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https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3496659-how-the-sussmann-trial-revealed-hillary-clintons-role-in-the-alfa-bank-scandal/
How the Sussmann trial revealed Hillary Clintonâs role in the Alfa Bank scandal
thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3496659-how-the-sussmann-trial-revealed-hillary-clintons-role-in-the-alfa-bank-scandal
May 21, 2022
Opinion>Judiciary
by Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor - 05/21/22 10:30 AM ET
The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill
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The trial of former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann crossed a critical threshold Friday when a key witness uttered the name âHillary Clintonâ in conjunction with a plan to spread the false Alfa Bank Russian collusion claim before the 2016 presidential election.
For Democrats and many in the media, Hillary Clinton has long held a Voldemort-like status as âShe who must not be namedâ in scandals. Yet, there was her former campaign manager, Robby Mook, telling a jury that Clinton personally approved a plan to spread the claim of covert communications between the Trump organization and the Russian bank. It was one of the most successful disinformation campaigns in American politics, and Mook implicated Clinton as green-lighting the gas-lighting of the electorate.
The mere mention of Clintonâs name sent shockwaves through Washington. In past scandals, the Clintons have always evaded direct responsibility as aides were investigated or convicted, from the Whitewater land dealings to cattle futures. Even when long-sought documents in Whitewater were discovered outside of the family quarters and bearing Hillary Clintonâs fingerprints, Washington quickly moved on.
Clinton was not supposed to be the object of the Sussmann trial, because Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, issued a series of orders limiting the scope of the trial and its evidence. The orders were viewed as âspar[ing] the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee ⌠potential embarrassment.â
Yet, even after winning such limiting orders, it was the defense that called Mook to the stand
â out of order, in the midst of the prosecutionâs case, because he was scheduled to leave on vacation
â and he proceeded to confirm that Clinton herself approved of the tactic.
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It was Washingtonâs worst-kept but least-acknowledged secret.
On July 28, 2016, then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama on Hillary Clintonâs alleged plan to tie Donald Trump to Russia as âa means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.â Obama reportedly was told how Clinton allegedly approved âa proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.â
Thus, Mook testified that Clinton did precisely what Brennan warned Obama was being planned.
The date of Brennanâs warning is important: It was three days before the FBIâs collusion investigation began. It also was a couple of months before Sussmann contacted then-FBI general counsel Jim Baker while claiming he was not representing any client. (He was counsel to the Clinton campaign and, according to prosecutors, billed the meeting time to the campaign.)
There is a strikingly familiar pattern in both the Steele dossier
â which became the basis for the Russia collusion investigation
â and the Alfa Bank tale. Campaign associates developed both claims while actively seeking to conceal their connections from the public and the government, including reportedly denying the funding of the Steele dossier and concealing that funding as legal costs.
The campaign then pushed these unfounded claims to the media and the FBI. Indeed, prosecutors this week contended that Sussmann continued to push the Alfa Bank claims after Trump was elected, in an apparent effort to fuel the Russia collusion claims being breathlessly reported in the media at the time.
When Clinton allegedly approved this effort, at least some people connected to her campaign were aware that the Alfa Bank theory was never viewed as credible by researchers tasked with supporting it. Those researchers had warned that it would be easy to âpoke several holesâ in the claim, according to prosecutors, and that the data could be seen as âa red herring.â Yet, trial witnesses admitted that they hoped the media would make the claims stick.
Despite a record of Clinton associates pushing unfounded allegations to the FBI on both the Steele dossier and Alfa Bank, Mook and another witness, Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias, insisted they preferred to use the media for such efforts. The campaign found a conduit in one liberal magazine, for example, whose story was then cited as a âbombshellâ report, as if the campaign had had nothing to do with it.
For her part, Clinton not only approved using the Alpha Bank claim but helped to portray it as an established fact, tweeting: âComputer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.â
That claim was then further amplified by one of her campaign advisers, Jake Sullivan, who now serves as President Bidenâs national security adviser. Sullivan declared at the time: âThis could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow. Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.â Sullivan added that he could âonly assume federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between Trump and Russia as part of their existing probe into Russiaâs meddling in our elections.â
Trumpâs vice presidential running mate for 2024? Americaâs rhetorical sphere has descended into chaos
As the FBIâs Baker and other witnesses told jurors this week, there was in fact ânothing there.â
Months after approving the Alpha Bank strategy, Clinton called in December 2016 to censor opponents whom she accused of spreading falsehoods to try to influence elections. She declared that âitâs now clear that so-called âfake newsâ can have real-world consequences.â Indeed, Clinton has pushed for state and corporate censorship while demanding a âglobal reckoningâ with those who spread disinformation. Of course, Sussmann could still face the real consequence of conviction given the strength of the evidence against him. Yet, there will likely not be consequences
â let alone a âreckoningâ
â for Hillary Clinton.
''Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.â
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>â out of order, in the midst of the prosecutionâs case, because he was scheduled to leave on vacation
If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation.
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>Is this real?
Can't You Tell?
It's Been Photoshopped.
Kamala and Joe Have Had Their Heads Reversed.
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>Can someone please provide sauce that the Jewish religion is okay with letting women get abortions?
Proof?
'Fetus =Goyim'
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>Any anons have the video of Nunes saying anons were helping?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/21/devin-nunes-reacts-to-court-testimony-that-hillary-clinton-approved-pushing-trump-russia-collusion-fraud-to-media/
Devin Nunes Reacts to Court Testimony that Hillary Clinton Approved Pushing Trump-Russia Collusion Fraud to Media
theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/21/devin-nunes-reacts-to-court-testimony-that-hillary-clinton-approved-pushing-trump-russia-collusion-fraud-to-media
May 21, 2022
''At least in the DC sphere, Devin Nunes was one of the first politicians to point out that Hillary Clintonâs campaign was behind a coordinated effort to manufacture the Trump-Russia collusion story as an election strategy.''
Yesterday, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, testifying in the Sussmann trial, admitted that part of the effort involved creating and pushing the false Alfa-Bank story, where data servers in Trump Tower were communicating with Russia and the Trump campaign. Mook admitted to having discussions with the campaign leadership about pushing the fraudulent story, and Hillary Clinton approving the strategy.
While none of the statements/admissions by Robby Mook was new information for readers here, Devin Nunes reacts to the first public admission by the Clinton campaign manager. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
https://rumble.com/v15h3d8-nunes-reacts-to-news-that-hillary-clinton-okd-feeding-media-fake-alfa-bank-.html
Conrad Black: The Swamp Must Be Drained
zerohedge.com/political/conrad-black-swamp-must-be-drained
Op-Ed authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
''The Democrats are increasingly desperate as the return of Donald Trump becomes more likely each week.''
They are muddling the sequence of events that got us to the present impasse: Trump ran against the corrupt back-scratching, log-rolling society of the OBushintons
âthe Clinton pay-to-play schemes, the Biden sales of influence and access, the semi-disguised socialist racism elitism of the Obamas, and the flabby sameness and ineffectuality of the BushâMcCainâRomneyâMcConnellâRyan Republicans. Trump sensed the people were dissatisfied with the bipartisan Swamp, and he ran as strenuously against the Bushes and McCain and Romney in 2016 as he did against the Clintons and Obamas.
The anti-Trumpers of both parties, in the most legally questionable presidential election in U.S. history, eased Trump out in 2020 with the aid of 4.8 million harvested ballots, 95 percent of the national political media, and 70 percent of the campaign money, to bring in (unintentionally, one assumes, although there was plenty of warning) the most incompetent regime in the countryâs history.
In 2020, the Washington establishment demonstrated the accuracy of Trumpâs claims of how corrupt and unscrupulous it was, and Biden has demonstrated that itâs even more incompetent at government than Trump alleged.
The Swamp must be drained, and distasteful though he might be in some ways, probably no one less formidable in his egocentricity and demagogic talents than Trump could drain the Swamp. The Republicans between Reagan and Trump were all inducted into it themselves, and the Republican âNever-Trumpersâ are as fierce in their animosity toward the former president as toward the Democrats, and as the Democrats are toward Trump. Only Trump can finish the job.
This is why the latest anti-Trump wheeze is to send Biden and Trump out to pasture together, as if it were an even trade: The Democrats get rid of their two biggest problems, and the Republicans return to being doormats, awarded the White House and the speakerâs chair at times as long as they donât interrupt the majestic slide into the Democratic socialist paradise
(with a permanent free tax-lunch for their rich friends in Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood).
Biden is irrelevant and Trump has the stamina of a 40-year-old; the call for joint retirement is bunk on all counts.
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Biden is irrelevant and Trump has the stamina of a 40-year-old; the call for joint retirement is bunk on all counts.
Pennsylvania illustrates the political polarization of the country and also provides the solution. The Democrats will nominate a Sandersite leftist for U.S. senator and the Republicans will almost certainly win with a Trumpiteâa description that fits all four of their front-runners, and all four are more or less carpetbaggers. The Republican nominee will be another senator whose loyalty is to Trump, if he returns as president, and not to Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell.
The walls are closing in on the Democrats, to use one of their favorite, completely dishonest phrases about Trump when they were trying to sell the gigantic fraud that he had colluded with the Russians in the 2016 election.
The Democrats hid their innocuous candidate in 2020 in his basement on grounds of COVID-19, while using the same justification for drastic changes in key states of voting and vote-counting rules, changes that were often effected illegally, and the judiciary abdicated and refused to judge any of the serious complaints on their merits. It was the most dangerously illegal assault on the integrity of the election process and on the constitutional balance of powers in the countryâs history.
The problem is not that both 2020 candidates are now too elderly. The problem is that 2020 and the run-up to it demonstrated that the Swamp is as venal and self-interested and corrupt as Trump said in 2016, and they are back. If we go back to business as usualâa stronger Democrat than Biden and a compliant consensus Republicanâthe rot of 2016 accelerates.
When the congressional Republicans, though most of them werenât really supporters of his, appreciated his program, and between the Republican majority in Congress in the first two years and the prerogatives of executive action, Trump got much of his program through, despite unprecedented harassment. The authors of the perfidious fraud of the 2020 election were rescued by Trumpâs inept response and the abdication of the judiciary.
Trump inadvertently collaborated with his enemies by bungling the daily COVID-19 briefings, bungling the first debate by his belligerency, and warning about ballot harvesting but not challenging it legally from the outset, comprehensively, and only sending poor Rudy Giuliani out on a trick or treat show when the battle was over.
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These were the circumstances that caused Trump to call 250,000 of his supporters to the Ellipse adjacent to the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. He enumerated his grievances against the electoral process and the courtsâ failure to try the important cases, and having unsuccessfully urged the mayor of Washington and the speaker of the House of Representatives to provide enhanced security for the Capitol on that day, he urged the crowd to demonstrate at the Capitol but to do so âpeacefully and patriotically.â This provoked the second asinine stab at impeachment, now ostensibly to remove Trump from an office that he had already vacated.
Trump thus provoked in four years a 100 percent increase in the number of presidential impeachments that had occurred in the previous 228 years of its historyâthe march of the criminalization of policy differences. (None of the four was justified.)
The House of Representatives committee to investigate Jan. 6, stuffed with pathological Trump-haters of both parties and from which Nancy Pelosi barred a couple of Trumpâs more prominent defenders, will excavate a new low in malicious partisanship and will televise its hearings in June. No one believes them and no one cares; Jan. 6 isnât the point and wasnât an insurrection.
There were many months of arrests and interrogations in which it must be assumed that prosecutors resorted extensively to their widespread practice of grossly abusing the plea-bargain rules to suborn and extort perjured inculpatory evidence against their real target, Trump and his organization, with promises of minimal sentences and immunity from prosecution for perjury. This has not turned up anything, and the last thing Trump wanted was anything that could be imputed to him as an attack on constitutional government. That charge is a bit rich coming from this gang of Democrats.
The Democrats have tried to distract the country with the abortion question, but it isnât working any more than the country believes that Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the oil companies are responsible for the highest gasoline price in American history. Their latest gambit is to try to whip up hysteria one more time on COVID-19, but that wonât fly either. The only person who had anything right about COVID-19 was Trump with his imaginative and determined pursuit of a vaccine.
The Trump-haters of both parties who rattled the windows of Washington when they heaved a sigh of relief at Trumpâs departure are only now emerging from denial that heâs about to run over them with a steamroller much larger and more fueled by righteousness than the one they drove over him.
Woke, 1619 revisionism, racist disinformation, and violent protest: All have to be torn up, root and branch. But if Trump does return, he must give less ammunition to his enemies. American history and public policy are not all about him, and the presidency of the United States is such a great office it requires its occupants to behave with a higher level of civility and dignity than Donald Trump often did when he was president.
He will return to that office and do better in it if heâs less needlessly abrasive and self-obsessed.
The country can start again in 2028 with new leaders, a fully house-trained post-Trump Republican Party, and a rebuilt Democratic Party over the Ozymandian wreckage of BidenâSandersâHarrisâSchumerâPelosi.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times or Zero Hedge
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Nov 14 2017 21:25:09 (EST)
For the coming days ahead.
Ask yourself an honest question, why would a billionaire who has it all, fame, fortune, a warm and loving family, friends, etc. want to endanger himself and his family by becoming POTUS?
Why would he want to target himself and those he cares about?
Does he need money?
Does he need fame?
What does he get out of this?
Does he want to make the US/world a better place for his family and for those good and decent people who have long been taken advantage of?
Perhaps he could not stomach the thought of mass murders occurring to satisfy Moloch?
Perhaps he could not stomach the thought of children being kidnapped, drugged, and raped while leaders/law enforcement of the world turn a blind eye.
Perhaps he was tired of seeing how certain races/countries were being constantly abused and kept in need/poor/and suffering all for a specific purpose.
Perhaps he could not in good conscious see the world burn.
Why, hours after the election, did seven people travel to an undisclosed location to hold a very private & highly secured/guarded meeting?
Why didnât HRC give a concession speech?
When was the last time a presidential candidate didnât personally give a concession speech?
What happens if the border remained open and the MSM continued to brainwash?
At what point do Patriots, and hard working men and woman, become the minority?
What about voting machines?
Who owns the voting machines?
What about voter ID laws?
Photo ID? When is it necessary and must be presented? Make a list. Laugh.
Reconcile.
Would the chances of defeating evil grow less and less with each passing year?
What does âred lineâ mean?
Why, again, were the arrests made in SA so very important?
What strings were immediately cut?
Follow the money.
When does a bird sing?
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-bidens-success-our-mess
Victor Davis Hanson: Is Biden's "Success" Our Mess?
zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-bidens-success-our-mess
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,
If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions, what would it have done differently than what President Joe Biden has done?
So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing ideologue?
When pressed about inflation and fuel price hikes, Biden either blames someone or something else, gets mad at the questioner, or claims former President Donald Trump did it.
His administration apparently believes things are going well and according to plan.
When polls disagree, his team either believes the American people are brainwashed or that they themselves have not supplied sufficient propaganda. So they never pivot or compromise, but rededicate themselves to continued failure.
Why? Apparently, what most in the country see as disasters, Biden envisions as success.
Take the border - or rather its disappearance.
Never in U.S. history has an administration simply canceled immigration laws, opened the border, and welcomed in millions of illegal aliens. All arrive illegally, and without audit, or vaccinations and tests in times of a pandemic.
Cartels now import lethal drugs at will into the United States. We have no idea how many terrorists walk across the border each day.
Almost all the entering millions who break the law are poor, without high school diplomas or English skills, and in dire need of massive federal and state housing, food, education, legal, and health subsidies.
Do the leftists in Washington believe that millions of dependent new residents will look to the Left for decades of support and soon find ways to reciprocate with fealty at the polls? Is that why Democrats brag in unapologetic tribalist fashion about changing the demography of the electorate?
Former President Barack Obama's energy secretary-designate Steven Chu once gaffed in the 2008 campaign when he openly wished that U.S. gas prices would reach European levels.
In truth, the Left has always believed the only way to achieve their objectives of discouraging driving, forcing middle-class Americans onto trains and buses, and persuading them to live in urban high-rises rather than drive carbon-spewing cars from spacious suburban ranch-style homes was to encourage high fuel prices.
Is that agenda why Biden, during the current energy crisis, simply canceled new federal oil and gas leases? As diesel hits $7 a gallon in California, why else did he refuse to finish the Keystone XL pipeline or reopen Alaskan oil fields?
Inflation continues officially to exceed 8% per annum. Most consumers feel it is double that when they pay for food, fuel, building materials, houses, or rent - the essential stuff of life.
What did the Biden Administration expect would follow from keeping real interest rates at near zero, while printing trillions of dollars at the moment supplies were short and demand was spiking?
Or did it think inflation more fairly "spreads the wealth"? Does it prompt new necessary attacks on "corporate greed?" Does it demand more federal intervention and socialist policies?
If inflation is "bad" for most, it may not seem so to this left-wing administration.
Violent crime is on its way to 1970s levels. The combination of defunding the police, radical city and county prosecutors who don't charge or lock up criminals, and emptying jails and prisons have ignited a national crime wave.
The Biden Administration shrugs. It offers no new federal help to fund more police or charge freed criminals under applicable federal statutes.
Does it think it is more socially just to let criminals free than incarcerate them?
Does it buy into "critical legal theory" that laws do not reflect ancient ideas of right and wrong, but instead are "constructed" by the privileged to oppress the already oppressed?
Is what Americans see as dangerous crime something the Biden zealots applaud as tough social karma?
Americans are tired of the new woke tribalism. Judging individuals on the basis of their race, gender, or superficial appearance is amoral, and contrary to the entire civil rights movement, and the U.S. Constitution.
It destroys any idea of meritocracy and divides the country artificially into supposed victims and victimizers.
But do the Biden people see it that way?
Or do they promote racial tensions and tribalism, as welcome revolutionary fervor?
In that regard, the Bidenites promote identity politics as a good way to stir up the pot, to demonize supposed oppressors and deify the oppressed - all as a way of retaining political power. For the Left, living in a socialist nation controlled by an elite is far preferable to living in a free and prosperous one answerable only to the people.
The public believes the Biden Administration has failed America, with disastrous results due either to its incompetence, belligerence, or left-wing zealotry.
But Biden and his delusional team seem delighted with what they have wrought.
In sum, what Americans see as an abject catastrophe, they cheer on as a stunning and planned success.
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Elon Musk Hammers Hillary Clinton Over âRussia Hoaxâ: âPissedâ My Donation Used For âLyingâ
dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-hammers-hillary-clinton-over-russia-hoax-pissed-my-donation-used-for-lying
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk ripped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday after testimony in the criminal trial of her former campaign attorney revealed that she approved pushing unfounded claims of Trump/Russia collusion to reporters.
Musk is in negotiations to purchase the social media platform Twitter in a $44 billion deal. He has rankled many on the Democratic side of the aisle in recent weeks with his promises to protect free speech on the platform, as well as with his criticisms of the Democratic Party and leftists.
On Friday, he responded to an account flagging a 2016 Clinton tweet on false Trump/Russia collusion claims as âdisinformation.â
âYou are absolutely correct. That tweet is a Clinton campaign hoax for which their campaign lawyer is undergoing a criminal trial,â Musk said, referring to the trial of cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann that began in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
In a follow-up tweet, Musk challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Twitter general counsel Vijaya Gadde over the false 2016 claim. âWhat say you?â Musk asked. The Tesla CEO has been an outspoken critic of Twitterâs censorship policies throughout negotiations.
Sussmann is being tried on one count of lying to the FBI during a September 2016 meeting with then-FBI general counsel James Baker, who joined Twitterâs legal team in June 2020. Prosecutors say Sussmann, who was an attorney at Perkins Coie at the time, hid that he was working on behalf of two clients
â the Clinton presidential campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe
â from Baker, who claims that Sussmann approached him as a concerned citizen.
Sussmann has denied the charge, arguing that he never lied to Baker and, even if he did, his false statement had no impact on how the FBI handled the information he presented.
Sussmann has denied the charge, arguing that he never lied to Baker and, even if he did, his false statement had no impact on how the FBI handled the information he presented.
The Clinton tweet in question was entered into evidence during the Sussmann trial on Friday after Clintonâs 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, read the tweet in front of the jury. Mook testified that top staffers in the Clinton campaign, with Clintonâs explicit approval, pushed unsubstantiated claims of a backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russiaâs Alfa-Bank to reporters.
âI discussed it with Hillary as well,â Mook testified. âI donât remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter.â
âShe agreed,â he said.
Sussmann eventually took the Alfa-Bank claim to the FBI to, as prosecutors allege, help convince skeptical reporters to run the story. According to prosecutors, Sussmann billed the Clinton campaign for the meeting with Baker.
Musk claims to have only heard about the scandal last month. He âwas blown away,â he said.
Musk stated that he supported Clinton during the 2016 election before he knew of the false claims her campaign was alleging against former President Donald Trump. âI donated to & voted for Hillary, so am doubly pissed off about those funds being used for lying,â Musk said.
In another tweet, Musk reacted with apparent surprise when told that the former CFO of the 2016 Clinton campaign, Gary Gensler, now chairs the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which has investigated Musk multiple times and is currently looking into him again over the disclosure of his Twitter stake.
The SEC fined the 2016 Clinton campaign $8,000 in March for misreporting its funding of the notorious Steele dossier during the campaign as âlegal servicesâ and âlegal and compliance consulting.â
âSus man,â Musk said in another post, an apparent play on the name of the former Clinton campaign attorney Sussmann.
âBet most people still donât know that a Clinton campaign lawyer, using campaign funds, created an elaborate hoax about Trump and Russia. Makes you wonder what else is fake,â he said in another Twitter post. Responding to another user, Musk confirmed âI am indeed out for bloodâ after ripping into the Clinton campaign and noting the unraveling of the Russia collusion conspiracy.
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