Columbus, OH – There is a “string of inconsistencies” “dogg[ing]” Bernie Moreno as new reports expose he’s lied about everything from selling Chinese-made SUVs, to getting rid of Cleveland State’s Confucius Institute, to “escap[ing]” socialism, to lying about his business origin story.
What Ohioans are reading about the “string of inconsistencies” “dogg[ing]” Moreno:
- Spectrum News: “Moreno says that when he owned a Buick GMC dealership in Beachwood, Ohio, he even refused to sell a Buick SUV model made in China, the Envision…However, Moreno’s dealership did sell the Chinese-made SUVs for several years, and even promoted the vehicles on social media.”
- Cleveland.com: “Fact check: Spectrum News’s Taylor Popielarz reports that auto dealers that Moreno previously owned sold a Buick SUV model manufactured in China, despite the Republican Senate nominee touting his refusal to do so during campaign appearances. The issue has to do with the Buick Envision, which Moreno’s dealerships promoted and sold from 2014 until 2019.”
- Columbus Dispatch: “But the timing doesn’t line up. While Moreno did chair the board, his term expired three years before Cleveland State shuttered its Confucius Institute. He also held leadership positions when trustees approved university budgets that funded the program.”
- Politico Playbook: “Bernie Moreno said an Ohio Confucius Institute closed under his watch. It didn’t,” by the Columbus Dispatch’s Haley BeMiller: “[T]he timing doesn’t line up. While [BERNIE] MORENO did chair the board, his term expired three years before Cleveland State shuttered its Confucius Institute. He also held leadership positions when trustees approved university budgets that funded the program.”
- The Guardian: “Bernie Moreno…says his family fled socialism when they came to the US from Colombia in 1971, when he was four years old. Though such statements formed a central part of Moreno’s campaign message…they do not withstand historical scrutiny.”
- WVXU: “Moreno carries baggage into the race…some dubious claims about his family escaping socialism in Colombia when he was a child.”
- The Guardian: “[Moreno] has made dubious claims in his campaign”
- Politico Playbook: “Bernie Moreno’s family history is under scrutiny.”
- Columbus Dispatch: Letter: “Bernie Moreno thinks lying is OK.”
- Business Insider: “Moreno, an immigrant from Colombia, has frequently touted… his ability to do it all on his own […] yet when Moreno bought his first car dealership in 2005, he got some extra help.”
- Cleveland.com: “Although GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno says his family fled socialism when it came to the US from Colombia in 1971, the first leftwing Colombian government in modern times didn’t come into power until 2022, the Guardian reports.”
- Roll Call: “Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee in Ohio’s hotly contested Senate race, has long said his family fled socialist Colombia and settled in the United States. But The Guardian examined Moreno’s claim and found that the dates don’t add up…at the time Moreno’s family left Colombia in the early 1970s, there was nothing at all resembling socialism running the country.”
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