MixCollage-25-Mar-2025-03-51-PM-3326

This May Be The Dumbest Hate Crime Hoax Yet

Bubba Wallace

Hoax

Jussie Smollett

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Pennsylvania

Race

White Supremacy

Law enforcement officials in Pennsylvania arrested an employee of Allentown City after they say that she staged a hate crime hoax.
The Allentown Police Department alleges that LaTarsha Brown contacted the department on January 10, 2025, just after 7:30 a.m. to report that she had found what she claimed was &#8220;a noose on her desk upon arriving at work,&#8221; police say.
Numerous law enforcement entities quickly became engaged in the criminal investigation, including the FBI, the Pennsylvania State Police, and the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.
Police used building video surveillance and access control records to whittle down the list of potential suspects who were present on the third floor of the building where her desk was located between the time she left for work the previous day and the morning that she called police.
&#8220;Those employees were interviewed, and each was asked if they would provide a buccal swab for DNA testing if needed. Every city employee agreed, except for Ms. Brown,&#8221; police said in a statement. &#8220;Initially cooperative, Ms. Brown later requested that the investigation be discontinued.&#8221;
Officials said that the Forensic DNA Division of the Pennsylvania State Police issued a written report on March 10 indicating that Brown&#8217;s DNA &#8220;matched the DNA profile obtained from the swabs of both the outer surface and the inner knotted portion of the noose after taken apart.&#8221;
&#8220;No other person&#8217;s DNA profiles was found on the evidentiary items involved in this investigation,&#8221; police said.
Brown was subsequently charged by the Allentown Police Department on two criminal charges, including Tampering With Or Fabricating Physical Evidence (a misdemeanor of the second degree) and False Reports To Law Enforcement Authorities (a misdemeanor of the third degree).
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Allentown city hall employee charged with planting noose on her own desk in January. LaTarsha Brown charged with fabricating physical evidence &amp; false report to law enforcement. Allentown Police say Brown asked “the investigation be discontinued” after city employees on her… <a href="https://t.co/FLPToNmh7x">pic.twitter.com/FLPToNmh7x</a>
— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeleyFox29/status/1904213825064468907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>

Allentown Police Department

Pennsylvania Police Arrest Woman For Alleged Hate Crime Hoax Involving ‘Noose’

Crime

Hate Crime

U.S.

One of the easiest ways to tell you&#8217;re dealing with an honest person is seeing how they react when some of their most basic, fundamental assumptions are proven to be completely wrong. A few weeks ago, for example, we talked about how some Flat-Earthers responded when they went on a trip to Antarctica that debunked their entire belief system. They sat there and watched 24 hours of sunlight, and they realized that the Earth has to be rotating in space. And to their credit, a few of these Flat-Earthers admitted their mistake, on-camera. They said that, from that moment forward, they would be whatever the opposite of a Flat-Earther is. Sphere-earthers, I guess.
On the other hand, malevolent liars will never admit that they&#8217;re wrong. Even when they&#8217;re confronted with the reality of the situation — which is that everything they&#8217;ve been saying for years was actually wrong — they&#8217;ll find some way to deny it. They&#8217;ll absolve themselves of any responsibility for their deception. And if they can, they&#8217;ll blame you for challenging them. These are people who are not interested in the truth. They have no integrity whatsoever. And therefore they have no business being in any position of power or authority. Trustworthy leaders will admit their mistakes. Corrupt and incompetent leaders will obfuscate, deny, and double down.
With that distinction in mind, recent events have made it abundantly clear that our neighbors to the north in Canada are ruled by the latter group of people. These are people who have no interest in the truth. They are driven entirely by an ideology that, it just so happens, is explicitly anti-Christian and anti-American. And as I&#8217;ll explain in a moment, that has significant implications for the United States, as Canada becomes increasingly hostile towards our country.
But before I get into those implications, I need to explain what exactly the Canadian government has just done. As you may remember, for several years, Canada&#8217;s government, along with the country&#8217;s state media, has been advancing an extraordinary claim as if it&#8217;s the truth. They&#8217;ve said, again and again, that unmarked mass graves had been found at Canada&#8217;s &#8220;residential schools&#8221; — which were boarding schools for Indian children that existed for around 100 years, peaking in the early 20th century. And the discovery of these unmarked mass graves was significant, Canadians were told, because Christian churches were running these residential schools.
In other words, for years, the dominant narrative in Canada has been that Christian schools were so horrific that Indian children died all the time, and they were just tossed in unmarked graves when they expired. Therefore, Canadians were told that Canada is a genocidal state, and Christianity is bad. So predictably, dozens of Christian churches burned. And in response, the country&#8217;s outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said the arson was &#8220;understandable.&#8221; They only made one arrest in the wake of those arson attacks on churches, by the way — some of which were within a few miles of the U.S. border. Canadians, for the most part, stopped celebrating their independence day, out of shame over this story. Canadian secondary schools put images like this one up on the wall:
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As you can see, it tells students that nearly 2,000 &#8220;unmarked graves&#8221; have been found. This has been an all-out, all-encompassing narrative in Canada. But to be clear, this narrative about the residential schools was not simply pushed by Canadian state media. In fact, the narrative actually had its origins in U.S.media — including in outlets that, we now know, were taking money from the Biden administration.
The New York Times, for instance, was one of the <a href="https://quillette.com/blog/2024/09/20/when-will-the-new-york-times-correct-its-flawed-reporting-on-canadas-unmarked-graves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first outlets</a> to report back in 2021 that <a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-the-worlds-media-got-it-wrong-on-residential-school-graves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;unmarked graves&#8221;</a> had been discovered in Canada. They did a whole series of reports on the topic over the summer, all of which were premised on the idea that &#8220;ground-penetrating radar&#8221; had discovered evidence of grave sites. 
Then &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; joined in, with reports like this one. Watch:
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So Anderson Cooper is very concerned about the hundreds of unmarked graves that have supposedly been discovered. He specifically mentioned the hundreds of graves that were allegedly discovered at a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. And Canada&#8217;s state media said much the same thing. The CBC for example <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tk-eml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>: &#8220;Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk&#8217;emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said Thursday.&#8221;
When you see television segments and news articles like this, you might assume — naturally — that some amount of vetting has been done to ensure that these claims are at least potentially accurate. These are obviously incendiary claims that are being made, so presumably, you might think that someone would have looked into them before publishing. But that was never true in this case. More than three years later, not a single body has been found in an unmarked grave at any residential school in Canada. And they certainly haven&#8217;t been uncovered in Kamloops. It turns out that, in fact, the alleged &#8220;unmarked grave site&#8221; in Kamloops was, in reality, a 2,000-foot long, 3-foot deep trench that was established in 1924 as a septic field to store sewage from the school. As the Dorchester Review <a href="https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/the-kamloops-discovery-a-fact-check-two-years-later?srsltid=AfmBOopXCdjxqY3JXETULV7I9BJZfAioMCrMF0Bv2anSJXCnX9tSnsUe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, &#8220;Ground penetrating radar cannot distinguish between a trench lined with clay tiles and a putative child’s grave.&#8221;
This is the kind of information that, if you&#8217;re dealing with honest people, would lead to mass resignations and terminations, for starters. Obviously, no one with any self-respect in the Canadian media or in the Canadian government should keep their job after spreading an anti-Christian lie that caused dozens of churches to go up in flames. But instead of admitting they were wrong, Canada&#8217;s government is of course taking the dishonorable approach. They&#8217;re slowly slinking away like the cowards they are.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1545-the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-4-years-of-searching-and-0-bodies-found-canada-cuts-funds-on-search-for-unmarked-mass-graves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that: 
<blockquote>Canada is pulling funds from groups still searching for alleged bodies buried at Indigenous residential schools funded by Catholics and other Christians. An organization and a committee of experts formed to search for the elusive remains have both lost funding in the past month, following four years of searches that have found zero remains.</blockquote>
We&#8217;re talking about organizations that have received millions of dollars from Canada&#8217;s massive, 300 million-dollar &#8220;Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund.&#8221; These nonprofits have fancy names like &#8220;Survivors&#8217; Secretariat&#8221; and the &#8220;National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.&#8221; And now, after collecting millions of dollars in taxpayer money, they&#8217;re finally getting cut off, because it turns out that the entire animating idea behind their &#8220;nonprofit&#8221; was in fact a scam. The Canadian government is now rolling back its financial investments in this deranged and destructive lie. For all intents and purposes, the residential schools hoax is finally dead.
But that does not mean that the Canadian government is admitting, outright, that it was wrong. That would take an ounce of integrity that they simply do not have. So instead, both political parties in Canada are now rallying around the idea that no one should be able to question the narrative that they&#8217;re now retreating from. In other words, Canada has now entered a kind of reality distortion field, where everyone knows the government was wrong for the last several years, but no one can admit it.
This is footage from just a couple of days ago. It aired on CBC. Watch:
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Those were conservative politicians in that clip. That&#8217;s Canada&#8217;s conservative party — supposedly the opposition to the liberals. They&#8217;re telling this politician to retract her factually accurate statement about unmarked gravesites in Canada. No one in that clip actually refutes anything she said. Instead, they just tell her that it&#8217;s inappropriate to state the truth about these unmarked graves, because it contradicts a broader narrative they want to establish.
As tempting as it may be to think that nothing in Canada affects us here in the United States, the truth is that we can&#8217;t ignore what&#8217;s happening there. And that&#8217;s not just because of the cruelty that&#8217;s been inflicted on Christian Canadians in recent years. That&#8217;s because, at the same moment that Canada is uniting behind malicious, anti-Christian defamation, the country&#8217;s leaders are desperately seeking to expand their power globally.
In particular, some of Canada&#8217;s most prominent politicians — like Chrystia Freeland, who could be the country&#8217;s next prime minister — are openly suggesting that Canada should join a nuclear alliance to handle the &#8220;threat&#8221; that, in her view, is posed by the United States. Watch:
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This is the same woman who gleefully froze truckers&#8217; bank accounts when they committed the crime of peacefully protesting her government&#8217;s unlawful COVID mandates. She cheered as journalists were arrested and elderly women were trampled with horses in Ottawa&#8217;s downtown core, as a result of her declaration of martial law. She was one of the leading proponents of the mass-graves hoax. And she&#8217;s never apologized for any of it. Instead, now she wants Canada to join a hostile military alliance with foreign powers, while she&#8217;s contemplating the use of nuclear weapons against the United States. And at the moment, it&#8217;s not a stretch to say that she could replace Justin Trudeau as the leader of Canada&#8217;s liberal party — a party that, as we just saw, isn&#8217;t much different from the conservatives.
What this means is that, while the conclusion of the mass-graves hoax was anticlimactic at best, Canadian leaders actually see it as a springboard for more authoritarian crackdowns and more overt anti-Christian, anti-American hostility. Whatever credibility Canada had as a staunch American ally, or a legitimately Christian nation, is now completely gone. Canadian leaders would rather lie than admit the truth that everyone can clearly see. No country can survive for long when it&#8217;s committed, to such a great extent, to the denial of reality. And though they don&#8217;t seem interested in admitting it, that is the commitment Canadian politicians have now made.

Liberal Party Of Canada Leadership Debate

The ‘Mass Graves’ Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable

The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable

60 Minutes

Canada

Christians

Conservatives

indigenous

Justin Trudeau

Leftists

Liberals

Parliament

The White House is calling out what it says is &#8220;another hoax&#8221; after the media and at least one Democrat in Congress perpetuated allegations that the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was releasing classified information.
It started on Friday with the left-leaning HuffPost <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> that DOGE, which is led by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, was posting to its new website classified information about the size and staff at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
An unnamed Defense Intelligence Agency employee claimed DOGE posted &#8220;secret&#8221; data, resulting in people &#8220;scrambling to check if their info has been accessed.&#8221; Anonymous Senate aides claimed NRO&#8217;s headcount and budget were classified over concerns about foreign adversaries taking advantage of it.
Upon initial publication, HuffPo&#8217;s report quoted an NRO spokesperson deferring questions about the data to DOGE. HuffPo&#8217;s story also said the White House did not immediately return a request for comment. It was updated later, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250214193329/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">after publication</a>, with a White House denial.
Other news outlets picked up on the report. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-website-worries-intelligence-officials-by-posting-classified-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Beast</a> re-aggregated it. ABC News also pursued the story, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/agency-data-shared-doge-online-sparks-concern-intelligence/story?id=118858837" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> its own intelligence community sources who asserted that what DOGE did likely represented a significant breach. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) also pushed the notion.
&#8220;Yesterday, the DOGE guys post classified information on their website, and they had to realize, oh, we didn&#8217;t realize that agency was a classified agency. You shouldn&#8217;t let people run rampage through offices that have classified information,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1891156990568640556" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;
But, as former House investigator and journalist Jerry Dunleavy <a href="https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1890803265643639277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> out in a series of posts on X, the NRO headcount information is publicly available on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) <a href="https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/ibmcognos/bi/v1/disp?b_action=powerPlayService&amp;m_encoding=UTF-8&amp;BZ=1AAABnsT72MN42oVOsW6DQAz9mTNph0Y_wyVhYIDjUBiANLBXlFzSqsBFcB3y9xUwpFWGvidL9vN7lp2yWJdVcVRpHIzWDDqNn4DocyNI4jZU6PncQ0%7EtfIHRZiO5UKREtAWiZ2fKqvAo94ew2gdASWN6q3sLlJxNe9IDiAg87OtOgxuvDnXzVV%7E0_Ka6a2tune7tCkQMlFyXzV%7E73QWEL0Aov4dhmTLT248p68SlXMsiz5Ws0iLPw0wF%7E_Wc6DU4IzKOiJwjYwyZQEbIJjIWXnTf3IAQ6ASEYdsC_pkZ7eMpQJ8B7YBcBNIc6B3IXwR_F9gMIHey%7EwKfOXfLO3MtTyz4AbZLbJc%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> and DOGE says on its site that workforce data comes from OPM.
&#8220;DOGE even says under “Sources” that it’s pulling its data from OPM’s publicly available data set as of March 2024,&#8221; he said. &#8220;OPM posted then NRO has 1,097 employees. DOGE posts now NRO has 1,097 employees. So… is the claim here that OPM has been publicly posting classified info for years?&#8221;
An email from White House Principal Deputy Communications Director Alex Pfeiffer said the &#8220;controversy&#8221; is really just DOGE reformatting data that is already publicly available and denying that there was a &#8220;breach&#8221; of sensitive information.
“DOGE is sharing OPM data from under the Biden administration,&#8221; Pfeiffer said in a statement. &#8220;The headcount for this agency is publicly available on OPM’s website. These attacks are just another hoax meant to undermine the great work the Trump Administration is doing.&#8221;

Elon Musk

‘Another Hoax’: White House Refutes Claims DOGE Released Classified Data

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Huffington Post

Media

Tim Kaine

White House

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jussie-smollett">Jussie Smollett</a> said he’s spent $3 million appealing his conviction following a purported <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hate-crime">hate crime</a> attack he was ruled to have staged himself.
“I want to have all of these things in my life, and I don’t want to have a felony on my record for something that I didn’t do,” Smollett said during an interview with <a href="https://youtu.be/OIl0ndQTy3M">Entertainment Tonight</a>. “That’s what we’re fighting for. I know that on the surface it probably seems like why doesn’t he just serve the time, why doesn’t he just let this go. It would be easier if I had in fact done this to say that I did it. I wouldn’t have spent almost $3 million of my own money. I would not have had a trial.”
The actor told police on January 29, 2019, that he was attacked by two men in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a> at 2 a.m. who he claimed made racist and homophobic slurs, wrapped a rope around his neck, poured an “unknown substance” on him, and yelled that this is “MAGA country.” It was later found that Smollett had hired two Nigerian brothers to help him stage the attack. 
The “Empire” star was convicted on five counts of disorderly conduct in 2021 and spent just six days in jail after appealing his 150 day sentence. Smollett was charged with 16 counts of lying to police, but those charges were dropped. 
Smollett has insisted upon his innocence all along. 
“As an entertainer, as a businessman, I probably should [stop fighting the charges],” Smollett told ET.
“But as a human being and as a man, as a black man and as an openly gay black man, I have a problem with letting them win on something they shouldn’t be able to,” the actor continued. “I’m a grown man and something happened. I can’t tell exactly what did happen, but I can tell you what did not happen. That’s what I have to sit on. No matter how much people are yelling in my face, saying ‘You’re a liar, you’re a liar.’ No, I’m not. No, I’m not. I don’t want them to believe that, but if that is what they believe, that’s on you.”
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He argued that while “fighting the very things that are untrue,” he got tripped up by some truths which he claims were used “to prove things that were not true.”
“So there were those moments where I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, my life is kind of — oh, well, I didn’t do that.’ And they’re like, ‘But you did this.’ And I’m like ‘Ah, I did do that. I did buy that.’ And there are things like that that I’ve had to talk to my family about, that I’ve had to talk to friends about,” he said. “I’m OK with accepting responsibility for things that I’ve actually done. I’m just not OK with accepting responsibility for things that I did not do.”
Smollett also insists he’s being honest because he claims his story never changed, but he says other stories relating to the incident did. 
“I’ve stood by, not my truth but the truth for the entire time, almost six years,” he said. “I haven’t switched my story up. I haven’t changed anything that I ever said. I stand by every single thing that I’ve ever said. Everyone else in the situation, every single person, has changed their story numerous times,” Smollett told the outlet.

Jussie Smollett Says He Spent $3M Appealing Hoax Case, Maintains His Original Story

Celebrities

Chicago

Illinois

When the demand for racism far exceeds the supply, the inevitable result is that you get race hoaxes. And there are now so many race hoaxes in this country that we have entire genres of race hoaxes to catalog. There&#8217;s the Jussie Smollet-style hoax, where you fake a racist attack. There&#8217;s the graffiti-style race hoax, where you spray-paint something racist on a wall or a car or something like that. And of course there&#8217;s the restaurant-receipt-style race hoax, where someone leaves a racist message on a receipt.
One of the more prominent racist receipt hoaxes is the one that happened at the Saltgrass steakhouse a few years back, when a customer supposedly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/waiter-who-faked-racist-receipt-the-latest-to-use-shocking-claims-to-get-facebook-love" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> the words, &#8220;We don&#8217;t tip terrorists&#8221; on his <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-waiter-faked-we-dont-tip-terrorist-note-on-receipt-restaurant-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">receipt</a>, because the waiter looked like he was from the Middle East or something. The waiter put out a social media post saying the receipt is proof that racism is alive and well. &#8220;This racism and this hatred still exists,&#8221; he posted on Instagram. The restaurant immediately announced it was banning the customer for life because the waiter obviously wouldn&#8217;t lie about something like that. Only for the waiter to eventually admit what every sane person already knew, which is that he <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-waiter-faked-we-dont-tip-terrorist-note-on-receipt-restaurant-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fabricated</a> the whole thing.
These race hoaxes are all so predictable that you&#8217;d be forgiven for believing that innovation is truly dead in the race hoax industry. Race hoaxes have become a lot like iPhones. There&#8217;s no real variation from year to year. You just keep getting the same thing over and over again. And that&#8217;s true, for the most part. 
There was one very notable recent exception to this general rule, however, and it comes to us from Charles County, Maryland. For the first time in recorded history, we have a twist on the restaurant receipt race hoax.
The spin is that, in this case, the receipt isn&#8217;t actually being faked by anyone. It is a 100% accurate receipt, according to all parties involved. So in that sense, this is something of an upgrade over the typical genre standbys that we&#8217;re all used to. Unfortunately, in every other respect this is one of the dumbest race hoaxes to ever occur in this country. It&#8217;s so extraordinarily low-IQ and insulting to the intelligence of everyone involved that it defies comprehension as to why a single news station, anywhere, would cover this complete non-story, except maybe to laugh at it. But some news outlets — both national and local — did cover the story with a straight face. Here&#8217;s one of those stations:
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&#8220;Racism is still alive,&#8221; he says, pretending to be upset. It&#8217;s what the Saltgrass waiter said a couple of years ago, too. Of course the irony is that, if racism were still alive as they say, they wouldn’t need to make it up. We’re supposed to think that these hoaxers are really angry that racism is still alive, but of course the opposite is true. They want racism to exist so badly that they&#8217;re willing to invent it. They hope that their race hoax will follow the familiar pattern: the social media outrage, followed by the termination of the allegedly offending party, followed by a big payout, followed by them taking their place alongside the great civil rights heroes of all time — men like George Floyd and Michael Brown.
And they&#8217;re not quite sure how to react when that pattern doesn&#8217;t play out. Notice in that video that the man assumes the teenage employee will be fired, even though Chick-fil-A has already said he won&#8217;t be. He says, well it&#8217;s sad he might have to lose his job, but he needs to learn the lesson. It&#8217;s as if he can&#8217;t process the fact that he&#8217;s being told that no, the Chick-fil-A employee didn&#8217;t actually suffer any kind of harm.
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Nevertheless, the man says he&#8217;s thinking about filing a federal lawsuit against Chick-fil-A because that receipt was just &#8220;devastating&#8221; for him. He&#8217;s never going back to that Chick-fil-A ever again because apparently the equivalent of the KKK has taken it over. Whenever they see a black customer they just write &#8220;monkey&#8221; on the receipt because that&#8217;s how racist they are at this particular Chick-fil-A.
This is the narrative that the media is reporting, without any pushback whatsoever, even though it&#8217;s extremely obvious that this was a misunderstanding on the part of the employee. The guy&#8217;s name is &#8220;Marquise,&#8221; which does sound very close to &#8220;monkeys,&#8221; depending on how you say it. If his name was Bob or Larry or something, then he might have more of a case. Then you could maybe convince someone that this was a malicious attempt to communicate some racist message to this customer, for some reason. But as it stands, it&#8217;s pretty clear what happened. He probably either said &#8220;Marquise&#8221; or &#8220;monkeys&#8221; in the drive-thru lane and either way, the employee thought he heard &#8220;monkeys.&#8221;
We can be pretty sure of that because the alternative makes no sense whatsoever. This Chick-fil-A is in Maryland. This drive-thru employee probably serves dozens of black customers a day. Does he call them all racial slurs or did he just randomly select this guy for no particular reason? Did he wake up and decide, you know what, I&#8217;m going to call a customer a monkey today. And I&#8217;m going to put it in writing. Is there a single person who actually believes that&#8217;s a plausible scenario?
And yet the media uncritically reports on the customer&#8217;s &#8220;trauma.&#8221; Then he makes his pitch for a lawsuit, which is really a shakedown. He&#8217;s essentially telling Chick-fil-A to pay up, or he&#8217;s going to smear them as much as possible. If you watch the video this guy recorded in the Chick-fil-A — which I won&#8217;t play because it&#8217;s painful to listen to — he immediately demands that the employee lose his job. And then he promises to make the clip go &#8220;viral.&#8221; He went directly into making threats as soon as he saw an opportunity.
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This is inexcusable behavior obviously, but it&#8217;s also predictable. This is the kind of response that a lot of people will have when everyone in the media is telling them, at every opportunity, that they&#8217;re a victim because of their skin color. It&#8217;s what happens when some people are bombarded with lies about how oppressed they are. And that&#8217;s happening constantly, right out in the open.
The other day, for example, the actor and singer Tyrese had a conversation with the race hustling ambulance chaser Ben Crump. And Tyrese made a claim that&#8217;s clearly false, and also clearly designed to stoke as much racial animosity and resentment as possible. And of course Ben Crump, the alleged lawyer, agreed with it. Watch:
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Tyrese calls out Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for signing a hate crime bill to protect Asians but skipping over Black and Latino people who are being killed. <a href="https://t.co/v4Ltb9LQEW">pic.twitter.com/v4Ltb9LQEW</a>
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Tyrese claims, bizarrely, that there are no hate crime laws protecting black and brown people. Never mind that every hate crime law protects those groups and most of them were written specifically to protect those groups. Just last week Kamala was once again promoting the &#8220;anti-lynching&#8221; act that the Biden Admin signed into law a couple of years ago. That was yet another hate crime bill written specifically to protect black people from a form of violence that none of them have suffered in at least forty years. Also, as I covered last week, lynching is already illegal about three times over. This made it illegal a fourth time.
As to the specific legislation that Tyrese is talking about, he&#8217;s wrong about that, too. There was no bill that only punishes anti-Asian hate crimes. The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which is apparently what he&#8217;s referring to, applied to all forms of &#8220;hate crime.&#8221; It just made it easier to report and catalog these incidents. A lot of people pointed this out online, so it&#8217;s not a particularly convincing lie, either.
And as I&#8217;ve discussed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-case-that-proves-why-hate-crime-statistics-are-bogus">before</a>, this is all a moot point anyway because hate crimes shouldn&#8217;t be an actual category of crime. For one thing, a lot of crimes committed against other people typically involve some form of hatred. So we don&#8217;t need a special category for certain kinds of hatred. For another thing, hate crimes aren&#8217;t prosecuted or reported with any kind of consistency.
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Those are legitimate complaints you can make about hate crimes legislation. But the idea that they don&#8217;t protect black and brown people is complete nonsense. In the Ahmaud Arbery case, after the state secured the murder convictions, the feds went back and prosecuted those defendants for hate crimes because of racist text messages they had sent — before the murder, about someone other than Ahmaud Arbery. It was an entirely separate prosecution. They got guilty pleas and additional life sentences because of it. But apparently those hate crimes laws don&#8217;t exist, according to Tyrese and Ben Crump.
This is the same kind of race hustling that Barack Obama specialized in, but these people aren&#8217;t anywhere near as good at it. Obama could look the camera in the eye and wag his finger and say whatever he wanted. He could convince a lot of people that hate crimes laws only protect white people if he wanted to. But Tyrese and Ben Crump aren&#8217;t so gifted. They&#8217;re not anywhere near as coherent. Their pandering is too obvious.
In fact, right now there aren&#8217;t many prominent members of the Democrat Party who are capable of pulling off the Obama-style hustle. Kamala Harris certainly isn&#8217;t capable of it. Even in scripted moments — pretty much the only moments that her handlers will allow her to have — she can&#8217;t do it. Take a look at these two clips from Kamala Harris events yesterday. One&#8217;s in Detroit and the other&#8217;s in Pennsylvania. They&#8217;re just a few hours apart. See if you notice any differences:
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So in the Detroit speech, she&#8217;s once again trying to sound urban but instead ends up sounding like Foghorn Leghorn. She’s trying to connect with black voters by changing her accent and tone, but, ironically, winds up sounding something like a plantation owner in the Antebellum south. Meanwhile in the Pennsylvania clip she sounds completely different. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Bill Clinton did this kind of thing all the time, but they at least waited a few hours before dropping their fake accents. They didn&#8217;t leave the &#8220;urban environment&#8221; and immediately start speaking normally again. So this may be the single worst attempt at &#8220;code switching,&#8221; or whatever you want to call it, that&#8217;s ever been attempted. But Kamala attempted it anyway. Whatever this is — whether it&#8217;s desperation or incompetence or both — it&#8217;s a clear sign that Democrats aren&#8217;t going to change their tactics just because they don&#8217;t have the talent to pull it off. They still have no problem being completely shameless in their attempts to divide this country along racial lines.
So the media will continue to tell us that innocuous restaurant receipts are racist. Ben Crump will nod along as an actor lies about hate crimes. And Kamala Harris will do everything she can to prevent people from realizing she grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Montreal. Put it all together, and it&#8217;s clear that the Left&#8217;s racial pandering is now so overt that it manages to insult the intelligence of the people they&#8217;re pandering to. This is inevitably what happens when the demand for racism outstrips the supply — you get hoax after hoax after hoax. Eventually, the hoaxes start looking a bit too familiar and too obvious. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re seeing now. The fraud is clearer than it ever was. And if Kamala Harris made anything clear yesterday, it&#8217;s that she&#8217;s incapable of hiding it.

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The Illinois Supreme Court will hear Jussie Smollett’s appeal after an appeals court in December upheld his conviction for disorderly conduct.
The conviction stems from Smollett’s 2019 claim that he was the victim of a hate crime – an allegation that proved to be false. The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday released <a href="https://ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resources/resources/1ddf8abe-5325-4153-8797-7f4d5b9958d2/March%2027,%202024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a list</a> of cases that it would allow to appeal, and Smollett’s case is included.
In December, a state appeals court upheld Smollett’s conviction in a 2-1 vote, WLS <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/where-is-jussie-smollett-today-empire-supreme-court-now/14578113/?ex_cid=TA_WLS_TW&amp;taid=660457abf4ed320001808e38&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Smollett then took his appeal to the state Supreme Court. A hearing date for the appeal has not been set.
In January 2019, Smollett claimed he was walking alone at night in Chicago during a polar vortex when two supporters of former 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.
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 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 a sweetheart plea deal made with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.
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A special prosecutor was assigned to review the deal, and ultimately revived six of the original charges against Smollett, who was convicted of the charges in 2021. He spent just six days in jail after he appealed his 150-day sentence.
In March of last year, the brothers who helped Smollett stage the attack <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brothers-who-helped-carry-out-staged-attack-on-jussie-smollett-apologize-in-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized</a> during an appearance on Fox News.
“I just first want to apologize to everyone in the audience, the country, and anyone who might have been affected by this directly. When we were asked to partake in this, we really didn’t foresee the ramifications of what something like this could do to the country,” one of the brothers said. “We allowed our ambition to cloud our judgment.”

Jussie Smollett Granted Chance To Appeal Conviction To Illinois Supreme Court

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> argued on Saturday that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s claims that Trump and his &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; movement <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/19/biden-says-trump-maga-republicans-are-threat-to-democracy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pose a danger</a> to democracy is a new &#8220;hoax&#8221; and that Biden is the &#8220;real threat.&#8221;
At a gala held by the New York Young Republican Club, Trump said Biden&#8217;s line of attack is based on &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; another in a growing list of controversies that date back to his successful 2016 campaign.
&#8220;The radical left Democrats, their fake news allies have unveiled their newest hoax that Donald J. And the Republican Party are a threat to democracy … This is their new line. Here we go again — &#8216;Russia, Russia, Russia,&#8217; &#8216;Mueller, Mueller, Mueller,&#8217; &#8216;Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.&#8217; One hoax after another,&#8221; Trump said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-claims-hes-threat-democracy-hoax-says-biden-real-threat-will-save-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fox News</a>.
Trump called the strategy a &#8220;desperate and shameless attempt to distract from the monstrous abuses of power the Left is committing before your very eyes.&#8221; He also said, &#8220;We call it now the threat-to-democracy hoax, because that&#8217;s what it is.&#8221;
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A little more than a month before the 2024 primary season gets underway, Trump and Biden are locked in a war of words ahead of what could be a 2020 rematch in the general election.
Biden has employed warnings about democracy being at risk as he makes his re-election pitch to voters and donors, hearkening back to the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, and efforts by Trump and his allies to challenge the results of the 2020 election. He has also seized on Trump pledging to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-predicts-biden-wont-be-dems-2024-nominee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a &#8220;dictator&#8221;</a> only on the first day of his second term in order to tackle issues such as border security and drilling for energy.
&#8220;Let me be clear,&#8221; Biden said at a fundraiser in California over the weekend. &#8220;Donald Trump poses many threats to the country, from the right to choose to civil rights to voting rights to America’s standing in the world. But the greatest threat Trump poses is to our democracy, because if we lose that, we lose everything.&#8221;
Trump made the case on Saturday that Biden has it backward.
Biden is the &#8220;real threat to democracy for two simple reasons: he&#8217;s corrupt and incompetent — grossly incompetent,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/RealAmVoice/status/1733702086762660079" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

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Trump Rejects ‘Threat-To-Democracy Hoax,’ Says Biden Poses The ‘Real’ Danger

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The attorney representing Carlee Russell, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/carlee-russell-admits-her-entire-kidnapping-story-was-a-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> this week that her claim that she was kidnapped was a hoax, reportedly told local media that he expects her to be criminally charged in the case.
The 25-year-old nursing student had claimed that she was kidnapped while checking on a toddler on the side of the road in Alabama earlier this month. Her disappearance lasted for 49 hours.
Attorney Emory Anthony met with Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis on Tuesday and <a href="https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/attorney-emory-anthony-representing-carlee-russell-speaks-about-meeting-with-hoover-police/">reportedly</a> told journalists afterward that he expects Russell to be charged in the case.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a great meeting, a short meeting just to try to identify some things about where we go from here. There&#8217;s responsibilities that we need to take care of,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it was a great meeting. And I want to commend the Hoover Police Department and the chief of police for their action and how they handled everything, so, hopefully we can get the to the end game as they say of this particular thing.&#8221;
In the last few days, Russell lost her job, and her boyfriend Thomar Simmons broke up with her after initially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/carlee-russells-bf-urges-public-to-stop-bullying-amid-suspicious-claims-think-about-her-mental-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defending</a> her.
&#8220;Carlee&#8217;s actions created hurt, confusion, and dishonesty,&#8221; Simmons said in a statement. &#8220;I was made aware of the false narrative after coming to the defense of my ex Carlee Russell. Myself and my family&#8217;s nature was to react in love, and genuine concern. We are disgusted from the outcome of this entire situation. I strongly feel exactly like you all&#8230; blindsided with Carlee&#8217;s actions.&#8221;
During the Hoover Police Department&#8217;s last press conference, Derzis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/carlee-russell-admits-her-entire-kidnapping-story-was-a-hoax">said</a> that law enforcement still did not know where Russell was during the 49 hours that she was reported missing, and they did not know her motivation for fabricating the story. He said that law enforcement “pretty much” knew that it was a hoax for the last week.
When asked if the parents were under investigation, Derzis said that “anything’s on the table” because investigators still do not know where she was or if she had any help.
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“This was an elaborate deal,” he said. “I mean, when you talk about calling a 911, and being up on the interstate.”
Derzis said that the statement from Russell will not alter the course of law enforcement’s on-going investigation.

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Carlee Russell’s Attorney Confirms He Expects Her To Be Charged Over Kidnapping Hoax: Report

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Carlee Russell, the 25-year-old nursing student who claimed that she was kidnapped earlier this month while allegedly checking on a toddler on the side of the road in Alabama, admitted to law enforcement that she fabricated her entire story.
Russell attorney Emory Anthony had originally made an appointment for investigators to speak with Russell but, shortly before the interview was set to begin, Anthony provided a statement to law enforcement and asked that authorities read the entire statement at their press conference.
&#8220;There was no kidnapping on Thursday July 13,&#8221; the statement <a href="https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2023/07/24/carlee-russell-confesses-to-fabricating-kidnapping/70459669007/">said</a>. &#8220;My client did not see a baby on the side on the road.&#8221;
&#8220;My client apologizes for her actions to this community, the volunteers who were searching for her, to the Hoover Police Department and other agencies as well, as to her friends and family,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;We ask for your prayers for Carlee, as she addresses her issues and attempts to move forward, understanding that she made a mistake in this matter. Carlee again asks for your forgiveness and prayers.”
Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said that investigators are still going to meet with Anthony because they have more to discuss in the case, including the possibility that criminal charges will be filed with the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
Derzis said that law enforcement does not know where Russell was during the 49 hours that she was reported missing, and they do not know her motivation for fabricating the story. He said that law enforcement “pretty much” knew that it was a hoax for the last week.
When asked if the parents were under investigation, Derzis said that “anything’s on the table” because investigators still do not know where she was or if she had any help.
“This was an elaborate deal,” he said. “I mean, when you talk about calling a 911, and being up on the interstate.”
Derzis said that the statement from Russell will not alter the course of law enforcement’s on-going investigation.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

Carlee Russell Admits Her Entire Kidnapping Story Was A Hoax

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A Houston man who had been reported missing in 2015 but who was never really missing at all has spoken out about his ordeal.
Rudolph “Rudy” Farias was 17 years old when his mother reported him missing in 2015. He actually returned the next day, but for eight years his mother maintained that he was missing and introduced him as her nephew when they were out in public.
Farias, now 25, has spoken out for the first time since he was found sleeping outside of a church, leading to countless news articles about the “missing” man being found after eight years. Farias <a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/rudy-farias-houston-interview-reports-missing-he-was-8-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox 26 Houston that he felt as though he “lived in a prison” during those eight years.
&#8220;I just wanted to be free. I just wanted to live my life,” Farias told the outlet. &#8220;It feels like, I&#8217;m just at peace now. Just feels happy, you know?&#8221;
In public, Farias also told people that he was his mother’s nephew instead of her son.
&#8220;She would manipulate me into saying I would get arrested for speeding ticket,&#8221; he told Fox 26. &#8220;It just felt like brainwashing, honestly.&#8221;
He said that he could leave at any time, but felt manipulated to stay, describing himself as having “Stockholm Syndrome.” He told the outlet that he was forced to hide whenever family or friends came over to his mother’s house and that he thought she was the only person he could trust.
&#8220;I was stuck at home,&#8221; Farias said. &#8220;Somebody would come up, my mom would just tell me to stay in the room, keep the door locked, don&#8217;t let them in [and] don&#8217;t make any sounds.&#8221;
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He said that being hidden meant he had to listen to his family and friends outside.
&#8220;I would just have to listen to my family, be happy and cheerful on the other side of the (expletive) door,&#8221; said Farias. &#8220;I wanted to scream for them, but at the same time I couldn&#8217;t. The only person I could trust was my mom.&#8221;
Farias also alluded to questions about whether his mother sexually abused him during those eight years.
&#8220;She didn&#8217;t force herself on me or anything like that. It would never be anything like that. Just stuff that really made me uncomfortable,&#8221; he told Fox 26.
Last Thursday, Houston police Lt. Christopher Zamora <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-reported-as-missing-for-8-years-was-never-missing-at-all-houston-police-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters that Farias’ mother, Janie Santana, had lied about him being missing.
Zamora said that during the eight years Farias was allegedly missing, police had encountered him, but both he and his mother gave false information about his identity, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/missing-rudy-farias-mother-hid-him-for-8-years/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“During these contacts, fictitious names and date of births were given, misleading the officers,” Zamora told reporters. “In fact, both Janie, Rudy’s mother, and Rudy himself gave fictitious names while interacting with various patrol officers.”
Police have declined to file charges against Santana.

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Disgraced former actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jussie-smollett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jussie Smollett</a> is the focus on an upcoming docuseries, titled &#8220;Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax,” which will drop this month on the Fox Nation channel.
The five part series details the events that led up to Smollett’s call to police about being attacked on the streets of Chicago in January 2019 that later turned out to be a hoax, <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/03/fox-nation-jussie-smollett-anatomy-of-a-hoax-docuseries-1235275869/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> magazine reported.
The series is being billed as providing exclusive interviews with brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, who have yet to speak to the media about their part in Smollett&#8217;s elaborate plan to perpetrate the hate crime hoax, the outlet noted.
&#8220;Describes the intrigue and drama that caused a celebrity to become despised, shocked Chicago and beyond, and left a path of destroyed reputations and careers,&#8221; a description about the docuseires reads on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26934427/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IMDb</a>.
&#8220;The Osundairo brothers will provide all the details related to the false crime,&#8221; it added.
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“‘Anatomy of a Hoax&#8217; takes a deep dive into a scam that reverberated through the worlds of entertainment, pop culture and politics,&#8221; John Finley, the streaming platform&#8217;s executive vice president, shared.
&#8220;We&#8217;re excited for viewers to hear the real stories behind this scandal from the Osundairo brothers for the very first time,&#8221; he added.
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In January 2019, Smollett told police that he was attacked by two men in Chicago at 2 a.m. who he claimed made racist and homophobic slurs, wrapped a rope around his neck, poured an “unknown substance” on him, and yelled that this is “MAGA country,” The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jussie-smollett-ordered-released-from-jail-after-serving-less-than-week-of-5-month-sentence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The two men he claimed attacked him were the Osundairo brothers.
The disgraced actor was later convicted on five felony counts, which included lying to Chicago PD. In December 2021, he was sentenced to 150 days in jail, followed by 30 months probation. He was also ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution and $25,000 in fines, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jussie-smollett-ordered-released-from-jail-after-serving-less-than-week-of-5-month-sentence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He was released from jail in March 2022, pending appeal.
Throughout the entire ordeal and after, Smollett has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-releases-rap-single-asserting-his-innocence-attacking-critics-after-being-released-from-jail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maintained his innocence</a>, going so far as to say that if he &#8220;had done this,&#8221; he&#8217;d &#8220;be a piece of s***,&#8221; as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-if-i-had-done-this-id-be-a-piece-of-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;Anatomy of A Hoax&#8221; hits Fox Nation on March 13.
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