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Trump’s First 100 Days: A Study In ‘Fake News,’ Hoaxes, And Misleading Headlines

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The White House said on Monday that reports claiming President Donald Trump was moving toward a 90-day pause on tariffs are &#8220;wrong.&#8221;
After National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discussed Trump&#8217;s tariffs during an interview on Fox News, reports falsely stated that Hassett revealed the president was considering a pause on all tariffs except those imposed on China. The claim was spread by numerous X accounts with large followings and was also discussed on <a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/1909250858044313876" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a>, sparking a short-lived spike in the stock market on Monday morning.
A White House official told Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan that reports of a tariff pause are fake news.
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White House official tells me this is fake news. Tweet has also been deleted: <a href="https://t.co/Y9K0MEVj1X">pic.twitter.com/Y9K0MEVj1X</a>
&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1909256397306331146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Wrong. Not only did Director Hassett not say this (clip below), @POTUS has been clear — &#8216;it all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!'&#8221; the White House&#8217;s Rapid Response X account stated.
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Wrong. Not only did Director Hassett not say this (clip below), <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> has been clear — &quot;it all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3Kvt8AScAZ">https://t.co/3Kvt8AScAZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/JHucHjZm3S">pic.twitter.com/JHucHjZm3S</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1909254335822692548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Reports of a tariff pause began swirling after billionaire hedge fund manager and Trump backer Bill Ackman urged the president &#8220;to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.&#8221;
&#8220;If, on the other hand, on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate,&#8221; Ackman <a href="https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1908992002366292286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on X.
When asked about Ackman&#8217;s comments and a possible pause on tariffs during his interview on &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371175485112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox &amp; Friends</a>,&#8221; Hassett replied, &#8220;The president is going to decide what the president is going to decide.&#8221;
&#8220;There are more than 50 countries in negotiation with the president,&#8221; Hassett added. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got the prime minister of Israel coming today. We&#8217;ve had a reach-out overnight from Taiwan, but I would urge everyone, especially Bill, to ease off the rhetoric a little bit. &#8230; The idea that it&#8217;s going to be a nuclear winter or something like that is completely irresponsible rhetoric.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114296801411259400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social Monday morning, Trump again asked Americans to be patient as his tariffs on nearly every country in the world go into effect.
&#8220;The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!),&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!&#8221;

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A rapid response team created by the Democratic National Committee shared a fake video of Donald Trump Jr. purportedly saying the U.S. &#8220;should have been sending weapons to Russia,&#8221; not Ukraine.
FactPostNews posted the video of Trump Jr. speaking with someone who prompted, “But they forget that Ukraine isn’t the kind of country you go all in on — this is ridiculous,” Mediaite <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/viral-video-of-don-jr-arguing-america-should-have-been-sending-weapons-to-russia-is-fake/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding, “The alleged comments went viral on social media, and were promoted by a number of prominent accounts including <a href="https://archive.ph/keItD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FactPost</a>, which is run by the Democratic National Committee.”
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The Democratic National Committee shared a fake clip of Donald Trump Jr. saying the US should have sent weapons to Russia, not Ukraine. <a href="https://t.co/pJQPTV8hwZ">https://t.co/pJQPTV8hwZ</a>
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) <a href="https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1894873341107863640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The video reportedly shows Trump Jr. responding, “I honestly can’t imagine anyone in their right mind picking Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option. I mean, just think about it: Massive nuclear power loaded with natural resources everyone needs, literally the biggest country on the planet. And ha ha, there’s Ukraine, which has Chernobyl, and some radiation-proof dogs. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is definitely the ally we need. Let’s dump all our money into them.’ Honestly, if anything, the U.S. should have been sending weapons to Russia.”
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I deleted a post with a clip of Don Jr talking abt Russia bc I&#39;m having a hard time tracking down the source of it. It&#39;s circulating on a number of big X accounts, but when I scrolled through the podcast from which it purportedly came, I couldn&#39;t find original soundbite. Will…
&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1894849661422178366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Democratic National Committee <a href="https://democrats.org/news/icymi-dnc-launches-new-factpost-digital-accounts-economic-messaging-to-take-on-trumps-billionaire-cabinet-as-confirmation-hearings-kick-off/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the formation of FactPostNews in mid-January, heading the announcement, “DNC Launches New FactPost Digital Accounts, Economic Messaging to Take on Trump’s ‘Billionaire Cabinet’ as Confirmation Hearings Kick Off.” In the announcement, the DNC hilariously trumpeted the “wildly popular @KamalaHQ social media team” as they stated:
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The Democratic National Committee is tapping veterans of the wildly popular @KamalaHQ social media team for a new rapid response push ahead of Donald Trump’s return to office. … The new rapid response @FactPostNews initiative will try to combat online misinformation and respond to Trump administration actions by pushing out memes, videos and graphics. … The DNC is also teeing up fresh economic attacks on Trump as he takes office, per a memo obtained by Axios. &#8230; @FactPostNews will start on X, Threads, and Bluesky and will eventually expand to TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.
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With President Donald Trump following through on his campaign promise to deport illegal immigrants, the media and left-wing politicians have begun a campaign to turn the American people against the administration.
The latest example comes from Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which falsely claimed on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had shown up at Hamline Elementary School but were denied entrance, ABC 7 <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-immigration-customs-enforcement-agents-denied-entry-hamline-elementary-school-back-yards-cps-officials/15833738/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The federal officials were actually from the U.S. Secret Service and investigating a threat.
Before the truth came out – and even after – Democrats accused the Trump administration of conducting “raids” on elementary schools. Hamline Elementary School principal Natasha Ortega released a statement saying, &#8220;We will not open our doors for ICE, and we are here to protect our children and make sure they have access to an excellent education.”
Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker repeated the false accusation on X, calling the situation “cruel” even though it never happened.
“After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school,” Pritzker <a href="https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1882900706132402318" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. “Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American.”
Alderman Raymond Lopez justified the false information after it was revealed ICE wasn’t involved <a href="https://x.com/RaymondALopez/status/1882910558162501943" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by saying,</a> “This scenario is precisely what I was fighting so hard to avoid with my colleagues on the City Council this past month: giving immigration officials an excuse to come into our communities.”
Fox News’ Bill Melugin noted that it appeared no one spreading the false information had reached out to the Department of Homeland Security or ICE, saying that both denied that ICE agents came to the school or were even in the area.
In an updated announcement issued after the initial false claims spread, CPS admitted that it was Secret Service agents who had come to the school. School officials said they assumed the agents were from ICE because their identification showed they were part of the Department of Homeland Security – which also oversees the Secret Service.
“While this was a misunderstanding in terms of the specific branch of DHS, the school&#8217;s response demonstrates that our system, in partnership with community organizations, is prepared and ready to keep our students and staff safe,&#8221; CPS said in a statement published by ABC 7.
Secret Service told the outlet they were investigating a threat and had gone to a house, where they were told the person they were looking for was at the elementary school.
Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson noted after the truth came out that it is &#8220;imperative that individuals not spread unverified information that sparks fear across the city.&#8221;
Trump has barely been in office for a week, but the Left has already attempted to manufacture disapproval of the policies that got him elected. On the day of his inauguration, media outlets shared a video of a woman at the border supposedly crying because she could not gain asylum by illegally crossing the border.
So far, ICE <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homan-ice-has-made-1300-arrests-including-pedophiles-gang-members-and-at-least-1-terrorist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has arrested 1,300 illegal immigrants</a>, Border Czar Tom Homan <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1882600909710168202" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation host Chris Cuomo.
“Over a thousand of them are criminals. Who are the other ones? They’re either fugitives who’ve been through immigration court, have been ordered to be removed but didn’t, became a fugitive, or collaterals,” Homan told the host. “Look, I said from day one, no one’s off the table. If you’re in the United States illegally, you’ve got a problem. But we are concentrating on public safety threats first. That just makes sense.”

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Latest Anti-Trump Hoax: Chicago School District Falsely Claims ICE Came To Elementary Campus

Latest Anti-Trump Hoax: Chicago Claims ICE Came To School, Was Actually Secret Service

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The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of disgraced actor Jussie Smollett who was found guilty of filing a false police report in 2019 after claiming he was the victim of a hate crime.
The court overturned the ruling because it said he was unjustly prosecuted a second time after he was given a sweetheart deal by George Soros-backed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx that resolved the matter as part of a negotiated settlement.
“We hold that a second prosecution under these circumstances is a due process violation, and we therefore reverse defendant’s conviction,” Justice Elizabeth M. Rochford wrote in the opinion.
A lawyer for Smollett said in a statement: “We are thankful to the Illinois Supreme Court for restoring order to Illinois’ criminal law jurisprudence.”
In January 2019, Smollett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-granted-chance-to-appeal-conviction-to-illinois-supreme-court">claimed</a> he was walking alone at night in Chicago during a polar vortex when two supporters of President Donald Trump — allegedly carrying rope and bleach — recognized him from his role on “Empire” and brutally attacked him while yelling racial and homophobic slurs.
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Smollett returned to a friend’s home and called the police, still wearing the noose that he said was placed around his neck by his purported attackers.
It was later reported that Smollett hired two Nigerian brothers he had previously worked with to stage the attack to raise his profile and hopefully get him a raise on “Empire” and further his acting career. The brothers alleged that Smollett paid them to buy plain red hats that he later claimed were “Make American Great Again” (MAGA) hats, signaling the attackers’ support of Trump.
In September 2020, Smollett insisted he was “set up” and continued to claim that he was attacked by two white men wearing MAGA hats. The brothers who said they were paid to stage the attack are black. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-insists-he-was-set-up-says-he-has-two-new-witnesses-to-refuse-hoax-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time that Smollett suddenly started claiming he had two witnesses who could prove he did not fake the attack.
After Chicago police investigated Smollett’s original claims for two weeks, they suspected he had staged the attack. Smollett was charged with 16 counts of lying to police, but those charges were dropped as part of the plea deal he was given by Foxx.
Ashe Schow contributed to this report.

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s rapid response team took a swing at former President Donald Trump, and they used a deceptively edited video of him speaking at a recent rally to do it.
The rapid response team account for Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) shared the video via X, claiming that the former president had referred to all immigrants as &#8220;animals.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump: &#8216;Democrats said please don&#8217;t call immigrants animals. I said, no, they&#8217;re not humans, they&#8217;re animals.'&#8221;
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Trump: Democrats said please don’t call immigrants animals. I said, no, they’re not humans, they’re animals <a href="https://t.co/yJ7fFHEUlh">pic.twitter.com/yJ7fFHEUlh</a>
&mdash; Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1775239307239813526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But as conservative strategist Greg Price was quick to point out, the quote — while accurate — was presented without the context that came immediately before the video clip began: Trump was speaking about a specific illegal immigrant, the man who has been charged in the slaying of college student Laken Riley, at the time.
&#8220;The 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was barbarically murdered by an illegal alien animal — the Democrats say please don&#8217;t call them animals, they&#8217;re humans. I said no, they&#8217;re not humans, they&#8217;re animals,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Nancy Pelosi told me that, she said please don&#8217;t use the word animals when you&#8217;re talking about these people. I said I&#8217;ll use the word animal because that&#8217;s what they are.&#8221;
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Here we go again.
If you go go less than 10 seconds before @BidenHQ&#39;s clip starts, Trump is referring specifically to the illegal alien who murdered Laken Riley. <a href="https://t.co/uxud1nAe4w">https://t.co/uxud1nAe4w</a> <a href="https://t.co/2gqYA4spxO">pic.twitter.com/2gqYA4spxO</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1775260963102405028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trump had previously <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-hell-keep-using-animals-to-describe-gang-members" target="_blank" rel="noopener">butted heads</a> with Pelosi and others on the same issue when, in 2018, he repeatedly referred to MS-13 gang members as &#8220;animals.&#8221;
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&#8220;We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them,&#8221; Trump said after Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims complained about California laws barring cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration authorities. &#8220;You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals.&#8221;
When critics attacked him, claiming that he was painting all immigrants with that label, Trump clarified his remarks:
&#8220;MS-13, these are animals coming onto our country. When the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country, I refer to them as animals. And guess what? I always will.&#8221;
Trump has also used the term when speaking about school shooters and terrorists.

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Donald Trump&#8217;s best friends are in the legacy media.
I don&#8217;t mean that Donald Trump is friends with people in the legacy media, I mean they are helping him.
Members of the legacy media have been playing this incredibly stupid game since 2015, and the reason they play this game with Trump is because they play it all the time with other Republican politicians.
The game goes like this: Donald Trump says something that uses a bit of inflammatory language in a completely non-inflammatory context, the media then proceed to cut out the inflammatory language from the non-inflammatory context and then blow it up.
They&#8217;ve been doing this with Republicans for as long as I&#8217;ve been alive.
The weird thing about doing it with Trump is that Trump frequently says wild things. They don&#8217;t even have to do it with Trump. What they end up doing, however, is essentially showing the American public they are willing to say anything about Trump.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1927-bloodbath-the-fake-news-strikes-again-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
The latest example comes courtesy of the entire legacy media who decided to jump on a clip of Donald Trump at a political rally over the weekend — while the media is in a sheer state of panic about the 2024 race. They should be.
According to the Real Clear Politics <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/election">polling average</a>, Donald Trump is currently almost two points up in the national average. He&#8217;s currently leading in every single battleground state. Joe Biden is in deep trouble and so the media are looking for some sort of headline that is going to gin up the Democratic base.
Thus, they have to find something that says Donald Trump is a severe danger and he is going to overthrow the Republic; that there will be blood in the streets, the case that Joe Biden has been making since 2020. They say that Donald Trump isn&#8217;t just a problem — he’s a threat to the very nature of the Republic.
Joe Biden gave the worst speech I can remember, standing in front of a blood-red Independence Hall and suggesting his political opponents were going to overthrow our democracy.
That is the line the entire media have been told to repeat over and over and over for the duration of this election cycle.
And so they decided over the weekend they found the golden ticket. They found the clip of Donald Trump promising violence in the streets.
Here’s what actually Trump said:
<blockquote>Mexico has taken over a period of 30 years 34% of the automobile manufacturing business in our country. Think of it, went to Mexico. China now is building a couple of massive plants where they are going to build the cars in Mexico and think, they think, that they&#8217;re going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border? 
Let me tell you something to China. If you&#8217;re listening, President Xi — you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal — those big monster car manufacturing plants that you&#8217;re building in Mexico right now, and you think you&#8217;re going to get that you&#8217;re going to not hire Americans and you&#8217;re going to sell the cars to us now, we&#8217;re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you&#8217;re not going to be able to sell those. 
If I get elected now, if I don&#8217;t get elected, it&#8217;s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — That&#8217;s going to be the least of it. It&#8217;s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That&#8217;ll be the least of it. But they&#8217;re not going to sell those cars.</blockquote>
He&#8217;s literally talking about his plan to place a tariff on Chinese imports. That&#8217;s his plan, right? Tariffing Chinese cars imported via Mexico into the United States. And he says that if he gets elected, it&#8217;ll be good for the economy; and if he doesn’t, then there will be an economic bloodbath.
Now, that&#8217;s the sort of language that occurs constantly in American politics. Democrats often use the word “bloodbath” in a variety of contexts, talking about political bloodbaths and economic bloodbaths.
No one assumes what they mean is that there will be actual murder in the streets with the blood flowing freely into the gutters.
The word “bloodbath” happens a lot in American politics because it means a slaughter. We use violent language a lot because it&#8217;s evocative, but it doesn&#8217;t mean that somebody&#8217;s about to get killed or there&#8217;s going to be a civil war.
Obviously Trump was talking about an economic bloodbath, but — what did the media do? When Donald Trump said, “If I&#8217;m not elected, there will be a bloodbath,” they took that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medias-wall-to-wall-coverage-of-trump-bloodbath-comment-delivers-zero-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">out of context</a> and then proceeded to claim that what Trump was saying is that if he was not elected, that there would be a full-scale insurrectionist civil war in the United States with bodies in the streets.
Nancy Pelosi <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/03/17/sotu-pelosi-on-trump.cnn">said</a>, 
<blockquote>We just have to win this election because he&#8217;s even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean? He&#8217;s going to exact a bloodbath. There&#8217;s something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness. But how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn&#8217;t what our country is about?</blockquote>
Jen Psaki, former press secretary for Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/17/psaki_the_full_context_of_trumps_bloodbath_comment_is_that_he_supports_insurrection.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>:
<blockquote>The full context is that this is much bigger than one single speech. This embrace of political violence, this dehumanizing language. This is what Donald Trump has been preaching for years. In January, he warned that there will be, “Bedlam in this country if his criminal prosecution derailed his campaign.” In 2020 he reportedly asked his defense secretary about shooting people who were protesting the death of George Floyd, saying, “Can&#8217;t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something.” And of course, his very words inspired violence on January 6, 2021, when he told a crowd of his supporters to walk down the Capitol and fight like hell because, “You&#8217;ll never take back our country with weakness.”
Trust me, I could go on and on and on. We all know by now that Trump&#8217;s allusions to political violence are not merely rhetorical. His supporters take them literally. That&#8217;s part of the big problem here. And he knows that, too. So, no, we did not miss the full context. This was not some meandering yesterday comment. This is his message.</blockquote>
This is always the game with Trump: Take a comment and then spin it up to its greatest possible allusion while ignoring all possible context.
But you know why it helps Donald Trump?
Because everyone starts ignoring the media: they’re the boy who cried wolf. 
And if Trump does say something that really is egregious, there&#8217;s no place to go because the media already turned the dial up to 11.
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Former President Donald Trump slammed the media on Monday after multiple outlets ran out of context headlines on a prediction he made about there being a “bloodbath” in the auto industry job market due to President Joe Biden’s policies. 
NBC News, CBS News, Rolling Stone, and other outlets published headlines on Trump&#8217;s &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; comments excluding the fact that he was referring to American auto workers being hurt by Biden&#8217;s trade policies. Trump made the remarks during a speech in Ohio on Saturday. 
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“The Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation, pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112116580305482725" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on his Truth Social platform. “The United Auto Workers, but not their leadership, fully understand what I mean.” 
Trump also took a shot at Biden&#8217;s electric vehicle policies, which he said would lead to no cars being made in the United States. 
“With the Electric Car Mandate being pushed by Biden, there soon won’t be any cars made in the USA &#8211; UNLESS I’M ELECTED PRESIDENT, IN WHICH CASE AUTO MANUFACTURING WILL THRIVE LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!! MAGA2024,” he said. 
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During his Ohio rally, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/complete-propaganda-media-and-biden-campaign-blasted-over-coverage-of-trumps-bloodbath-prediction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that China was building manufacturing plants in Mexico to sell cars in the United States &#8220;with no tax at the border.&#8221;
“Let me tell you something to China, if you’re listening President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal,” he continued. “Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us?”
“No. We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going be able to sell those cars. If I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it,&#8221; he said. 
After the speech, NBC News ran a headline saying, &#8220;Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election,” while CBS News said, “In Ohio campaign rally, Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses November election.&#8221; Biden’s campaign also commented, <a href="https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1769163262283706801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">releasing a statement</a> on the “bloodbath” remark without a single mention of cars but repeated mentions of violence.
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Right when it seems like all hope is gone and that political correctness has ruined all of sports, along comes a man by the name of Francis &#8220;Biff&#8221; Poggi to really give it to the media for being the sidewinders they really are.
Poggi, the new head coach of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 49ers, unloaded on journalists Tuesday after they only asked him a few questions during a press conference after ranking his team dead last — <a href="https://247sports.com/college/temple/article/temple-football-picked-to-finish-10th-in-aac-preseason-poll-213165185/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14 out of 14</a> — in an AAC preseason poll as voted by sports writers.
&#8220;That’s it? Three questions?&#8221; Poggi <a href="https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/07/27/biff-poggi-charlotte-college-football-rips-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at AAC media day. &#8220;Maybe that’s because you have us ranked last. That’s all that you think of us. So &#8230; we get that message. Thank you.&#8221;
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😏 🤌🏻 <a href="https://twitter.com/BiffPoggi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BiffPoggi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BadCompany?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BadCompany</a> <a href="https://t.co/Spv3edQiBV">pic.twitter.com/Spv3edQiBV</a>
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Poggi, one of the<a href="https://pressboxonline.com/2023/01/17/for-baltimore-high-school-football-legend-biff-poggi-wildly-exciting-to-lead-charlotte/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> best high school football coaches</a> in Baltimore history and a former University of Michigan associate head coach, joined SiriusXM radio to break down why he was disgusted by the &#8220;disrespect.&#8221;
&#8220;You guys suck, let’s get to the next guys,&#8221; Poggi said, mocking the media. &#8220;And I would like to take whoever those writers were who voted on that, and hold them upside down by their ankles and smack their heads off the ground a couple times because they don’t know sh*t.&#8221;
Warning: Profane language:
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It’s the first season for <a href="https://twitter.com/CharlotteFTBL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CharlotteFTBL</a> in the <a href="https://twitter.com/American_Conf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@American_Conf</a> and head coach <a href="https://twitter.com/BiffPoggi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BiffPoggi</a> is out to prove people wrong after being voted last in the preseason media poll, as he told <a href="https://twitter.com/RoyPhilpott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RoyPhilpott</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldStandard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldStandard</a> <a href="https://t.co/L1hHNVxSA1">pic.twitter.com/L1hHNVxSA1</a>
&mdash; College Sports on SiriusXM (@SXMCollege) <a href="https://twitter.com/SXMCollege/status/1684336914235641857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Poggi is well respected by two of the best coaches in college football and many others.
Upon his hiring at Charlotte last November, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh said in a statement, &#8220;Biff has been a tremendous asset to our University of Michigan Football program, providing support and mentorship to our coaching staff and players. He has a great football mind, knows how to prepare a team during the week and on game day, and is a coach that aims to change the lives of his players in a positive way. Biff is a trusted agent and known friend, and I know that his leadership and ability to develop a team-first culture will be a huge asset to the Charlotte 49ers.&#8221;
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University of Alabama head coach Nick Saban also praised him.
&#8220;Biff Poggi will generate excitement and success for the program,&#8221; Saban said. &#8220;The players will love playing for him and the coaches will love working with him.  Get ready to win!&#8221;
Saban, of course, has also been known to let the media have it. Here&#8217;s a sampling of some of his best moments:
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Poggi&#8217;s comments are worth re-emphasizing so that readers can really get a visual for what he wants to do to journalists.
He said he wanted to &#8220;hold them upside down by their ankles and smack their heads off the ground a couple times&#8221; — like a pogo stick — &#8220;because they don’t know sh*t.&#8221;
That masterful use of the English language paints a vivid picture. Not since the days of NCAA basketball Coach Bobby Knight have we been given such a soundbite.
And how about Poggi&#8217;s undying belief in his players? To steal a phrase from Harbaugh, the 49ers must be ready to attack today with &#8220;an enthusiasm unknown to mankind&#8221; after his remarks.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Legacy Media&#8217;s lack of interest in stories that damage the Democratic brand is never surprising, but it is always illuminating.
The latest example can be found in the lapdog press&#8217;s utter disinterest in a bombshell memo naming and shaming Biden family members who allegedly took huge chunks of cash from a Chinese Communist Party-linked energy company isn&#8217;t surprising. That report was released by Representative James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, earlier this week.
Comer and others alleged that the energy company in question funneled more than $1 million in payments to Biden family members, including Hunter Biden (son), James Biden (brother), Hallie Biden (daughter-in-law), and a fourth “unknown Biden” from 2015 to 2017, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-communist-party-linked-company-funneled-over-1-million-to-biden-family-members-house-republicans-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The alleged evidence was found thanks to a recent subpoena of John Robinson Walker, a Biden family associate, and his company Robinson Walker, LLC. House Republicans alleged that Walker used his business to transfer money from the Chinese State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy, to Biden family members.
For what purposes? That remains unclear, but, as Comer has reminded us, this is only one transaction pointing to possible corruption.
A story like that, especially in light of the &#8220;laptop from hell,&#8221; is explosive and has national consequences. And yet, Thursday evening, CBS, ABC, and NBC simply couldn&#8217;t find time for it in their evening TV newscasts, <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/03/16/nets-ignore-bidens-daughter-law-receiving-chinese-wire-transfer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NewsBusters. NBC News did cover it online late Thursday evening, but the story hardly made &#8220;front page news&#8221; for the outlet.
This &#8220;bias by omission,&#8221; as described by the media watchdog, is the norm for those sorts of outlets.
It is part of the longstanding, unspoken agreement between legacy media and the government. Whether intentionally or as a by-product of their own political inclinations, it has become a cornerstone of American politics that traditional media simply won&#8217;t report, or do the minimum coverage possible, on that which harms the Democratic agenda.
Most Americans <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/02/15/trust-in-media-low-misinform-mislead-biased-republicans-democrats-poll-gallup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seem to believe that</a>, which is why trust in the press is at record lows.
Perhaps it would be better if these outlets simply admitted their Leftist biases. It certainly would be a lot more honest than claiming to be &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; and objective.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A CNN insider claimed the network&#8217;s former president Jeff Zucker ordered staffers to forego investigating the COVID origins lab leak theory, arguing the discussion would only serve as a &#8220;Trump talking point.&#8221;
&#8220;People are slowly waking up from the fog,&#8221; the insider told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/credibility-crisis-cnn-boss-ordered-staff-not-chase-down-covid-lab-leak-theory">Fox News Digital</a>. &#8220;It is kind of crazy that we didn&#8217;t chase it harder.&#8221;
Zucker&#8217;s disdain for anything related to former President Donald Trump drove the network into an anti-Trump operation from the moment he descended an escalator at Trump Tower and announced his bid for the White House nearly eight years ago. From that day forward, the network pushed countless false accusations, misapplied or misrepresented facts, and omitted pertinent information surrounding Trump&#8217;s only term in office.
When COVID began spreading across the globe three years ago, a concerted effort formed almost instantly from legacy media, public health officials, and Democrat Party politicians to suppress or dismiss the idea the virus possibly leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the central Chinese city.
Zucker and other CNN officials played a role in attempting to debunk such narratives about the pandemic.
Under Zucker&#8217;s watch, CNN&#8217;s Oliver Darcy published a story headlined, &#8220;Here&#8217;s how to debunk coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories from friends and family,&#8221; on March 28, 2020, which attempted to give the network&#8217;s sinking viewership advice on how to converse with family and friends who refused to believe the mainstream media&#8217;s take on COVID.
&#8220;While the coronavirus pandemic has isolated family and friends inside their homes, it has in many cases increased online or over-the-phone communication with loved ones,&#8221; Darcy wrote. &#8220;But, in some cases, relatives and friends share poor information – whether it is bad science related to how to prevent the virus, debunked rumors about cities being put on lockdown, or conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19.&#8221;
Darcy added the so-called misinformation related to a public health crisis poses a risk to those who fall victim to it — one of the many reports to come out of the network dismissing anything that goes against the mainstream narrative.
CNN host Fareed Zakaria said during a broadcast that &#8220;the far right has now found its own virus conspiracy theory&#8221; when discussing the lab leak.
Independent journalist Tom Elliott compiled a Twitter thread of receipts last week showcasing clips of legacy media pundits and reporters from CNN and other Left-wing outlets dismissing the lab leak as a &#8220;conspiracy theory.&#8221;
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CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewGriffinCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrewGriffinCNN</a>: “Zero proof” behind “conspiracy theory” that Covid originated not from nature but a Chinese bio lab <a href="https://t.co/kpFQV8V37I">pic.twitter.com/kpFQV8V37I</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1630268426626236417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Zucker resigned from his post last year after an internal investigation into disgraced former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo revealed that the former network president had an ongoing consensual relationship — with top marketing officer Allison Gollust — at the media network that he had failed to disclose to the company.
CNN officials later replaced Zucker with Chris Licht, who almost immediately instituted changes at the cable outlet to restore trust in the network &#8220;by being an organization that exemplifies the best characteristics of journalism.&#8221;
The &#8220;well-known&#8221; CNN insider that accused Zucker of bypassing the controversial origins theory of COVID comes as the U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently stated the virus leaked from the Chinese laboratory in question.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Department of Energy officials revised a previous document that judged with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; that the virus had leaked from a Chinese laboratory.
New classified intelligence recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress showed Energy Department officials shifted their assessment of the pandemic&#8217;s origins in an updated 2021 report by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines&#8217;s office. The updated classified report also affirms the view that COVID did not stem from a biological weapons program. The Journal noted that a lack of a definitive animal source had led researchers and U.S. officials to suspect a leak from Wuhan&#8217;s assemblage of laboratories.
FBI Director Christopher Wray also recently said the bureau assessed that the origins of COVID most likely leaked from a Wuhan lab.
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The National Intelligence Council and four agencies, which the Journal says officials refuse to identify, still believe with &#8220;low confidence&#8221; in the natural emergence theory. The Central Intelligence Agency and two other agencies reportedly still have not made a determination.
Subcommittee members from the U.S. House of Representatives investigating the origins of COVID and the federal government’s gain of function research pushed a new memo Sunday claiming new evidence suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci “prompted the drafting&#8221; of &#8220;Proximal Origins&#8221; to disprove the lab leak theory.

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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper accused POLITICO of &#8220;deliberately&#8221; misrepresenting a letter he and 50 other intelligence veterans signed regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Clapper, who served as the nation&#8217;s spy chief during the Obama administration, said the letter did not assert that reporting on the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation operation, a notion that POLITICO peddled with its headline when first reporting the existence of the letter.
“There was message distortion,” Clapper <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/13/hunter-biden-laptop-claims-russian-disinfo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Washington Post&#8217;s Fact Checker</a>. “All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation. Politico deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear in paragraph five.”
The <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">letter from the 51 former intelligence officials</a> came out in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, warning that reporting about the laptop&#8217;s alleged contents &#8220;has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.&#8221;
Although the signees stressed they did not know if emails being reported at the time were genuine, and they insisted they had no evidence of Russian involvement, POLITICO, which first reported the letter, went further than what the letter said by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publishing a headline</a> that said the former intelligence officials were claiming the story was &#8220;Russian disinfo.&#8221;
Then-candidate Joe Biden, Hunter&#8217;s father, used the letter to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-gop-demand-records-from-ex-intel-officials-about-hunter-biden-laptop-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cast doubt on the laptop story</a> during one of his debates with then-President Donald Trump. &#8220;There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-biden-says-hunter-biden-laptop-story-is-russian-plan-despite-lack-of-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said during the debate</a>.
In an October 2020 interview with CNN, Clapper made comments that hewed more closely to POLITICO&#8217;s headline than the letter itself. &#8220;To me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work,&#8221; he said.
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“To me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says as authorities are investigating if recently published emails are tied to a Russian disinformation effort targeting Biden. <a href="https://t.co/shyMNnJ7Yr">https://t.co/shyMNnJ7Yr</a> <a href="https://t.co/GFSeIWXeY4">pic.twitter.com/GFSeIWXeY4</a>
&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1317307227963678721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Clapper&#8217;s level of candidness became a subject of intense scrutiny roughly a decade ago during his service as director of national intelligence. Clapper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRhjgynfhag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified to Congress</a> that the National Security Agency did not &#8220;wittingly&#8221; collect data on millions of Americans. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amid revelations</a> that the NSA was conducting bulk collection of U.S. caller data, Clapper conceded his statement was <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/02/198118060/cl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;clearly erroneous</a>.&#8221; He further claimed <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/intel-chief-clapper-gave-least-untruthful-answer-u-164742798.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to NBC News</a> that he had been responding to a senator&#8217;s question &#8220;in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner.&#8221;
The Washington Post indicated that it reached out to Clapper after House Republicans, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), sent Clapper and 11 other signers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-puts-a-dozen-intel-veterans-on-notice-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requests for documents and testimony</a> regarding the Hunter Biden laptop letter — a development first reported by The Daily Wire.
“No one who has spent time in Washington should be surprised that journalists and politicians willfully or unintentionally misconstrue oral or written statements,” former State Department official Thomas Fingar, another signer of the letter who was contacted by House Republicans, told The Washington Post. “The statement we signed was carefully written to minimize the likelihood that what was said would be misconstrued, and to provide a clear written record that could be used to identify and disprove distortions.”
The new report offered other tidbits of information, including that Clapper claimed he was unaware of how Biden described the letter during the presidential debate. The Washington Post also reported that its Fact Checker learned that former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who had been a top candidate for CIA director in the Biden administration, organized the letter.
The laptop, which allegedly was abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop before the FBI obtained it, contains details about Hunter Biden&#8217;s personal life and financial affairs. In the spring of 2022, the repairman who obtained the laptop, John Paul Mac Isaac, sued POLITICO and others for defamation, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/repairman-who-revealed-hunter-biden-laptop-sues-schiff-cnn-politico-beast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing them of falsely asserting</a> that he spread Russian disinformation. The Daily Beast, one of the new outlets named in the lawsuit, later <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/daily-beast-apologizes-john-paul-mac-isaac-hunter-biden-laptop?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued an apology</a> for reporting that the laptop was &#8220;stolen.&#8221;
POLITICO defended its reporting about the letter.
“The article fairly and accurately reported on — and summarized — the intelligence officials’ letter,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;More specifically, the headline is a fair summary of their allegations, the subhead offers additional context, and the first paragraph of the article hyperlinks to the letter itself, allowing readers to draw their own conclusion.&#8221;
Since the laptop story emerged more than two years ago, many of its contents have been <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">analyzed and shown to be authentic</a>. Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers recently began to send letters to state and federal officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-demands-criminal-investigation-into-several-figures-after-admitting-infamous-laptop-is-his" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanding investigations into individuals</a> involved in sharing the contents of the laptop, which made their way to the media. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, later insisted the letters <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/hunter-bidens-lawyer-says-letters-dont-mean-laptop-is-his/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">do not &#8220;confirm&#8221;</a> the laptop was his client&#8217;s device.
Douglas Wise, a former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intel-veteran-knew-hunter-biden-laptop-had-to-be-real-before-signing-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divulged last month</a> that he and the other signees surmised the contents of the laptop were genuine at the time the letter came out. &#8220;All of us figured that a significant portion of that content had to be real to make any Russian disinformation credible,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a_TWT&amp;dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fworld%2Fhunter-biden-laptop-files-had-to-be-real-intelligence-chief%2Fnews-story%2F2173db346096e625f538064772424775&amp;memtype=anonymous&amp;mode=premium&amp;v21=dynamic-groupb-control-noscore&amp;V21spcbehaviour=append" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Australian</a>.
Hunter Biden is under investigation by federal prosecutors, including over his foreign business dealings and tax affairs, though the existence of that years-long inquiry was not <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/hunter-biden-under-federal-investigation/2020/12/09/3b7361be-3a64-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed to the public</a> until after the 2020 election. Hunter Biden has said he expects to be <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/big-footing-house-investigation-into-hunter-biden-could-hit-firewall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cleared of wrongdoing</a>.

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