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After he left the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly shared sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire who is a member of his Mar-a-Lago club, according to a pair of reports published on Thursday. Trump shared the information with Anthony Pratt during an April 2021 conversation at the Palm Beach, Fla., golf club, according to ABC News, which first reported the development. The New York Times also confirmed the former president shared the information with Pratt, citing two people familiar with the matter. Trump shared the number of warheads that U.S. submarines typically carry and how close they can get to Russian submarines without being detected, according to both ABC and the New York Times. Trump didn't show any government documents to him during the meeting or any other time at Mar-a-Lago, sources told ABC News.
Persons: Donald Trump, Anthony Pratt, Scott Morrison, Trump, Pratt, Jack Smith's, Trump's, Steven Cheung Organizations: Pratt, Australian, Pratt Industries, White, ABC News, New York Times, FBI, ABC, Justice, NBC, Mar, Times, Department of Justice, Prosecutors, Trump Locations: Wapakoneta , Ohio, Beach, Fla, Australia, U.S, Russian, Fort Pierce
Donald Trump's ex-accountant spent three hours recognizing documents on Tuesday. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe New York attorney general and Donald Trump's lawyers used dynamic visuals and bombastic language to savage one another in court on Monday. Come Tuesday morning, the state found itself having to spend three hours asking Trump's former accountant Donald Bender to authenticate documents. He'd ask Bender if he recognized the signature of Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg, which was helpfully labeled "Allen Weisselberg," and that of Donald Trump Jr., helpfully labeled "Donald Trump Jr."AdvertisementAdvertisementBender, with his eye for detail, always did. James is hoping the trial brings $250 million in penalties and that Trump and his adult sons are banned from ever running a business in New York state again.
Persons: Donald Trump's, Donald Bender's, Trump, , Donald Bender, Bender, Bender —, Allen Weisselberg, Donald Trump Jr, Arthur Engoron, Engoron, Letitia James, Alina Habba, Habba, Chris Kise —, James Organizations: Service, Trump Organization, New York, Trump Locations: York, New York
Attorneys for Donald Trump urged a judge not to impose a partial gag order on the former president in his federal election interference case, claiming that prosecutors are trying to "unconstitutionally silence" him. The federal case charges Trump in connection with a multi-pronged conspiracy to overturn his loss to Biden in the 2020 election. Trump has pleaded not guilty in the case, which is set to head to trial in March. Smith warned the judge that Trump's repeated attacks could "undermine the integrity of these proceedings" and taint the jury pool. The court filing cited numerous social media posts from Trump's Truth Social account railing against Chutkan, the prosecutors and the city of Washington itself.
Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Trump, Joe Biden, Tanya Chutkan, Smith, Chutkan, Trump's Organizations: U.S, Republican, Women, America, Washington , D.C, Biden, Trump, Chutkan Locations: Washington , U.S, Washington ,, Washington
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. September 20, 2023. "Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden’s weaponized Government," Trump wrote on his Truth Social media site late on Wednesday, calling it "the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots." New York and Georgia are also prosecuting him and a federal shutdown would not affect those cases. Republicans and Democrats seized on Trump's plea, with Trump ally, U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, posting on X, formerly known as Twitter: "Trump Opposes the Continuing Resolution. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote on X: "Trump ordered House Republicans to shutdown the government.
Persons: Donald Trump, Scott Morgan, Kevin McCarthy, Joe, Trump, Joe Biden, Matt Gaetz, Hakeem Jeffries, Susan Heavey, Howard Goller Organizations: U.S, Republican, REUTERS, Republicans, U.S . House, Social, Patriots, U.S . Justice, Democrat, Trump, Democrats, Democratic, House Republicans, Thomson Locations: Dubuque , Iowa, U.S, weaponized, New York, Georgia
The lawsuit against the IRS is only the latest in a series of counterpunches by the president's son. Now, Hunter Biden could be heading to trial in the midst of his father’s reelection effort. Hunter Biden, according to his memoir, tumbled into drug addiction after the death of his older brother, Beau, in 2015. Earlier this year Hunter Biden hired high-profile attorney Abbe Lowell, a legal heavyweight known for also representing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. “And it is not even touching on the issue of whether people think that he is being prosecuted because he’s Hunter Biden," she said.
Persons: — Hunter Biden, Hunter, Biden, Hunter Biden aren't, , David Brock, , Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden’s, Donald Trump, Biden hasn't, Trump, Hunter Biden's, Michael LaRosa, ” LaRosa, Joe Biden, , that's, Beau, Abbe Lowell, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Mr, Jennifer Rodgers, he’s Hunter Biden, ___ Durkin, Michael Balsamo Organizations: WASHINGTON, IRS, White, Democratic, Biden, Associated Press, House Republicans, Trump, Justice Department, Republicans, NORC, for Public Affairs Research Locations: United States, Delaware, Boston
REUTERS/Kevin Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreWASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Thursday opposed Donald Trump’s request to remove the federal judge overseeing the criminal case accusing the former U.S. president of attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 election. The case, which accuses Trump of three schemes to try to overturn his defeat by Democratic President Joe Biden, is one of four criminal cases facing Trump as he runs to retake the White House. U.S. prosecutors said Chutkan’s remarks do not clear the high legal bar that requires federal judges to remove themselves from a case. Judges typically recuse if they have a financial interest in the outcome or a personal connection to someone involved. Reporting by Andrew Goudsward; additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Scott Malone and Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Jack Smith, Donald Trump, Kevin, Donald Trump’s, Smith, Tanya Chutkan, Chutkan, ” Trump, Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Chutkan’s, Andrew Goudsward, Dan Whitcomb, Scott Malone, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Trump, U.S, U.S . Capitol, Republican, Democratic, Capitol, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, WASHINGTON
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday announced that he has instructed three GOP-led committees to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. McCarthy apparently abandoned his previous vow that an impeachment inquiry would occur through a vote in the House. Senate Republicans are skeptical that the House has uncovered enough evidence to justify an impeachment inquiry. The Republican-led House Oversight committee launched an investigation in January into allegations that Biden profited from his son Hunter's business dealings while he was vice president. Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the oversight committee, called the GOP investigation "a complete and total bust" in a statement Monday.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy, Joe Biden, McCarthy, Biden, James Comer, Jim Jordan of, Jason Smith, Ian Sams, Jamie Raskin, Raskin Organizations: GOP, GOP Rep, White, Republicans, Republican Locations: Ky, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo
Federal prosecutors expect to hand Hunter Biden a new indictment before September 29. The indictment will be related to gun charges Biden's attorneys hoped to resolve in July. He has also been under investigation by federal prosecutors for his business dealings. Defense attorney Abbe Lowell said Hunter Biden has kept to the terms of the deal, including regular visits by the probation office. The White House Counsel's office referred questions to Hunter Biden's personal attorneys.
Persons: Hunter Biden, Biden, Joe Biden's, Hunter, Delaware David Weiss, Hunter Biden's, Abbe Lowell, Maryellen Noreika, Kevin McCarthy, Department's, Noreika, Donald Trump, should've, Robert Weisberg, General Merrick Garland, Weiss, Farnoush Amiri Organizations: Service, , U.S, Attorney, Prosecutors, District, Justice, Republicans, Fox News, Treasury Department, Hunter, Stanford Law School, Supreme, News Locations: Wall, Silicon, WASHINGTON, Delaware, Louisiana
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles during a campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire, U.S., August 8, 2023. Woodward currently represents Walt Nauta, one of the two Trump employees also charged in the documents case, in addition to having previously represented the IT head, who is not named in Wednesday's filing. But he suggested in Wednesday's filing that prosecutors' handling of the IT manager's testimony was improper. Prosecutors have charged Trump, Nauta and a third Mar-a-Lago employee, Carlos De Oliveira, with trying to thwart government efforts to retrieve sensitive documents taken to the Florida resort after Trump left office. Prosecutors said in an August court filing that the witness initially denied any knowledge of obstruction.
Persons: Donald Trump, Reba Saldanha, Jack Smith’s, Stanley Woodward, Woodward, Walt Nauta, Aileen Cannon, Trump, Joe Biden, Yuscil Taveras, Nauta, Taveras, Carlos De Oliveira, Prosecutors, Andrew Goudsward, Scott Malone, Andrea Ricci Organizations: U.S, Republican, REUTERS, Rights, Trump's, Walt, Trump, IT, Prosecutors, Democratic, Politico, CNN, Thomson Locations: Windham , New Hampshire, U.S, Lago Florida, Florida
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden named former federal prosecutor and Chicago lawyer Ed Siskel as his top White House lawyer on Tuesday, saying the former White House deputy counsel would start his new post next month. Siskel served in the White House Counsel's office for nearly four years when Biden was vice president under former President Barack Obama, including as deputy counsel, the White House said in a statement. "For nearly four years in the White House when I was vice president, he helped the Counsel’s Office navigate complex challenges and advance the president’s agenda on behalf of the American people," Biden wrote. He previously was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Illinois and was a clerk for then-Justice John Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House said. Siskel replaces Stuart Delery, who is stepping down after serving as White House counsel since July 2022.
Persons: Joe Biden, Kevin Lamarque, Ed Siskel, Siskel, Biden, Barack Obama, I, Biden’s, Hunter, Obama, Rahm Emanuel, John Stevens, Stuart Delery, Susan Heavey, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Lahaina Civic Center, REUTERS, Rights, White, . House Republicans, Chicago, Trump, U.S . Department of Justice, U.S, Attorney’s, Northern District of Illinois, Supreme, Thomson Locations: Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, U.S, Chicago, Northern District
A Florida federal judge on Thursday said she would hold a hearing sealed from the public to discuss prosecutors' request for an order to protect classified material at the heart of a criminal case against former President Donald Trump. The hearing "will take place at a designated time and place to discuss sensitive, security-related issues concerning classified discovery," Judge Aileen Cannon said in a written order. Cannon did not say in the order where and when that hearing will occur. But she said that Trump and his co-defendants in the case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, did not have to attend the hearing. Trump is charged in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida with crimes related to retaining classified government records after leaving the White House and trying to cover up the fact that he was keeping those documents in boxes at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.
Persons: Donald Trump, Aileen Cannon, Cannon, Trump, Walt Nauta, Carlos De Oliveira Organizations: Southern, Southern District of, White House Locations: Florida, U.S, Southern District, Southern District of Florida, Lago, Palm Beach
But the Trump campaign and their affiliated committees ultimately did not honor that pledge, according to campaign finance records. Over more than two months, Giuliani served as the public face of Trump's election challenges, which ultimately failed. The money came in response to countless fundraising appeals that claimed it was needed to fund Trump's election challenges in court. Chesebro, for his part, told the House committee that the work he did for the Trump team was pro bono. But not a penny more from team Trump for their services.
Persons: Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Carlo Allegri, Donald Trump's, Trump, Giuliani, Timothy Parlatore, Bernard Kerik, Jack Smith's, Parlatore, Bob Costello, Kerik, stiffed Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jonathan Ernst, Kenneth Chesebro, John Eastman, Eastman, Powell, Chesebro, Matthew Morgan, Jim Bourg, Reuters Morgan, Eastman didn't, Jan, Morgan, Justin Clark, Clark, we're Organizations: New York, Republican, of Police, Reuters, Trump, New, CNBC, ", Capitol, Save, OpenSecrets, PAC, U.S, Republican National Committee, Commission, Giuliani, Georgia RICO, New York City, Congress, Federal, FEC, Eastman Locations: Statesville , North Carolina, U.S, New York, Georgia, Save America, Washington, Washington , U.S
Unlike other federal prosecutors, special counsels work without day-to-day control by the Justice Department. Unlike with other cases, the attorney general must notify Congress if he or she overrules one of the special counsel's decisions. And the special counsel must submit a report laying out the reasons for charging people or declining to do so. Those lawyers worked with an even greater degree of independence than special counsels. When statute creating independent counsels expired in 1999 it was replaced by existing Department of Justice rules for appointing special counsels.
Persons: General Merrick Garland, David Weiss, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Bonnie Cash, Joe Biden's, Hunter, Weiss, Garland, Jack Smith, Donald Trump's, Smith, Robert Mueller, Trump, Biden, Robert Hur, Brad Heath, Don Durfee Organizations: U.S, Justice Department, REUTERS, FBI, of Justice, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Florida, Russia, U.S, Delaware, Maryland, Kosovo
Unlike other federal prosecutors, special counsels work without day-to-day control by the Justice Department. Unlike with other cases, the attorney general must notify Congress if he or she overrules one of the special counsel's decisions. And the special counsel must submit a report laying out the reasons for charging people or declining to do so. When statute creating independent counsels expired in 1999 it was replaced by existing Department of Justice rules for appointing special counsels. The special counsel's investigation could weigh on Biden's 2024 reelection campaign, some Democrats say, because it has the potential to broaden to other issues.
Persons: General Merrick Garland, David Weiss, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Bonnie Cash, Joe Biden's, Hunter, Weiss, Garland, Jack Smith, Donald Trump's, Smith, Robert Mueller, WEISS, HUR, SMITH, Trump, Biden, Robert Hur, HUNTER BIDEN, Brad Heath, Don Durfee, Heather Timmons Organizations: U.S, Justice Department, REUTERS, WHO CAN, FBI, of Justice, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Florida, Russia, U.S, Delaware, Maryland, Kosovo
Mike Pence knocked Joe and Hunter Biden over news of a special counsel's investigation. Pence said when he was vice president, "my son was flying an F-35 for the Marine Corps." Hunter Biden was conducting business with foreign companies and struggled with substance abuse during Biden's vice presidency. "When I was vice president, my son was flying an F-35 for the Marine Corps defending this country. Then-Vice President Pence also spoke of his son during his eulogy for President George H.W.
Persons: Mike Pence, Joe, Hunter Biden, Pence, Joe Biden, Hunter's, Biden, president's, General Merrick Garland, David Weiss, Weiss, Hunter, Kevin McCarthy, Beau, James Comer, Michael Pence Jr's, George H.W, George H.W . Bush, Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump Organizations: Marine Corps, Service, Fair, White, Republicans, Republican, Biden, Florida Gov Locations: Wall, Silicon, Iowa, Ukrainian, George H.W .
In November 2021, Chutkan forcefully rejected Trump’s attempts to block the House select committee investigating January 6 from accessing more than 700 pages of records from his White House. “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” Chutkan wrote in her ruling. At a December 2021 sentencing hearing, she looked ahead to the 2024 election, saying that “every day we are hearing about reports of anti-democratic factions, people plotting potential violence in 2024." … He went for one man.”At a sentencing hearing on October 4, 2021, she acknowledged the nationwide attention on the Capitol riot cases. At that same hearing, she also rejected comparisons between January 6 and the 2020 protests against racial inequality.
Persons: Tanya Chutkan, who's, Donald Trump’s, Chutkan, Trump’s, ” Chutkan, , Trump, sentencings, , Read Organizations: United States Capitol, Capitol Locations: Washington ,
U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaks during the Victory Rally by the Republican National Committee in Dalton, Georgia, United States on January 04, 2021. The Trump campaign attacked the Biden administration and the Department of Justice in a furious statement after the grand jury investigating interference in the 2020 election handed up an indictment. The campaign in a statement did not explicitly say that Trump had been indicted in the special counsel's probe. But his campaign wrote that that "the answer is, election interference!" "President Trump has always followed the law and the Constitution, with advice from many highly accomplished attorneys," the statement said.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, Trump's, Joe Biden, Kevin Breuninger Organizations: Republican National, Biden, Department of Justice, weaponized Department of Justice Locations: Dalton , Georgia, United States, Nazi Germany
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Nevada Republican volunteer recruiting event at Fervent: A Calvary Chapel on July 8, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Department of Justice's special counsel on Thursday urged a federal judge to reject Donald Trump's bid to indefinitely delay his trial on criminal charges related to his retention of classified documents after he left the White House. Trump is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. "Defendants' claim that this Court could not select an impartial jury until after the presidential election does not justify further delay here." He and Nauta, who is accused of aiding him in that alleged effort, have pleaded not guilty in the case.
Persons: Donald Trump, Donald Trump's, Jack Smith's, Trump, Walt Nauta, Nauta, Smith's Organizations: U.S, Republican, Nevada Republican, The, White House, DOJ, United States Code, Trump Locations: Nevada, Las Vegas , Nevada, Florida, West Palm Beach , Florida, Lago, Palm Beach
Former U.S. President Donald Trump addresses The Faith and Freedom Coalition's 2023 "Road to Majority" conference in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2023. A spokesman for the Department of Justice declined to comment on Trump's latest broadside against Smith, who was tapped last year to lead multiple criminal investigations involving the former president. Trump indicates that the document has to do with a plan of attack on Iran. Trump's attacks on Smith fit the pattern and style that the former president has employed against many of his other legal and political foes. Ahead of that court appearance in Manhattan, Trump targeted the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, accusing him and his family of being "Trump haters."
Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Trump's, Mark Meadows, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan Organizations: U.S, Department of Justice, Presidential Records, Trump, CNN, White, White House, Manhattan, Attorney Locations: Washington , U.S, United States, Florida, Bedminster , New Jersey, Iran, Manhattan
Judge Aileen Cannon ruled federal prosecutors can't keep a list of potential Trump witnesses secret. Cannon reject special counsel Jack Smith's efforts to file the list of 84 possible witnesses under seal. The Trump-appointed judge noted that a bevy of news organizations, including The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Insider, have also opposed keeping the potential witnesses' names private. As part of the conditions of Trump's release, the former president isn' t allowed to contact the potential witnesses about the case except through his counsel. The former president's own lawyers have strongly indicated that the potential witnesses could include senior officials and people who are still around Trump.
Persons: Aileen Cannon, Trump, Cannon, Jack Smith's, , Jack Smith, Donald Trump's, isn, Waltine Nauta Organizations: The Times, CNN, Service, The New York Times, Washington Post, Street Journal, Trump Locations: Trump, Miami
A group of news organizations asked a federal court Monday to reveal the special counsel's list of 84 witnesses who are prohibited from speaking with former President Donald Trump about the facts of his criminal classified documents case. The request came three days after special counsel Jack Smith, who led the probe into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, moved to file the witness list under seal with the court. Smith noted in a court filing Friday that the Department of Justice has shared a list of those witnesses with the lawyers for Trump and Nauta. The coalition pointed to the First Amendment, common law and the principles of an open judicial system in their appeal to see the witness list. "The filing of the list of potential witnesses in this case is a highly significant initial step in this extraordinary prosecution," they wrote.
Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Aileen Cannon, Trump, Walt Nauta Organizations: Washington Hilton, NBCUniversal Media, CNN, The New York Times, Trump, Department of Justice, DOJ, Government Locations: Washington ,, U.S, West Palm Beach , Florida
June 19 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in Florida on Monday ordered defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump not to release evidence in the classified documents case to the media or the public, according to a court filing. The order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart also put strict conditions on Trump's access to the materials. It also specified that Trump "shall not retain copies" and that he may only review case materials "under the direct supervision of Defense Counsel or a member of Defense Counsel's staff." Trump, who is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was indicted on federal charges earlier this month. He was accused of illegally retaining classified government documents after leaving the White House and then conspiring to obstruct a federal probe of the matter.
Persons: Donald Trump, Bruce Reinhart, Trump, Jack Smith, General Merrick Garland, Douglas Gillison, Kanishka Singh, Chizu Organizations: Defense Counsel's, White House, New, Trump, U.S, Capitol, Thomson Locations: U.S, Florida, United States, New York
Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event following his arraignment on classified document charges, at Trump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., June 13, 2023. A federal judge issued a protective order Monday barring former President Donald Trump from disclosing — or keeping — evidence set to be turned over to him by the government in the classified documents case on social media. The ruling largely tracks with a request for a protective order the government filed in the case on Friday. The government said in that filing that Trump and Nauta's lawyers had "no objections to this motion or the protective order." Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office said those restrictions were necessary because the "risk" that Trump would use the evidence "inappropriately" was "substantial."
Persons: Donald Trump, Walt Nauta, Bruce Reinhart, Blinken, Xi, Trump, Todd Blanche, Nauta, Donald J Organizations: U.S, Trump National Golf Club, Trump, NBC News Spy, NBC News U.S, Materials, Defense Counsel's, New, Prosecutors Locations: Bedminster , New Jersey, U.S, United States, China, New York, Manhattan
DOJ will seek incarceration for Trump, a national security attorney and former US prosecutor say. McClanahan said evidence in the indictment was laid out to show "that this is a kingpin who knowingly broke the law, endangered national security, endangered nuclear weapon security, endangered other countries' national security." In this case, that looks likely to be US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who Trump appointed. It's more likely that, if convicted, he'd be sentenced to house arrest with an ankle monitor, McClanahan said. "Trump can share that information that is in his head whether he is incarcerated or not incarcerated," she said.
Persons: , Donald Trump, Kel McClanahan, Jack Smith's, McClanahan, Jonathan Turley, Chris Christie, Trump, Sarah Krissoff, Pitney, Krissoff, Aileen Cannon, there's, It's, he'd Organizations: Trump, Service, Department, Justice, George Washington University, Fox News, New, New Jersey Gov, Politico, Pitney LLP, of, DOJ, Department of Justice Locations: New Jersey, Southern, of New York, Bedminster , New Jersey
There is no evidence that a circulating screenshot of a purported Truth Social post by former U.S. President Donald Trump attacking his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is authentic. “Well, it looks like Trump got SOME KIND OF bad news RE: The DOJ and Mark Meadows,” read one Facebook post sharing the image (here). Reuters previously debunked a similar fake screenshot of a Truth Social post by Trump created with the same app (here). A search through Trump’s Truth Social profile (here) or archived versions of the same (archive archive.is/sqGDF) did not show any such posts. Reuters found no evidence that any such Truth Social post was published by Donald Trump.
Persons: Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, Meadows, Trump, , Liz, Harrington, Read Organizations: U.S, White House, Reuters, New York Times, DOJ, Trump
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