Tim Culpan, Columnist

Foxconn Plays Tax-Credit Poker With Wisconsin in Troubled Deal

There’s still a way forward, provided both sides want to patch things up.

President Donald Trump and Foxconn’s Terry Gou prepared to break ground in Wisconsin last year.

Photographer: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

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I won’t say I told you so. But I did.

Three years ago, when then President-elect Donald Trump started getting excited about the prospect of making iPhones in the U.S., I noted that Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou had some history in leading on government officials.