Donald Trump's son, Eric, is picking up where his father left off by implying Ford is moving all manufacturing jobs to Mexico.

Ford just can’t seem to escape the fallout from the Presidential campaign of Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the automaker claiming it is moving jobs to Mexico.

Now Eric Trump, Trump’s second son and one of the GOP candidates top campaign surrogates, is going after Ford for its plan to shift small-car production to Mexico.

Top Ford executives have tried everything from tweets, television interviews, statement from the public relations staff and even a face to face meeting with executive chairman William Clay Ford Jr. to dissuade the Republican candidate from using the automaker in his campaign broadsides.

However, those efforts apparently fell on deaf ears as the younger Trump tweeted a photo Tuesday of a Ford plant in Brook Park, Ohio, and commented: “For anyone who wants to know what jobs leaving the USA looks like, here is the closed Ford plant in Brook Park.”

Brook Park has gone through some tough times in the past decade as Ford shut a casting plant in the Brook Park complex and scaled back work at one of the two engine plants that are part of the big complex.

However, Ford has also moved jobs from Spain and from Mexico back to Brook Park, which now builds engines for some of Ford’s most valuable products.

CEO Bill Ford met with Donald Trump to discuss his attacks on Ford Motor Co. Apparently Trump's son, Eric, was not part of the meeting.

In February, Ford announced early that it plans to invest $145 million to make upgrades to the once-diminished facility at 17601 Brook Park Road. These upgrades would create or retain 150 jobs to support the production of the 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine for the 2017 Ford F-150 lineup’s new Raptor.

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About 150 new jobs could come back to Brook Park’s Ford Engine Plant.

Cleveland Engine Plant currently produces the version of the 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine, which powers 2016 Ford F-150, Explorer, Expedition, Transit, Flex and Taurus. In addition to what it currently makes, the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor will be made there. It is powered by Ford’s all-new second-generation, high-output 3.5-liter EcoBoost that produces more power with greater efficiency than the previously used 6.2-liter V8.

Along with the current 3.5-liter EcoBoost for F-150, the plant builds the 2.0-liter EcoBoost for Edge, the 2.3-liter EcoBoost for Explorer, Mustang and Lincoln MKC, as well as the 3.7-liter V6 rear-wheel-drive application for Mustang.

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Mark Fields, Ford’s chief executive, has also sent a letter to Trump, noting that Ford has added 25,000 jobs in the U.S. since 2011 and plans to add another 8,500 during the next three or four years.

Trump and now his son have zeroed in on Ford’s plans to invest $2.5 billion in a new passenger-car assembly plant in Mexico even as it ramps up new trucks lines in the U.S.

The tweet is the latest case of the Trump campaign repeatedly criticizing Ford’s Mexican investments while ignoring the investments in Mexico by nearly all other automakers.

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During the 1960s the plant employed more than 15,000 workers, 10,000 of which worked in the casting plant’s foundry.

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