled for a much-publicized NO GOTION event to be held Wednesday afternoon at a farm in Green Township in Mecosta County, the precise location where the Gotion plant is supposed to be built. Among the speakers at the event is Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow.

Gotion, the battery component manufacturer with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, previously celebrated comments from Trump, suggesting the Republican presidential nominee supports its planned plant in Michigan’s Mecosta County.

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“Union workers and all the nation’s working families are paying the price for dangerously liberal Kamala Harris’s failed economic policies. Harris’s radical electric vehicle mandate will destroy the livelihoods of countless U.S. autoworkers while sending the U.S. auto industry to China. President Trump will reverse Kamala Harris’s extreme electric vehicle mandate on Day One and save the U.S. auto industry for generations to come,” National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Midwesterner last month in response to the erroneous claims by Gotion.

The very same day, Team Trump Michigan Communications Director Victoria LaCivita weighed in, noting the national security threats posed by Chinese companies in the U.S.

“President Trump wants automotive manufacturing jobs to stay in Michigan and be staffed by Michiganders,” LaCivita said to The Midwesterner. “That’s what he’ll do as President. Chinese companies pose a threat to our national security, hurt our economy and our workers – President Trump wants to put Michigan back to work.”

Gotion’s assertion that Trump supported their Green Township endeavor in Green Township was a loose interpretation of a comment in which he said: ““If they want to come in and sell us cars, they can, but they have to build plants here and they have to hire our workers, and that’s fine.”

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Chuck Thelen, Gotion’s vice president, seized on Trump’s July 20 remarks in press release posted to Facebook by Thelen’s wife Tracey days later.

“Speaking just an hour away from our planned facility in Green Charter Township, former President Trump unequivocally supported the onshoring of electrification manufacturing in our state and the United States,” Thelen said. “He wants the people of Michigan and our local economy to thrive from these types of jobs. We’re honored to have President Trump’s trust to positively contribute to American manufacturing.”

Gotion’s planned $2.3 billion facility outside Big Rapids is subsidized by $715 million in taxpayer incentives approved by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her Democratic allies in the state legislature.

“Creating good-paying jobs for people who are struggling should never be a partisan issue,” Thelen said. “Both presidents clearly want Michigan residents and our local economy to benefit from these important jobs.”

Local opposition to the Gotion plant has been joined in the U.S. Congress by Michigan’s U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, chair of the U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

“The CCP has become increasingly hostile towards America. It flies spy balloons over our country, steals the inventions of the American people, buys our farmland, and tries to purchase land near our military bases,” Moolenaar said at a Green Township  event opposing Gotion held on July 26. He added that the proposed plant  would be located only 70 miles from the National Guard training facility in Grayling, posing a national security risk.

He noted at the time that his committee “identified multiple links between Gotion’s supply chain and this genocide,” and added, “In one example, Gotion sources aluminum foil from a subsidiary of Xinjiang Nonferrous, which is a CCP state-owned enterprise known for its prolific use of forced labor.”

Moolenaar also said the Department of Defense is prohibited from buying batteries from Gotion. “Our own military is telling us Gotion is a bad business partner, and yet state and some local officials refuse to listen.”