“You accept the invitation. That is what respect for the office and for the country in which we invest demands.”

Audi defends decision to stand by Trump on $4 billion factory in Georgia – The head of German automaker Audi defended on Sunday the company’s planned $4 billion investment in a new US plant, announced by President Donald Trump as he campaigns for the November midterm elections.

Audi Chief Executive Gernot Doellner stood alongside Trump at a rally in Perry, near Macon in central Georgia on Saturday, as the US president said Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group VOWG_p.DE, planned to build an assembly plant in Georgia that will produce 200,000 SUVs annually.