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aid to Ukraine through
December 2024
wartime military, financial and humanitarian:--
 | European countries: $259 billion |
| USA:
$125 billion |
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| European countries: $100 billion |
| USA:
$350 billion |
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| EU bought $12.3 billion worth
of US agricultural exports in the 2023 fiscal
year, making it the fourth-largest export market for US agricultural and
related products behind China, Mexico and Canada, |
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European Union
doesn’t “accept our farm products.” |
| “The European Communities
(forerunner of the EU) were formed in the 1950s as part of a joint
US-Western European plan to stabilize and secure Western Europe. |
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European Union
“was formed in order to screw the United States" |
| The US was generating billions per year in revenue from tariffs on
China before Trump took office; in fact, the US has had tariffs on Chinese
imports since the 1700s. Second, US importers pay these tariffs, not China,
and often pass on some or all of the cost to US consumers. |
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the US took in hundreds of billions of dollars
in tariffs “from China” during his presidency,
then falsely claimed that before his presidency, no other president
took in even “10 cents.” |
US deficit with Canada was
about $72.3 billion.
The deficit is
overwhelmingly caused by the US importing a large
quantity of inexpensive Canadian oil, which
helps keep Americans’ gas prices down. |
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the US is losing $200 billion per year to
Canada; |
| there is no indication that
inflation is “stopping,” slowly or otherwise; Trump is pushing various
policies that many economists describe as inflationary, notably including a
variety of tariffs on imported good |
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“the inflation
is stopping, slowly.” |
| the US ranks well above
average in reading and science and below average, but still far from last,
in math. |
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the US ranks dead last, 40th out of 40
countries, in international education
rankings |
| In the 12-month ending in
September 2024, the CDC
estimates there were 55,126 deaths involving
synthetic opioids including fentanyl. |
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“we lose 300,000 people a year to
fentanyl, not 100 (thousand), not 95
(thousand), not 60 (thousand) like you read…close to 300,000 people, dead.” |
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ISIS “caliphate” was declared fully liberated more
than two years into Trump’s presidency. |
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“got rid of” the ISIS
terror group in just “three weeks” |
of 21,889 pounds of
fentanyl seized by US border authorities in the
2024 fiscal year,
about 0.2% – 43 pounds – was seized near the
Canadian border.
Compared to 21,148 pounds at the Mexican
border, about 96.6%. |
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“A lot of fentanyl
comes through Canada.” |
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Defense Department has
estimated that this equipment had been worth about $7.1 billion – a
chunk of the roughly $18.6 billion worth of equipment provided to
Afghan forces between 2005 and 2021. |
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the US left tens of billions of dollars worth
of military equipment to the Taliban when President
Joe Biden pulled American troops out of Afghanistan in 2021 |
of the federal employees who
did not respond to an
Elon Musk email blast asking them to list accomplishments from the
previous week,
Leaders at multiple federal agencies
told their employees not to respond to the email, and the Trump
administration’s Office of Personnel Management
told agencies that replying was voluntary.
deadline was Monday; the email was sent Saturday. |
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“Usually that means that maybe that person
doesn’t exist, or that person doesn’t want to say they’re working for
another company while being paid by the United States government.” |
Social Security already has a
system in place to stop payments to people listed as being age 115 and
older.
2023: only 44,000 of 18.9 million people age 100 or older were
receiving payments.
There are 86,000 people age 100 or older in the US.
“The 44,000 figure, I’m confident that the vast majority of those are legit
payments. ....., I don’t think these numbers show any evidence of fraud”.
It would be expensive to verify and remove the 18.9 minus 44,000
( those not receiving payments) from the database. |
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“You see people that are 200 years old that are
being sent checks for Social Security." |
Trump’s 13
biggest lies of his first month 2025
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That figure is highly
inflated. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
reports
more than 10.8 million arrests for
illegal crossings from Mexico from January 2021
through December 2024.
79% of illegal immigrants entered
the US before January 2010 and thus have been here for 14+ years. |
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it “was a gross miscarriage of common sense” to
let 21 million enter the U.S. illegally. |
| no evidence to substantiate |
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thwarted a plan to spend $100 million –
in condoms for
Hamas |
| Russia started the war in
Ukraine when it invaded Ukraine in 2022 |
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Blaming
Ukraine for starting the war --
Laughable Kremlin-style propaganda, t |
| not true, Trump
made the same claim in 2018 and on
various other occasions. Dozens of countries, including Canada and
Mexico, also grant automatic citizenship
to people born on their soil. |
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The United States, is the only country
that has birthright citizenship. |
| 140 officers were assaulted on
January 6, and more than 170 people
pleaded guilty to such assaults |
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the people he pardoned “they didn’t assault.”
first responders. “They were treated like the worst criminals in history.
And you know what they were there for? They were protesting the vote because
they knew the election was rigged and they were protesting the vote.”
“but they were very minor incidents.” |
| befuddled experts
explained to anyone who would listen. |
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Trump linked the Los
Angeles wildfires to California’s
decision to use some of its water to protect a fish species in the northern
part of the state – even though the two things have nothing to do with each
other, |
| water wasted for farmers by
releasing it when not needed |
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after ordering the sudden release of billions
of gallons of water from Central Valley reservoirs
for no apparent good reason, Trump declared that some of
this water was heading to Los Angeles – even though it
wasn’t heading to Los Angeles and couldn’t go to Los
Angeles. |
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More than four years after his loss to Joe
Biden, he repeated his “rigged” 2020 election
nonsense
during at least three events on his 2025 inauguration
day alone, then a bunch of times after that. |
| the
opposite of the truth; the idea is
hugely unpopular with the Canadian
public |
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Canadian people “like” his idea of Canada
becoming the 51st US state. |
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it’s false. |
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Canada prohibits
US banks from doing business there. |
deadly January collision
between a military helicopter and a passenger jet.
No evidence any FAA diversity policy had anything to do with it. |
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blamed Biden
administration diversity initiatives at the Federal
Aviation Administration.
A
fictional story about a frantic last-minute Biden push to hire people
with significant disabilities as air traffic
controllers, failing to explain that this
FAA pilot program was actually a years-old initiative launched
during his own administration in 2019. |
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TARRIFFS -
Can Trump replace Income Tax with Tariffs? NO |
thoroughly debunked conspiracy
theory that childhood vaccines cause autism.
The increase in autism diagnoses (to 1 in 36 children by age 8 in
2020) likely has to do with greater awareness of the symptoms and improved
screening practices,
public statistics :-- the known prevalence in 2004 was 1
in 125 children, not “1 in 10,000.” |
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“20 years ago, Autism
in children was 1 in 10,000. NOW IT’S 1 in 34,” |
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China
isn’t operating the Panama Canal;
Panama is, |
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“Above all, China
is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn’t
give it to China, we gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.” |
Not even close to correct –
exit polls
show he lost the youth vote to then-Vice President Kamala
Harris. |
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won the youth vote “by 36 points.” |
Trump’s Lies as of Feb 2025
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CBS News and “60 Minutes” “replaced” former Vice President Kamala Harris’
interview answers “with completely different, and far better, answers, taken
from another part of the interview.” |
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“I changed the Obama policy (on hiring
air traffic controllers) ... And then
Biden came in and he changed it.” |
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The U.S. House Select Committee that
investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they
collected over two years.” |
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“With your Democrat governor, you have some of the highest
electricity prices and highest energy costs.
It’s just about at the top in Wisconsin.”
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“As California attorney general, (Kamala Harris) redefined
child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly
weapon, and rape of an unconscious person as a totally nonviolent crime.”
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"Right to Try" experimental drug program saved "thousands and thousands of
lives." |
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In Lancaster, Pa., “We caught them with 2,600 votes.
We caught them cold, 2,600 votes. ... And every vote was written by the same
person." |
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Vice President Kamala Harris “wants struggling seniors
to pay more Social Security taxes while she
gives Medicare and Social
Security to illegals.” |
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Vice President Kamala Harris' plan “will raise
taxes for the typical American family by an estimated $3,000."
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Kamala Harris "let in the 13,099 convicted murderers
and opposes all efforts to find them and to remove them." |
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Vice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.” |
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was calling President Joe
Biden after Hurricane Helene but "hasn't been able to get him.”
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When Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our
children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter."
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“Kamala Harris has promised amnesty for the 10 million
illegals she allowed in as border czar, making them eligible for
Social Security. Studies warn this will lead to
cuts in your Social Security benefits." |
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Kamala Harris “wants to forcibly compel doctors and nurses against their
will to give chemical castration drugs
to young children.” |
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“Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.”
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California law lets you “rob a store as
long as it’s not more than $950” and “not get charged.” Kamala Harris “did
that.” |
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“Vice President, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to cut, as you
know, Medicare by $273 billion. She cast
a vote to cut Medicare.” |
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During theDuring the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov.
Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National
Guard to save Minneapolis.” 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s
murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the
National Guard to save
Minneapolis.” |
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Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”
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Lower insulin prices were the work of
the Trump administration, not “Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with
it.” |
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Joe Biden’s immigration order limiting
asylum is “pro-child trafficking.” |
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Crime statistics “no longer include data
from 30% of the country including the biggest and most violent cities.”
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false in two ways. FEMA
does
have money for the immediate responses to Hurricane
Helene and Hurricane Milton, It
has $11 billion
FEMA
did not give all of its disaster relief money to undocumented people;
rather, as mandated by Congress, FEMA also administers an entirely separate
pool of money for sheltering migrants. |
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“FEMA has no money. You know where they gave the
money? To illegal immigrants" |
| FEMA has
more than 20,000
employees. |
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“FEMA has no workers, they have no nothing.” |
| no evidence. Trump’s own
presidential campaign could not provide a single example of any of this ever
happening. |
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“Your child go goes to school, and they take
your child. It was a ‘he.’ And comes back a ‘she.’ And they do this…And
often without parental consent.” |
| This is all nonsense. There is
no basis for the claim that Trump’s opponents
are election cheaters. |
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“They are cheatin’ dogs, I will tell you that.”
In Scranton, he falsely
claimed, “Their first meeting is: ‘How do we cheat?’” |
| when Harris ran for president
in 2020, In fact, 13 other Democratic candidates dropped out of that primary
before Harris exited in December 2019 |
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“she was the first one to drop out, of like 22
people” |
| Harris has done multiple
interviews . Notably, Harris did an interview with the CBS News show
“60 Minutes,” , while
Trump backed out of his own interview with the show. |
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“She doesn’t do any interviews.” |
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claim t |
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“They want to add… they’re thinking about –
first time I heard this number – 25: they want to have 25 Supreme Court
justices.” |
| claim is false. The law Tim
Walz signed in 2023 requires schools to provide free menstrual products in
bathrooms, not the sale of menstrual products in locker rooms |
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“You know why they call him Tampon Tim? ’Cause
they sell tampons, with special legislation, in boys’ locker rooms.” |
| a familiar nonsensical story
about Using wind power as part of a mix of power sources does not cause
power outages when the wind isn’t blowing |
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the use of wind power means people “can’t watch”
television if “there’s no wind tonight.” |
| There is no
Biden administration requirement that consumers
must buy an electric car or give up their
existing gas-powered cars, “almost immediately” |
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“everybody’s got to have an
electric car almost immediately.” |
| a wild exaggeration.
Under the Obama administration,
the US paid $1 billion of a $3 billion commitment it originally made in
2014. And Biden
pledged $11.4 billion annually |
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under the Paris climate
accord, the US “had to pay a trillion dollars” while some other
countries didn’t have to pay. |
| beyond any reasonable
definition of “very recently.” Harris has
said during the 2024 campaign that she no longer favors banning
fracking. |
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“Listen to Kamala in her own words very
recently,” |
| The recorded global prison
population increased from October 2021 to April 2024, from at least about
10.77 million people to at least about
10.99 million people, according to the World Prison
Population List co |
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Trump
repeated his false claim that “the prison population all
over the world is down, because they put them in our country.” |
| Through August 2024, the
country had
recorded about 10.3 million nationwide “encounters” with
migrants during the Biden-Harris administration, including millions who were
rapidly expelled from the country; even adding in so-called “gotaways” who
evaded detection,
estimated by House Republicans as being roughly 2
million, there’s no way the total is “21 million.” |
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“21 million people – plus – came into our
nation” under the Biden-Harris administration. |
| This 13,099 figure includes
people who are incarcerated in federal, state and local prisons and jails –
and it includes people who entered the country over decades, including
during Trump’s administration, not just under Biden and Harris. You can read
more
here. |
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“You saw that last week: 13,099 murderers
allowed to come in, through them.” He falsely
claimed in Reading that “as we speak she has – and this
was just announced last week – 13,099, so over 13,000 illegal alien
convicted murderers, roaming free in our country.” |
| Official government
data shows 458 miles were built under Trump – including both wall built
where no barriers had existed before and wall built to
replace previous barriers. |
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“I built over 500 miles of wall” on the southern
border. |
| There have been empty seats at
numerous Trump rallies over the years – including
hundreds at this very rally in Reading. And at many
Trump rallies, some once-filled seats
empty out during his speeches when supporters leave. |
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“We never have an empty seat.” |
| But the International
Association of Firefighters had decided not to endorse any candidate; |
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“We got the firefighters endorse us, you
probably heard.” |
| The Presidential
Records Act says that, the moment a president leaves office, the
National Archives and Records Administration
gets custody and control of all presidential records. |
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“I had the Presidential Records Act; I was
totally allowed to do it.” |
| RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “The
claim is completely false,” “the award was upheld by the Pulitzer Prize Board after an independent
review” the Times’ reporting “was also substantiated by the Mueller
investigation and Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee investigation
into the matter.” |
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The New York Times “admitted they were wrong” |
| the Times did not apologize
for its 2016 election coverage. |
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“Remember in 2016 they had to do an editorial
apologizing to their readers because they said, ‘He’s going to lose’…and
then I won?” |
| there is still no evidence
Biden has received any
Chinese money. |
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“Biden got a lot of
money from China.” |
| not close to the all-time
record of
23.7%,
set in 1920, |
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“the worst inflation in the history of our
country.” |
| This is false. The average
rate on a standard 30-year fixed mortgage
was 6.12% i |
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young people can’t buy a house because interest
rates are higher than 10%: “It’s not 10%, it’s 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 percent.” |
| Expert analyses have
found that his 2017 tax cut ( the Republican Tax
Scam) law was not the largest in US history |
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“I gave you, as you know, the largest tax cut in
the history of our country.” |
| the US was generating billions per year in revenue from
tariffs on China before Trump took office;
in fact, the US has had tariffs on Chinese imports since the 1700s. Second,
US importers pay these tariffs, not China, and
study after study has found that Americans bore the
overwhelming majority of the cost of Trump’s tariffs. |
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China “paid hundreds of billions of dollars” in
these tariffs during my presidency, then
falsely
claimed that before my presidency, “nobody ever brought
in 10 cents, not one other – not 10 cents, you check those records.” |
| The US is far richer today
than in the 1890s; per capita gross domestic product is
now many times higher than it was then. |
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in the 1890s, when the US
had very high tariffs, “Our country was the richest it
ever was.” |
| The US has never had a $500 billion trade deficit with China. The
all-time record, about $418 billion, was set under Trump in 2018. |
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the US trade deficit
with China has averaged “$500 billion” per
year. |
| Biden’s documents:
Biden was not convicted, “essentially”
or not, and was not found guilty; in fact, Biden was not even charged with a
crime. The special counsel in the case, Robert Hur,
wrote in his public report that “the evidence does not establish Mr.
Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,” |
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“Biden was
essentially convicted” and in Scranton
that “they ruled on him, they said he’s guilty.” |
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