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Chrysler Exec Calls Trump 'Full Of' It Over Jeep Claim

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In a tweet this morning, Donald Trump repeated a false claim made by the Romney campaign that Chrysler is moving Jeep production to China. It prompted an angry response from Chrysler Group Vice President for Product Design Ralph Gilles:

According to the Detroit Free Press, Gilles is "viewed as a well-respected and talented executive who easily could have left Chrysler when it was struggling but opted to stay with the troubled automaker as it went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy."

This morning, Chrysler posted its best October sales figures since before the financial crisis and auto bailout.

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Senior editor Alex Davies helms Insider's Transportation vertical, where he first worked from 2012 to 2014. In the interim, he spent six years at Wired, where he launched the transportation section and specialized in covering autonomous and electric vehicles. His book chronicling the origin of and race to create the self-driving car, Driven, is now out in paperback. A native New Yorker, he lives in Oakland, California.