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Michael Sainato

‘Another snake-oil salesman’s pitch’: US workers wary of Trump’s steel deal

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Donald Trump on stage at the steel plant in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania on Friday. Photograph: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Donald Trump, once “totally against” Nippon Steel of Japan’s controversial $14bn takeover bid for US Steel, the second largest US steel producer, is now hailing the deal as a turning point for the struggling industry.

“We won’t be able to call this section a Rust belt any more,” the US president declared at a plant in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on Friday. “It’ll be a golden belt.”

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