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Former Florida deputy arrested for planting drugs on drivers during traffic stops
During most of these stops, the deputy would turn off his body camera and “tailor his recordings to conceal his criminal activity,” authorities said.


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July 11, 2019, 4:18 PM EDT
BySafia Samee Ali




A former Florida sheriff's deputy was arrested Wednesday after authorities alleged he planted drugs and falsely charged dozens of innocent motorists after pulling them over under the guise of a minor traffic stop.

Jackson County Deputy Zachary Wester was taken into custody in Crawfordville, about 20 miles south of Tallahassee, after a yearlong investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement revealed that he frequently stopped drivers for minor traffic infractions and then covertly planted methamphetamine and other drugs in their vehicles while conducting a search, authorities said in astatement.

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During most of these stops, Wester would turn off his body camera and “tailor his recordings to conceal his criminal activity,” authorities said. After “finding” the drugs, he would pin motorists with bogus criminal charges and arrest them.

Wester’s actions led prosecutors to drop charges in almost 120 cases that occurred between 2016 and 2018, including one man who lost custody of his daughter as a result of the false arrest.

In October 2017, Benjamin Bowling was falsely charged and arrested by Wester for possessing methamphetamine while driving to the store to pick up diapers, according to the arrest warrant. Florida's child welfare agency had recently awarded Bowling custody of his daughter after being released from prison on a DUI conviction, but as a result of the false arrest, he lost custody of the child.

"There is no question that Wester's crimes were deliberate and that his actions put innocent people in jail," FDLE Pensacola Assistant Special Agent in Charge Chris Williams said in a statement.

Ten special agents and two crime analysts scoured over 1,300 minutes of recorded video and logged more than 1,400 working hours to discover Wester’s nefarious pattern, he said.


Williams said authorities found 42 pieces of drug paraphernalia, 10 baggies of methamphetamine and five baggies of marijuana concealed in an unmarked and unsecured evidence bag in the trunk while searching Wester’s car.

Wester faces 52 counts of various felony charges including racketeering, official misconduct, fabricating evidence, possession of a controlled substance and false imprisonment, as well as misdemeanor perjury, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Authorities began investigating Wester last year at the request of the sheriff's office. He was fired last September.

Wester was booked into the Wakulla County Jail and is being held without bond.

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Mother, boyfriend were high on meth when 3-year-old fell into Virginia river and died: police




By Nelson Oliveira
| New York Daily News |
Jul 12, 2019 | 1:35 PM


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Kimberly Moore and Adrian Puckett were high on meth when Josie Burleson died.

The parents of a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in a river this week were high on meth when she fell into the water, authorities in Virginia said this week.

Josie Burleson was reported missing about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night after her parents said she was playing outside and wandered off, according to a news release by the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office.

A team of over 100 people from multiple agencies searched the area near the New River in Barren Springs for more than five hours and eventually found the girl’s body in the water, authorities said.

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Josie Burleson was just 3 years old. (Wythe County Sheriff’s Office)
Sheriff Keith Dunagan told WSLS-TV that the mother and her boyfriend were under the influence of methamphetamine when they lost sight of their child.

“I believe that the child would be alive today if the adults that were supposed to be supervising weren’t high,” he said.

Kimberly Moore and Adrian Puckett were arrested on felony charges of child neglect with reckless disregard for life and child endangerment. The sheriff’s office said additional charges are possible as the investigation continues.

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Pa. man with tat proclaiming 'Kill Rabbi Max’ seen on video setting fire to holy man’s Brooklyn home: prosecutors

By Cathy Burke
| New York Daily News |
Jul 15, 2019 | 2:16 PM


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Menachem "Matthew" Karelefsky is pictured during his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court on June 16. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)

A Pennsylvania man accused of torching a rabbi’s Brooklyn home in a twisted revenge plot was caught on surveillance setting the blaze, authorities said Monday.

Menachem “Matthew” Karelefsky, 41, of McKeesport, who has “Never let go of the HATRED – KILL Rabbi Max” tattooed on his arm, also was allegedly caught on video buying charcoal and matches the day before the June 13 blaze that erupted at the home of Rabbi Jonathan Max.

The fire spread to two adjacent homes on E. 17th St. near Avenue N in Midwood, injuring 11 people, including a 6-week-old infant.

Karelefsky was arraigned Monday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Martin Murphy on a 17-count indictment charging him with attempted murder, arson and related charges and was ordered held without bail, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.

He could get up to 25 years to life if convicted on the top charge. His next hearing is Sept. 10.


According to Gonzalez, video surveillance from across the street shows Karelefsky setting the fire and video from a Midwood grocery the day before the blaze shows him buying charcoal and matches.

Gonzalez said in the aftermath of the blaze, K9 dogs sniffed out the accelerant under the rabbi’s front porch, where fire marshals found remnants of a Kingsford charcoal bag, charcoal, a plastic milk carton, empty lighter fluid containers, lighter boxes and rags believed to have been drenched in accelerant.

Max, a teacher at Chaim Berlin Yeshiva, says he once helped protect Karelefsky’s estranged wife and children, the Daily News reported last month. “He’s a very, very sick man, and he developed a very good plot," Max said at the time.


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Scam artist who posed as a fed to dupe immigrants gets up to a decade in prison

By Shayna Jacobs
| New York Daily News |
Jul 16, 2019 | 8:42 PM



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Schoen La Bombard is pictured at the defense table in State Supreme on July 15, 2019 in New York. (Alec Tabak/for New York Daily News)

A man who pretended to be a federal agent so he could scam undocumented immigrants out of tens of thousands of dollars was sentenced to up to 10 years behind bars on Tuesday.

Schoen Michael La Bombard, 51, claimed he could help immigrants get legal status, but he had no actual ability to do so and just took their money. Prosecutors said he charged $1,700 in cash per client.

He pleaded guilty last month to grand larceny, scheme to defraud, possession of a forged instrument and criminal impersonation. In court Tuesday, La Bombard declined to speak when given the opportunity by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ellen Biben.

La Bombard “exploited the fears around shifting immigration policy to target primarily Spanish-speaking immigrants with the promise to help them achieve ‘the American Dream,’ " Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. said at the time of the plea.

La Bombard and his partner in crime, Francesca Bradley, 44, fleeced at least 14 people over five months in 2018, pocketing about $24,000. La Bombard said he was special agent “Commander Sean Michael Lombardi" and claimed to be an employee of the Diplomatic Security Service, a division of the U.S. Department of State.

Bradley posed as his “liaison” and helped recruit victims. She previously copped to a count of immigrant assistance services fraud and was sentenced to a year.

Word of the swindle made its way to Make the Road New York, an organization that assists immigrants, and the case was referred to prosecutors for investigation. It was handled by the DA’s Immigrant Affairs Unit.

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Trump sure looks like ‘a fan’ of Jeffrey Epstein in this video — shares joke over ‘she’s hot’ cheerleader

By Dave Goldiner
| New York Daily News |
Jul 17, 2019 | 9:52 AM



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Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

President Trump now claims he was “never a fan” of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

But the cameras tell a different story as a newly unearthed NBC video shows the future president getting chummy with the pervy hedge fund titan at a Mar-a-Lago party with NFL football cheerleaders in 1992.

“Look at her,” a youthful looking Trump mouths to Epstein on the tape, putting his arm around his billionaire buddy. “She’s hot.”

Epstein flashes a wide smile. Then the financier doubles over in laughter as Trump makes another unintelligible remark to him.

The video was shot for an NBC celebrity show. It was billed as a peek inside Trump’s party palace in Palm Beach.

Trump at one point grabs one of the cheerleaders around the waist and gropes her from behind.

Imagine the reaction from Conservatives, GOP, Evangelicals and Fox News if a tape of Obama (whilst married) doing this to a woman at a party came out, and one of the guests at said party was a convicted pedo(!) #Trump #Epstein pic.twitter.com/cYR72SQxmU

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At the time, Trump was a real estate big wig trying to make the jump into entertainment. He hosted a group of cheerleaders from the Buffalo Bills, the team he was trying to purchase.

Epstein was still 15 years away from being charged for paying young girls for sex at his palatial mansion nearby. He got a sweetheart plea deal from then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, a misstep that came back to haunt Acosta when he resigned last week as Trump’s labor secretary.

Trump has insisted he barely knew Epstein from Florida social circles. “I was never a fan,” the president said after Epstein was charged with a string of federal sex trafficking charges.

The tape sure makes the two men look like pals. Trump urges Epstein to “come on in” as the tape rolls, and the pair ogle the gyrating cheerleaders

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Horrific video of woman being pushed onto CTrain tracks shown in court
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Published: July 16, 2019

Updated: July 16, 2019 9:28 PM MDT

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Shocking LRT station surveillance video was played in a Calgary courtroom Tuesday showing a city grandmother being pushed off a platform onto tracks as a CTrain approached.

Members of Rozalia Meichl’s family gasped and wiped away tears as the video showed her falling onto the tracks after she was shoved by Stephanie Lee Favel.

Crown prosecutor Doug Taylor played two different angles of the attack for provincial court Judge Harry Van Harten, in which Favel attacks the stranger for no apparent reason.

One angle shows Meichl being shoved violently off the Victoria Park/Stampede station platform and landing on the back of her head and neck.

In the second clip, a train can be seen arriving at the station as Favel hip checks Meichl, 64, off the platform before LRT security staff quickly move in to arrest her.

That clip also shows Favel appearing to talk to Meichl and her fiancé, Jacques Lamarre.

Lamarre appears to begin to walk away and had his back turned when the attack occurred.

Taylor said a five-year sentence was warranted for Favel, 35, despite her deep remorse and early guilty plea to charges of aggravated assault.

The prosecutor said a psychiatric assessment on Favel by Dr. George Duska found she presented a high risk to re-offend because of her alcohol and drug addictions.

“This was a random attack,” he told Van Harten of the need for a severe punishment.

“This was completely unprovoked, Meichl did nothing … to cause Favel any anger.”

Taylor said the fact a train was pulling into the station as the shove occurred made the crime more serious.

“It appears to be, to a degree, calculated, as the train was just arriving,” he said.

The prosecutor noted the attack caused “catastrophic” injuries to Meichl, who is now partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.

“Her life is completely changed.”

He also said the incident could have a chilling effect on Calgary Transit users.

“This took place on a crowded … transit platform. Calgary is a sprawling, world-class city that relies on public transit,” he said. “(Transit users) think to themselves, ‘am I next?’ ”

But defence lawyer Adriano Iovinelli said a more appropriate punishment would be a sentence of three to 3-1/2 years minus credit for Favel’s remand time, since the incident last Nov. 8.

Van Harten also heard a victim-impact statement from Meichl, read in by her sister as the victim did not attend, and a statement from Favel.

“I am the one that has been given a life sentence confined to this wheelchair, forever dependent on others for my most basic needs,” Meichl wrote.

Favel apologized for her actions, saying she is haunted daily by her actions.

Meichl’s son, Allan Hein, said he appreciated Favel’s remorse, but it didn’t take away the pain from his mother’s injuries.

“Mom still lives in pain daily from it. So the words, although they’re nice to hear, doesn’t undo the damage that has been done.”

Van Harten will hand down a sentence next week.

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Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader indicted on 16 charges, including felony theft in office

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Max Londberg, Jona Ison, Jackie Borchardt and Bob Strickley, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 12:39 p.m. ET June 28, 2019 | Updated 12:48 p.m. ET June 29, 2019
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Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misstated the degree of one of the charges against Charles Reader. He faces first-degree misdemeanor theft.

Charles Reader was indicted Friday on more than a dozen charges stemming from allegations that the Pike County sheriff stole cash seized from cases handled by his office.

Reader faces eight felonies and eight misdemeanors.

Reader was accused in November of stealing cash seized from drug cases handled by the sheriff's office to fund a gambling problem. An anonymous source made the allegation in a complaint that was forwarded to the Ohio Auditor’s Office.

Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk requested a special prosecutor in Reader's case, which was investigated by the Ohio Auditor of State’s Special Investigations Unit, Junk said last month amid a dispute with Reader on Facebook.

Reader lamented then past cuts to his staff and budget cuts to the sheriff's office.

He later removed the posts and issued a follow-up statement that read, in part:

"This is nothing more than a political witch hunt, where the prosecutor is attempting to do everything in his power to 'sink my boat,' " Reader wrote.

His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday afternoon.

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Ohio Auditor Keith Faber said in a statement that the substance of the investigation into Reader ended with "serious results."

"It is our job to hold public officials accountable and root out fraud, waste, and abuse in our communities," Faber said. "We do not take these charges lightly and recognize that no one is above the law. While this is a major step toward seeking justice, our team is fully prepared to present these findings to a jury as this matter moves forward."

A Pike County grand jury returned the 16-count indictment Friday morning. The indictment further details the allegations facing Reader, which include:

  • Two counts of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony
  • Four counts of theft in office, three are fourth-degree felonies and one is a fifth-degree felony
  • Seven counts of conflict of interest, a first-degree misdemeanor
  • One count of securing writing by deception, a fifth-degree felony
  • Two counts of theft - one is a fifth-degree felony and the other is a first-degree misdemeanor
A Pike County Sheriff's Office spokesman issued a brief statement following the announcement of the criminal charges, stating Reader and his staff had no comment.

The statement added that the sheriff's office "would like to ensure the public that the office will continue to provide their normal law enforcement services to the public without interruption."

Reader's criminal case could have a deleterious effect on the prosecution of four members of the Wagner family charged in the Rhoden family massacre, according to legal experts.

"It all comes down to how much he did in that investigation," said Mike Allen, a former top prosecutor of Hamilton County. Allen earlier said he suspected Reader played more than an ancillary role, considering the relatively small size of the Pike County Sheriff's Office.

George “Billy” Wagner, 47; his wife, Angela Wagner, 48; and their two children, George Wagner IV, 27, and Edward “Jake” Wagner, 26, were arrested and charged last fall. The charges were the result of the largest homicide investigation in Ohio history.

The Wagners are accused of killing eight members of the Rhoden family. Officials have said they were motivated by custody of the child of Jake Wagner and one of the victims, 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden.

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"If he (Reader) was intimately involved in (the investigation of the massacre) – with respect to questioning witnesses, taking evidence – that’s a problem," Allen said.

But in a statement, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said Reader's indictment "will have no impact on the Wagner capital murder cases, as Sheriff Reader was not the primary witness for any issue of fact or law."

However, criminal justice experts agree that should Reader be convicted of wrongdoing, it could pose a serious obstacle to the prosecution of the Wagners.

If defense attorneys make a strong case that Reader's credibility is tainted by his potential conviction, "that could give jurors reason to pause and give reasonable doubt," David Singleton, a law professor at Northern Kentucky University and the executive director of the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, earlier told The Enquirer. "It's possible it could make a difference."

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Singleton and other experts stressed that Reader's role in investigating the killings will influence how and whether his own criminal case comes up at the Wagners' trials.

They also stressed that many questions must be answered before the influence, if any, that Reader's alleged wrongdoing has on the Wagner prosecution becomes clear.

A defense attorney, Singleton said, could argue that Reader botched the investigation by rushing through it in order to "shift suspicion away from himself." The Rhoden killings were high-profile and garnered the attention of top law enforcement officials in the state as well as extensive media coverage.

If Reader was a key investigator on the case, which was handled by his sheriff's office and the state's Bureau of Criminal Investigation, it's likely a judge would allow Reader's criminal troubles to be aired at trial before jurors, Singleton said.

He likened such a scenario to the O.J. Simpson trial. Then, Det. Mark Fuhrman, who found crucial evidence in the case, was branded by the defense as a racist. Tapes were played of him using the N-word after he denied he’d said it.

Even if Reader didn't play a significant role in the investigation, his criminal case could still come up in the Wagner cases, said Jean Peters Baker, the top prosecutor of Jackson County in Missouri, a jurisdiction that includes Kansas City.

But in that event, the prosecution may cut Reader's investigative contribution entirely from the case against the Wagners, Peters Baker said.

But if Reader's history does come up at trial, it won't necessarily be a death blow to the state's case against the Wagners.

"Officers are human beings like everybody else," Peters Baker said. "Sometimes juries can weigh it out and decide what kind of credence they want to give."

More: Pike County Facebook tirades reveal concerns about sheriff's credibility in court

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Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader, left, discusses the ongoing investigation into the unsolved killings of eight family members at a news conference Thursday, April 13, 2017, attended by Attorney General Mike DeWine, whose office is leading the investigation. (Photo: AP/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)

Reader's indictment raises questions about the future of his role as a sheriff.

Ohio law outlines the process for suspending public officials charged with felony crimes "relating to official conduct."

A different section of the law outlines the removal of public officials accused more generally of misconduct. Removal is initiated by a complaint that must be signed by at least 15 percent of voters in the most recent governor's election within the jurisdiction in question, in Reader's case, Pike County. For sheriffs, a governor's signature on the complaint can bypass the need for citizen signatures, the law states.

Dan Tierney, spokesman for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, said the office has not yet reviewed the indictment to determine if the statute would be appropriate, though Tierney acknowledged it "could apply in this sort of case."

DeWine, as attorney general, assisted Reader in the investigation of the Rhoden family massacre.

Tierney said the statute regarding suspensions of public officials is more apt in this case.

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That law went into effect in 2005. The first sheriff suspended under the statute was former Shelby County Sheriff Dean Kimpel, in 2012, followed by Kelly in 2014.

Former Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly was suspended before being convicted of 17 felonies in 2015, according to The Athens News.

Athens County sought $85,000 in reparations for salary and benefits paid to Kelly or on his behalf while he was suspended, The News reported. The county eventually settled for about a tenth of that amount.

Months before Kelly was sentenced after pleading guilty to 14 criminal charges including misuse of public funds, Kyle Overmyer was suspended as sheriff of Sandusky County.

Overmyer pleaded guilty in 2016 to felony counts of theft in office, theft of drug take-back boxes and deception of physicians to obtain prescription pain medication.

He was sentenced to four years in prison.

Allen, the former top prosecutor of Hamilton County, added that Reader may voluntarily relinquish his police powers as a result of the charges.

"How are you going to function if the chief law enforcement officer of a county is under indictment?" he said. "I can’t imagine he’d continue in that position."


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07/25/2019 10:24 am ET Updated 21 hours ago
Trump Stood In Front Of Presidential Seal Doctored With Russian Symbol, Golf Clubs
Turning Point USA, the nation’s largest college Republican group, apparently projected the image at its summit by mistake.

By Hayley Miller

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President Donald Trump stood in front of a fake presidential seal doctored to feature golf clubs and resemble Russia’s coat of arms while taking the stage at a conference for young Republicans on Tuesday.

Turning Point USA, the nation’s largest group of college Republicans, hosted the president at its summit in Washington and appears to have accidentally projected the fake seal onto the stage where Trump spoke.

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“It was a last-minute A/V mistake — and I can’t figure out where the breakdown was — but it was a last minute throw-up, and that’s all it was,” a spokesman for TPUSA told The Washington Post. “I can’t figure out who did it yet. ... I don’t know where they got the image from.”

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The spokesman told the Post that an audiovisual team made up of TPUSA members and hotel staff was responsible for the projections behind Trump during the summit.

CNN reported Thursday that TPUSA fired one of its audiovisual team members over the incident. A TPUSA source told the outlet that the aide had done a Google search for the official presidential seal to project at the summit but mistakenly used an image of the doctored seal that came up in the search.

The true presidential seal was on the lectern where Trump delivered a roughly 80-minute speech that stoked racial divisions and included lies about a group of Democratic congresswomen of color known as “the Squad.” It was also projected behind him as he was introduced onstage, along with the words “President Donald J. Trump.”

But the image projected on the screen to Trump’s right featured the doctored version of the seal. It resembled the official seal, but the American bald eagle in the center of it had two heads ― like Russia’s coat of arms ― instead of the usual one.

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testified on Capitol Hill a day after the TPUSA summit about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, whether Trump’s campaign had attempted to coordinate with the Kremlin, and if the president had obstructed justice.

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On the official seal, the banner above the eagle says “E pluribus unum,” a Latin phrase meaning “out of many, one.” But the banner on the fake seal says “45 es un títere,” which translates in Spanish to “45 is a puppet.”

The eagle’s left talons in the doctored seal also appear to clutch a set of golf clubs instead of the 13 arrows it holds in the official version.

The president famously loves to golf, having spent twice as many days on the links as of May than President Barack Obama did at the same point in his first term. Trump’s golf outings have cost taxpayers over $100 million so far.

As one HuffPost reader pointed out, the eagle’s right talons are clasping cash, instead of the usual olive branch in the official seal.

“We never saw the seal in question before it appeared in the video,” White House spokesman Judd Deere told HuffPost in a statement. “For anything further, you would need to contact Turning Point ― it was their event.”

TPUSA did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, told the Post that the incident was “careless” and blamed Trump White House staffers for not having more involvement in the event.

“You should have control over what the private group is doing, what they’re putting on the screen and anything else,” Painter said. “To let someone project something on the screen that isn’t controlled by the White House is pretty stupid.”

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