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The Trump Administration Is Arresting Judges Now (Hour 1)
The Todd Allbaugh Show · Fri Apr 25, 2025
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But right now I want to get to breaking news of the day.
Our friend and colleague Jane McNair and Greg Bach on McNair on air along with our news director at WAUK in Waukesha, Racine were the first ones to talk about this this morning on Jane's show.
It's been a fluid story throughout the morning and wanting to pick up on this.
Our friend Matt Flynn is standing by
in Milwaukee, we're going to go to him to help us suss all this out and understand it in just a moment.
But I want to start out kind of putting the story in context and where I'm going to start from is a great story.
by CBS News, Scott McFarland, great reporter, tells it right down the middle.
Honestly, he covers the federal courts, all done a lot of stuff on January 6th to other places.
Scott McFarland really puts this in the context at CBS News.
So that's where I'm going to start and we're going to bring Matt in.
So this is from the CBS story.
The FBI this morning arrested a Wisconsin county judge
on obstruction charges accusing her of preventing the arrest of a man by immigration authorities during a federal law enforcement operation at her courthouse.
FBI Director Cash Patel said Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan
quote, intentionally misdirected federal agents away, unquote, from an immigrant who is in the US illegally and was set to be arrested.
Gonna step away from the story a minute.
He put this out on Twitter this morning, has since taken it down.
But, of course, you know, once things are on Twitter, they're always there.
Back to the CBS story.
Patel said that this man, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, was later arrested and is currently being detained.
Dugan was arrested at eight o'clock this morning at the courthouse where Dugan works.
According to a federal law enforcement source, she was charged with two counts of its obstruction and released from detention after making an initial appearance in federal court.
Now, I'm going to paraphrase this next part.
There was a sworn statement by the FBI agent this guy had been deported from the US back in 2013.
The allegation is he illegally re-entered the US again and had been in court for allegedly committing battery.
Back to the story.
After a fingerprint match from Flores Ruiz's first arrest in 2013 and a local case in Milwaukee, a warrant for his arrest and deportation was issued by ICE.
This next part is important.
While Flores Ruiz was scheduled to appear before Dugan in a criminal court appearance, law enforcement waited outside her courtroom to arrest him on an administrative warrant.
Matt Flynn's going to explain the importance of that in a minute.
Back to the story.
The FBI agent said in a statement that, quote, arrest team members reported that while waiting outside of the courtroom, a woman approached and took photos of arrest team members, unquote, just before Flores Ruiz arrived at the courthouse with his attorney.
A courtroom deputy told the FBI agent that the woman who took the photos of the arrest team showed the pictures to Judge Dugan while she was on the bench in her courtroom, and, quote, Dugan became visibly angry, commented that the situation was absurd, left the bench, and entered chambers, unquote.
Judge Dugan then approached the arrest team with another judge in the public hallway, quote.
Witnesses uniformly reported that Judge Dugan was visibly upset and had a confrontational angry demeanor, unquote, the agent wrote.
Dugan, according to witnesses, told the arrest team to go to the chief judge's office to speak with them about the permissibility of making the arrest inside the courthouse and looked around the hallway near her courtroom to seek out other law enforcement officers who are waiting to arrest Florez Ruiz.
One agent, who Dugan did not recognize as part of the arrest team, remained in the hallway waiting for the suspect.
After that, the special agent said multiple witnesses in Dugan's courtroom saw her say, quote, wait, come with me, unquote, to Flores-Louise.
He headed towards the public courtroom exit where the officers were waiting, quote, Judge Dugan then escorted Flores-Louise to his counsel or end his counsel.
out of the courtroom through a quote, unquote, jury door, which leads to a non-public area of the courthouse, unquote, the agent wrote, adding that Dugan also instructed the man's attorney to also leave the courtroom through that door.
Agents later spotted Florez or Lee's, quote, looking around the hallway, unquote, in the courthouse and followed him out of the courthouse where a foot chase ensued and he was arrested.
Dugan's arraignment is set.
for May 15th.
I wanted to set that stage as being reported by CBS News at this hour.
Scott McFarland, a great reporter.
And remember, a lot of that is according to the FBI.
who is part of this whole deal, to make sense of it, to put it down there where the chickens can get at it.
Our friend always says history is being made every moment of every day.
Let's go to the front lines of history.
Matt Flynn, an attorney and author, a veteran of the United States Navy and one of our friends as well, a former chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
Two times, by the way, Matt, thanks for being here.
I always love being on the Todd Olbo show.
And this is a very, very concerning story.
And I want to say right from the outset, I know Judge Dugan.
I have supported her and I have known her for years.
She's a very fine judge.
She's very, very honest.
She's committed no crime.
And let's just explain real briefly the result of what happened.
First of all, this is an administrative warrant.
It wasn't a judicial warrant.
An administrative warrant is issued by, in this case, ICE or the Naturalization Department.
without any judicial oversight whatsoever.
Ice has been corrupt.
Now, many ice agents are very fine people, but at the highest levels, they've been corrupted.
You take something like Kash Patel.
Kash Patel, I don't believe, really has American values.
He sort of reminds me of Narendra Modi's Hindu Nationalist Party values, frankly.
So what they do is they come to the thing.
She tells him to leave go to the chief judge's office judge Ashley who also somebody I know and They they many leave but one of them slightly stays behind She then goes in and she says to the guy and his lawyer Leave by that exit.
There's nothing wrong with that.
She can control her courtroom I litigated and walk you for 40 years and the whole issue of cameras in the courtroom who can go in the courtroom is up to the judge
is up to the judge.
These people should not be going into the courthouse, much less a courtroom.
So she did it.
She didn't mislead anybody.
And now they, as an intimidation tactic, have charged her with two felonies in federal court.
And she is innocent.
She has committed no crime.
And I think you're going to find people, including judges, will be uniformly supportive of her.
Let's go back to a second to this guy, Flores Ruiz, who was the
the guys are going after the FBI.
So he's here apparently on not, he's not in, help me understand this.
He was not going to judge Dugan's courtroom on any sort of immigration charges.
It was a separate allegation of battery that he had done.
Apparently, according to the reporting by CBS, he at one time at least was undocumented and is accused of coming back in undocumented.
But this has nothing to do, correct me if I'm wrong,
with whether this guy is legal or illegal or keeping people in or out, this has to do with the sanctity of law in a Wisconsin courtroom.
Am I right about that?
When a judge in Wisconsin controls her own courtroom, it's as simple as that.
And if someone is disruptive or there's something she thinks is wrong, she can control it.
She did control it.
She personally went out.
didn't mislead anybody.
She said, get out of here and go to Judge Ashley's office.
He's the chief judge.
They all went away, but one, he sneakily stuck around.
They did not have a judicial warrant.
They had a warrant, quote, warrant that was simply signed by one of their team, by one of Cash Patel's team.
And then she went back in and said, you can leave by this exit.
She can decide whatever exit she wants to have them leave.
None of their business.
There's none of their business.
Then they went off and they finally caught the guy.
This is absolutely of a piece with everything Trump is doing and all of his cabinet, which is to try to intimidate American citizens in this case.
Hannah Dugans an American citizen in a highly regarded judge.
New reporting from Dan Bice, the journal Sentinel at this hour, Milwaukee says a new statement from Hannah Dugan, quote, Judge Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge.
Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously and looks forward to being exonerated, unquote, new statement from Judge Dugan as reported by Dan Bice at this hour, Matt.
And remember something.
This was not a judicial warrant.
If they want to arrest me, a judge can write a warrant and that's a very substantial thing.
An administrative warrant is somebody within the agency.
In this case, this agency has shown its colors, its invading courtrooms, and some guy signs it and says, okay, this is a warrant.
Well, it does not trump Judge Dugan's power over her own courtroom.
And she can she she comported herself absolutely lawfully and absolutely by extending new process.
But a minute left here before the first break.
I'm going to come back in here from US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is already on the conservative airwaves talking about this after the break.
But I want you to talk for a minute here, explain the latitude.
that a judge has in the state of Wisconsin over their courtroom, because it's fairly broad and I don't think a lot of people understand this.
If there's someone disruptive, they can send them out.
In this case, ICE was being disruptive by coming in without judicial authorization and about to interfere with her court.
The cases that I had, I would try to get TV cameras in for TV stations.
The judge can decide.
If they don't want them in there, out you go.
Out you go.
And so in this particular case Judge Duggan acted with restraint and absolutely she has control of her courtroom.
or we'd have a circus, and what's going on here is sort of a Putin tactic of trying to intimidate judges.
That's what's going on here.
Yeah, absolutely.
We're gonna come back, so we say we have Attorney General, US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Fox News this morning talking about this case and allegations against all judges.
What does this mean, not just for these judges, but what is Trump really up to here?
What does cash patel up here?
Is this up to?
Is this intimidation?
And what does it mean for us as Wisconsinites?
We'll come back, discuss it with our friend,
Matthew J. Flynn, attorney of Milwaukee, our friend of ours.
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Matt Flynn, attorney at Milwaukee.
a two-time chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
Great author, by the way.
We'll talk about that some other time.
Matt, we always like to talk about some of the books he's written, but he's here today in helping us understand what's going on in Milwaukee.
This breaking news first reported by our colleagues, Jane Matinair and Greg Baca along with Stuart J. Waddles on Matinair on air this morning.
They were right on top of this as soon as it happened and went through this story on CBS News.
Scott McFarland, who's a longtime judicial reporter, I think put this in great context, Matt.
And talking about this arrest this morning in Milwaukee County Courthouse of a of this judge Judge Hannah Dugan Circuit, Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge who had this guy in her courtroom who the the feds alleges here illegally, but he was in there for for an alleged battery charge to talk about that and
And so the feds show up, the FBI, ICE whatnot, and Cash Patel puts out this tweet this morning, the head of the FBI, and since deleted it, and basically calling for Judge Dugan to, not basically, did call for Judge Dugan, and she got arrested.
The allegation is that somehow she helped this individual who is alleged to be undocumented slip away by saying, hey, exit my courtroom for a certain door.
And just like what happened with Trump rounding up alleged Venezuelan gang members and sending them to a sea cot, this high security, almost gulag-type prison in El Salvador, Matt, it seems to me, again, this isn't so much about whether, you know, look, I'm not for people being here, quote unquote, illegally.
I think we should have strong borders.
It's not about that to me.
in the case against the folks going to El Salvador, due process.
Whether you're a citizen or not, Constitution guarantees due process.
And here in this case now, with the judge in Milwaukee, Matt, it seems to me this is not about whether this individual happens to be quote unquote legal or illegal, but it's about Ken, the head of the FBI in the United States of America, just out rounding up and arresting judges for seemingly trumped up charges pun intended.
Just exactly what she said.
I know nothing about this defendant.
He may be a bad guy, and he maybe should be deported consistent due process.
In this case, they're not just going after him.
They're going after the judge.
And the judge was very upfront.
She came walking out of her courtroom, and she said, stay the hell out of my courtroom.
Get out of the courthouse.
And if you have a problem with that, go to see Carl Ashley, the chief judge.
That's what they should
whole bunch of them went to see him but one sort of lay in the weeds and to stay back there and she went into the courtroom and told the lawyer and Apparently told the lawyer and the defendant you can leave by that door.
That's her right It's her courthouse.
It's her courtroom.
That is her right.
I've litigated in those courthouses for a long time now
She had no obligation to go out in the court and say, oh, you snuck around and you're still hanging here.
You look suspicious.
That's OK.
Why don't you do whatever the hell you want in my court?
That's not what Wisconsin law says.
What they are doing, the Trump administration is having people like Cash Patel and it could be somebody like Kristi Noem next time sign a piece of paper that say, go grab this guy.
And that's what?
Good?
Well, first of all, it's not good.
It's not depressed.
But secondly,
And if you don't turn them over, we'll arrest the judge.
I don't think
so.
on that one.
We're going to get to that minute.
Senator, U.S.
Senator Tammy Baldwin has already put out a statement before we do that.
Want to play this cut this is from Fox News just a few moments ago US Attorney General Pam Bondi was on there and they're asking her not just about Judge Dugan who was arrested in Milwaukee but another judge on on similar kind of made-up charges because in the eyes of the Trump administration They're not adhering to what they think they should and and so Fox News asked US Attorney General Pam Bondi about this.
Here's what she said
What's happened to our judiciary is beyond me.
Yeah, so when when the American public hears this and they think these were once upstanding people in their communities and and there are professions and they put it all on the line for this and have you
to their motive, like what inspired them to carry out these acts and harbor criminals?
They're deranged is all I can think of.
I cannot believe I think some of these judges think they are beyond and above the law and they are not and we're sending a very strong message today.
If you are harboring a fugitive, we don't care who you are.
If you are helping hide one, if you are giving a TDA member guns, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and we will prosecute.
We will find you.
Matt Flynn, that from U.S.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, the supposed top law enforcement person in the United States of America, that to me sounds chilling.
I mean, a person with that much power and standing to say, we're going to come after you and find you.
If I
were Hannah Dugan, I would sue her for defamation for large damages for saying that she harbored a criminal and that she was deranged or whatever else was said.
There's absolutely false.
Pam Bondi.
is not, in my view, a legitimate attorney general.
She's sort of a bond girl.
She was hired for her appearance, just like Heg Seth was for his appearance.
These people have absolutely no ability whatsoever.
And she got on there and she just lied.
She didn't harbor a criminal.
Hannah Dugan didn't harbor anybody.
Hannah Dugan has what's called a courtroom.
And the defendants in what's called the courtroom.
And Hannah Dugan said to people, get the hell out of my courtroom.
And then she told the guy they could leave by a certain door.
It was absolutely false what Pam Bondi just said.
I don't know who this other judge is they're talking about.
But if Trump thinks that he's going to start having people like Pam Bondi and Cash Patel sign pieces of paper that say warrants at the top and therefore their committee felonies, baloney, we're not going to put up with
that.
Yeah.
Matt, I really appreciate your time on short notice coming in and helping us explain this because I.
Think in moments like this, when rhetoric gets turned up, we need to focus on the law, what the law says, and follow that.
And nobody does it better.
I appreciate you, my friend.
Thanks for being here today.
Good to be with you Chad, always.
Thank you so very much.
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Want to talk about tariffs a little bit but from a different perspective reports today that President Donald Trump going to dial back More of the tariffs particularly on China And what hasn't been talked a lot about Part of some people will say well, you know, he's his internal economists came in said well, they're probably not the right thing to do What has not been talked about is earlier this week
Some of the big guys, I think they're all guys from places like Amazon and then more so Target and some of these big box stores came in for a private meeting with Trump and said, yeah, here's the thing about all these tariffs on China.
By summer, these store shelves will be empty because most of our things we put in Target and Walmart and the big box stores,
come from China.
And that seemed to resonate because Trump, if you draw him a picture, you understand, he gets those things.
In crown.
Well, yeah.
And so he, so he said that probably would not be a good look on Twitter.
So he's reconsidering this.
This is a great thread on Twitter this week from Ryan Pedersen.
And for those listening from Richland Center, no, not that Ryan Pedersen.
Great guy, by the way, Ryan Pedersen.
This is a different Ryan Pedersen.
Maybe he pronounces it Peterson, I'm not sure.
Founder and CEO of Flexport had a great take on this.
He writes, in the three weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down 60% industry-wide.
Get this the US imports 600 billion with a B billion dollars worth of goods from China every year 95% of that Via ocean freight Those goods sell at retail for two trillion dollars So think about that all the goods annually that come into the United States They sell at retail for two trillion dollars
Peterson writes if the tariffs on China continue at the current levels We would see a two trillion dollar hit to the economic activity in our country the failure of tens of thousands of American businesses and the laying off of millions of employees We'll also have mass shortages this summer as goods don't show up the first ships carrying goods paying the duties
arrived on Monday, this past Monday, and the decline in freight arrivals will hit in the coming weeks.
Company is stocked up on inventory in anticipation of April 2nd's tariffs, so it'll take a while before the shortages hit.
If Trump reverses course very soon, he could head off the worst of this catastrophe, but every day it gets worse.
With bookings down 65% ocean carriers cancelled 25% of their salings from China the last two weeks Those ships are already being repositioned to other trade lanes So again step away from Peterson's writing What he's saying is you know because of what Trump has already done
If he doesn't reverse it which now he's talking today, he might a two trillion hit to the economy in retail sales over the course of a year and That bookings so what happens is you have you know all these all these big carrier ships that call all of our Crap from China that we that we buy myself included at Walmart and Target and
even true value even even our local some some of our local mom and pop stores look at the bottom it says made in china all right so all that stuff has to come on a container ship there's no railway that carries it no semis i guess some select things come via plane but the vast majority comes via containers and these it when we say containers so on these great big huge barges that are blocks long
are these containers.
The containers are basically railway cars.
So think of how big a car is on a train, on a carrier train or a cargo train.
Well, those are called containers and that carries all the stuff from China on a ship here.
They get taken off the ship and they get put on a railroad car and then some of them get onto 18-wheelers and whatnot and that's how it gets into our local stores.
So these container ships, many of them are owned by private carriers.
So bookings are already down 65%.
And ocean carriers have canceled 25% of the bookings already.
All right?
So back to this long thread by Ryan Peterson, really informative.
He writes, quote, soon,
We may find ourselves in a bullwhip scenario where Trump relaxes the tariffs, but all those canceled orders get rebooked, creating a huge surge.
And with all the canceled services and repositioned vehicles, get this, there won't be enough throughout the pipeline in the ocean network to keep up.
The result.
will be surging prices on the ocean perhaps higher than we saw in 2024 when the Red Sea was cut off for shipping.
And approaching levels from 2021-2022 when container rates from China to the US hit $20,000 each.
Air freight rates also surged that year as just 1% of ocean freight volume being converted to air is enough to send prices
above $10,000 a kilo as we saw during COVID.
He writes, it's a strange time in the logistics world as we have to plan for the unimaginable while hedging for regression to the mean, basically mean relatively normal trade relations.
He writes, thankfully, we're all well versed in operating in crisis mode here at his company called Flexport.
It's why we'll likely be working in this industry.
We have learned to run tight Observe observation oriented decide act loops.
That's that's for people in logistics.
They those people get that But basically what he's saying here if you boil it all down to look what he's written This is the guy who deals in this industry That because of this self-inflicted wound by Donald Trump ie these unprecedented tariffs
Even if he starts relaxing it and reversing it today or the coming days, which is good We're probably still going to see either a a shortage of goods this summer and or higher prices at the stores Because of the short-sightedness and self-infliction wound of Donald Trump because these ships that carry all of our stuff to us
25% of them have already booked with other clients around the world.
So you can't just undo that in a moment.
It's going to take time already for the shipping industry to go back to some semblance of normal.
And in the meantime, we're going to have goods sitting in ports in China that can't get here, and those goods that are here, prices are going to go up.
I just think it's important that we understand this because we're going to hear a lot of lies and rhetoric in the coming weeks and months as prices go up and goods aren't here.
Blaming Democrats, probably Joe Biden, I think it's important to pause and reflect the real reason why these things are happening.
And the really important thing is none of this had to happen.
It is the fault.
It is the actions of one person, Donald Trump, to bring these tariffs on the United States that's going to cause all of this havoc.
And none of it is good.
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Because right now, I mean, you know, you go to the storage, everything looks fine.
We'll see we'll see if that continues on through the summer Want to touch on a couple of things because there's we don't and again I get it a lot of this stuff is to distract us, right?
From what's really happening in Congress, but I also feel like some of this stuff.
We have to also talk about But I do want to take a few minutes major things ahead for Congress and we're going to continue to talk about it on Monday Congress and recess right now
One of the things Congress has to keep their eye on the ball is recessions Congress expects to get president Donald Trump's list of suggested cuts From current spending sometime this week.
Well the week's running out We're told by a familiar source these are known as Recisions I should I think I said recessions recisions What what could the cost of recisions be?
Punch ball is on it
Great news source, by the way.
We'll talk about that when we come back.
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Recisions, I think I said recessions.
I really do need to get new glasses soon.
Congress sending President Donald Trump a list of suggested cuts from current spending.
This is from Punchbowl News.
This is not just the new budget, but this is from current spending.
So these rescisions differ from the traditional cuts considered by Congress, whereby lawmakers usually vote on the next year's spending.
But here,
President Trump expected to propose cuts to current spending, including possibly eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which would affect some 1,500 local public media stations, as well as national public radio and public broadcasting, PBS, which includes PBS News, Sesame Street, amongst others.
Once Trump proposes the rescissions, Congress has 45 legislative days to either accept them or amend them.
Otherwise, his request lapses and the next funding or the funding rather stays intact.
So while we're hearing all of these kind of more politically media sexy stories, we have to keep our eyes on what's happening in the halls of Congress to see what they're doing to possibly
make cuts there.
Another thing we have to look at more next week, reconciliation.
Last we left Republican lawmakers, they have passed the first critical step toward expanding and extending Donald Trump's tax cuts, a budget resolution.
This blueprint opens up the reconciliation process that allows Republicans to pass tax cuts and some other agenda items, though the Senate, or rather through the Senate, with a simple majority vote.
They do not have significant time if they want to make their deadline.
The budget resolution sets a May 9th deadline for committees to write the tax cut portion of their next larger bill.
Doing this will not be easy.
The budget resolution left most of the hard questions unanswered.
Amongst them, how much spending must be cut and where the cuts come from?
How much should the debt ceiling increase?
and which tax cuts should be added for whom and for how long.
In other words, it's the nitty gritty.
It's the details, right?
Devil's always in the details.
So while the big story is making news, we have to keep our eyes on that.
There's these things that are happening in Congress that really affect you and I as taxpayers and what happens in our daily lives.
Also the future of Medicaid we'll get to that next week as well eight five five seven five two four eight four two Let's go quickly to Rick in walkie-shaw listening on WA UK Rick you want to talk about terrace?
What's a
yeah,
Todd?
I got some thought on this Have you ever heard of a pipeline bubble?
I am not Okay, what this is is in the oil industry when they have one pipeline
And they have multiple products.
They'll put a wash bubble through there.
They'll clean the pipe and empty it and then change the product.
Got it.
Okay.
So that's a pipeline bubble.
And what I'm wondering is if this situation is intentional to help the oil industry for some payback in the shipping.
And then also I'm wondering
if this tariff, you know, the oil industry is going to start having trouble because China has built this huge dam and they're going to start producing a lot of electricity.
So, you know, there, there's a reason that maybe this is all going on.
Yeah.
The story, I appreciate the call, Rick.
Thank you so very much.
We were talking about earlier is the tariffs more so on, on produced goods, not so much energy.
But things like, you know, I don't know, summer times coming like beach balls that we buy for the kids at the beach or or coolers, almost all that stuff's produced in China.
And it all comes across on a container ship.
And so now this story we were talking about Ryan Peterson here posted on on acts, a guy who works in the industry is saying that, you know, 25% of the ships that normally carry that stuff because of the Trump tariffs, they're already reassigned to other places.
So even if Trump relaxes some of these tariffs on goods from China, it may not even be able to get them on ships in time to get here for the summer into the fall.
It takes time to set all this stuff up.
But interestingly enough, thought there, Rick, on industry and oil as well.
Of course, under Biden, we're now our own largest oil producer here in the United States.
We have a lot of energy.
And of course, you incorporate green energy, expanding solar and wind into that as well.
But Rick, you bring up an interesting point.
We'll have to look into that.
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But we're going to keep on top of this.
As we said, lots of things coming as Congress gets back into session in the future of Medicaid.
Also, nomination holds.
Lots of people that have been put on hold for
for nominees from President Trump, so all that to come next week.
And of course, Summer is with you in two days in today's news cycle.
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It's truly anything.
Anything.
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