President Biden “bowed to progressives” on Tuesday when he broke precedent to become the first sitting commander in chief to visit a picket line, former President Barack Obama’s car czar said Wednesday, blasting the trip as “outrageous.”
Rattner led Obama’s auto industry task force in 2009 when billions in taxpayer money was used to rescue General Motors and Chrysler. “I get the politics. The progressives all said, ‘We don’t want a mediator; we want an advocate,’” Rattner said. “And he bowed to the progressives, and now he’s going out there to put his thumb on the scale. And it’s wrong.”