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“Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Trump asks Japanese reporter after question on Iran.

“Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Trump asks Japanese reporter after question on Iran.
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After a Japanese journalist asked President Donald Trump why the U.S. did not inform allies before striking Iran, Trump said he wanted the attack to be a surprise. “Because we wanted surprise, who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

Isaac Saul

Isaac Saul

I'm a politics reporter who grew up in Buck County, PA — one of the most politically divisive counties in America. I'm trying to fix the way we consume political news.

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