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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Trump made crude Oval Office remark about fate of Kurds in Syria, book says

Trump at the White House in August 2018. Trump’s resistance to briefings and often vulgar outbursts have been exhaustively reported.
Donald Trump at the White House in August 2018. Trump’s resistance to briefings and often vulgar outbursts have been exhaustively reported. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Donald Trump surprised his own national security adviser and a group of Republican congressmen and women when he interrupted an Oval Office briefing to ask why he should “give a fuck” about the fate of Kurds in Syria.

“Nothing we said worked,” Adam Kinzinger, until this year a Republican representative from Illinois, writes in a new book.

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