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Conservative Pundit Candace Owens Says She’s Embarrassed She Supported Trump

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The MAGA base is split over President Trump’s recent foreign policy moves…

Popular conservative pundit Candace Owens said she’s “embarrassed” she supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election following his decision to bomb multiple nuclear facilities in Iran.

“This is not the candidate that I voted for,” Owens told Morgan in a wide-ranging interview on his YouTube show Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Owens has long been a supporter of the president and was among the many prominent media supporters that urged Trump to stay out of the conflict. This faction of the MAGA movement noted that Trump campaigned on extracting the United States from foreign conflicts, and clashed with pro-war supporters of the president like Laura Loomer, who recently dubbed Owens, “Tehran Candy.”

“It’s all of the same rhetoric dating back to 9/11. All of the same tactic trying to smear people who are against this war as ‘jihadists,’” Owens told Morgan, arguing that conflict between Israel and Iran was “simply not our business.”

“There was no imminent threat to the United States when Trump made this decision to do what Bibi wanted,” Owens said, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This was not Trump’s decision it was Bibi Netanyahu’s decision. And that is the reason that he did it. We’re very aware that Israel is dictating our foreign policy, and we’d now like that to stop.”

Owens, who first voiced opposition to the United States’ potential bombing last week, said she now sees her support of Trump in a different light.

“He’s been a chronic disappointment,” said Owens. “And I feel embarrassed that I told people to go vote for him because this wasn’t going to happen and it is happening.”

Owens said there was “no imminent threat” to the United States while slamming Trump’s Sunday strikes. However, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and others have alleged that Iran was nowhere near obtaining nuclear weapon capability, which the president adamantly denied.

“I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Tuesday.

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Other well-known voices within the MAGA base have also criticized the President’s recent move against Iran.

Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) engaged in an explosive argument with Fox News host Mark Levin online which eventually spilled over to another interview on One America News.

Speaking to OAN’s The Matt Gaetz Show, Greene stepped up the MAGA civil war by laying into Levin and questioning his support for President Donald Trump.

The two conservatives have clashed over Levin’s support Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, while Greene has opposed it. She told CNN on Monday: “I got elected on the exact same campaign promises that President Trump got elected on. We promised: no more foreign wars, no more regime change.”

Earlier in the day, she wrote in a lengthy post on X that Trump’s decision to authorize US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend “feels like a complete bait and switch” on the MAGA agenda.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Stirs GOP Infighting With Latest Attack On ‘Screeching’ Fox News Host

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It’s a war of words…

Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) engaged in an explosive argument with Fox News host Mark Levin online which eventually spilled over to another interview on One America News.

Speaking to OAN’s The Matt Gaetz Show, Greene stepped up the MAGA civil war by laying into Levin and questioning his support for President Donald Trump.

The two conservatives have clashed over Levin’s support Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, while Greene has opposed it. She told CNN on Monday: “I got elected on the exact same campaign promises that President Trump got elected on. We promised: no more foreign wars, no more regime change.”

Earlier in the day, she wrote in a lengthy post on X that Trump’s decision to authorize US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend “feels like a complete bait and switch” on the MAGA agenda.

Greene was asked if Trump risks alienating his MAGA base to which the Republican lawmaker acknowledged a “very big divide” among Republican voters, noting younger generations are more “skeptical.”

“We’ve been lied to too many times, and I think it’s right to be skeptical,” she said.

The Fox News host has also been taking shots at Greene on his X account, including one from earlier this month that read, “Who died and named Marjorie Taylor Greene the queen of MAGA?… You’re a little known politician from Georgia. Hate to break the news to you. We’re Team Trump. Go Trump!”

On Monday, Greene told Gaetz, “I can’t believe that Fox News allows one of their hosts to go around and call me names on his social media. That is so unprofessional and it really speaks to what kind of media company Fox News is.”

“Mark Levin, obviously, he was a NeverTrumper from the beginning,” she said. “He hated Donald Trump. He was totally against him and tried to stop him from becoming president, but yet now somehow Mark Levin is the voice of MAGA?”

She continued, “I don’t think so, Matt. You and I, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, all of us have been fighting hard to stay on these America-first policies and stay out of foreign wars. We’re MAGA, we’re the voice of MAGA, and the people totally agree with us.”

The Georgia lawmaker then attacked Levin’s speaking voice and ratings.

“It doesn’t matter what Mark Levin actually has to say. People don’t watch his show. I don’t know anyone that watches his show, and his screeching is absolutely unbearable, but I think Fox News needs to reel him in, although I won’t expect much out of them.”

Greene also criticised Fox’s ongoing coverage of the Middle East conflict.

Levin responded to Greene’s comments on his own radio show on Monday. “Marjorie Taylor Greene has to be one of the dumbest people that ever served in the House of Representatives. The stupidity that comes out of that woman’s mouth is hard to imagine,” he said.

He then continued to double down on X account on Monday: “MTG, God are you stupid,” he wrote. “And you keep banging your head against the wall. Thankfully, POTUS ignored you and hit the Iranian nuclear sites. You seem very upset about it. I’m not going away. You’re on my radar.”

In an earlier spat on X on Monday, the pair had argued over their opposing thoughts on the bombing of Iran.

As the pair exchanged posts, Levin hit back to Greene, “You should come out from under your rock more often. The fact that you say you don’t know anyone who was killed by Iran is a damnable and contemptible libel to say about those who have died at their hands. As if they never existed. They have names. They have families.”

He concluded, “You can post as many one-liners as your small brain produces, but it doesn’t change the fact that you’re despicable.”

Trump Says He Rejected Putin’s Offer to Help Negotiate Israel-Iran Conflict

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Trump is not quite ready to get his hands dirty…

On Wednesday, President Trump said he had declined an offer from Russian leader Vladimir Putin to help with negotiations with Iran and Israel.

President Donald Trump spoke about the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict during an impromptu press conference on the White House lawn on Wednesday after he visited with some construction workers putting up new flag poles on the ground.

At one point in the exchange, Trump boasted about the U.S. achieving dominance over Iran’s skies before pivoting to discuss a recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I mean, they’re totally defenseless. They have no air defense whatsoever. They’re totally captured. You know, we’ve totally captured the air,” Trump said of Iran’s airspace.

Trump then called on a reporter for another question, who asked, “Mr. President, you’ve been fairly compassionate towards the Iranian people—”

“I know a lot of people from Iran, from New York, from Washington, mostly from New York. They are incredible people. They’re smart, they’re energetic, they can be difficult, but so can you. You know, they are great people, smart people. And those people are getting the hell beat out of them now. And it’s really a shame. It’s so stupid. It’s stupid. This is another one. You know, Russia-Ukraine is so stupid, would have never happened if I was president,” Trump replied.

“You guys agree with that, right?” added the president, turning to the construction workers for reassurance.

“Would have never happened if I were president. Putin wouldn’t have done it. And I spoke to him yesterday, and I said, you know, he actually offered to help mediate. I said, ‘Do me a favor. Mediate your own. Let’s mediate Russia first, OK?’ I said, ‘Vladimir. Let’s mediate Russia first. You can worry about this later.’ But I think that’s going to work out, too, but so many people have been killed. The big thing with that one is far more people are dead than have been reported in the Ukraine-Russia. Many, many more people. A building falls down, they say nobody was hurt, you know. So, it’s ridiculous,” Trump concluded.

A different reporter then asked, “What does ‘unconditional surrender’ mean?”

“Well, you know what it means, ‘unconditional surrender.’ Two very simple words. A very simple, ‘unconditional surrender.’ That means I’ve had it. Okay, I’ve had it, I give up, no more. Then we go blow up all the nuclear stuff that’s all over the place there. No, they had bad intentions. You know, for 40 years they’ve been saying, ‘Death to America, Death to Israel,’ death to anybody else that they didn’t like,” Trump replied

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The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected President Donald Trump’s calls for unconditional surrender on Wednesday.

“It isn’t wise to tell the Iranian nation to surrender,” he posted to X. “What should the Iranian nation surrender to? We will never surrender in response to the attacks of anyone. This is the logic of the Iranian nation. This is the spirit of the Iranian nation.”

In another tweet, he criticized Trump for his “absurd rhetoric” and “demands that the Iranian people surrender to him,” adding that he should “make threats against those who are afraid of being threatened. The Iranian nation isn’t frightened by such threats.”

So far, Israel has killed at least 20 of Iran’s top military leaders, damaged key nuclear facilities, destroyed more than a third of Iran’s missile launchers, and hit over 1,100 targets around Iran.

Liberal News Hosts In Hot Water Over Insulting Comments About Trump Wives

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First Lady Melania Trump participates in the Senate Spouses Luncheon at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, May 21,2025. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross mocked First Lady Melania Trump during a CNN debate on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown with some thinly-veiled sexual innuendo about “unique talent.”

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On Tuesday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, anchor Abby Phillip hosted a panel that included Cross, Shermichael Singleton, Ana Kasparian, Ana Navarro, and Jim Schultz to discuss Trump’s immigration policy, specifically the increase in deportations under his watch.

Cross let loose on Melania as a “former nude model” who scored an “Einstein visa” of dubious merit, and on White House senior adviser Stephen Miller as a “White nationalist” running the show:

SCHULTZ: It’s inaction by Congress as to versus to why he starts, you know, thinking about it this way. You know, he has to almost legislate from the executive branch on this because no one’s doing anything about it.

PHILLIP: He could also — he could also —

SCHULTZ: Close the border.

PHILLIP: But, you know, he could also lead — he could also lead and say, hey, Congress — that my party controls and the House and the Senate. Put a bill together. Put something on the table because —

CROSS: He has a — people loyal — anyone of the people would have —

UNKNOWN: I don’t think he’d get a bill passed. I don’t think he would get a bill passed.

CROSS: I don’t think it’s even an effort to do that. But I just want to remind the viewers, his wife herself, a former nude model, got the Einstein visa to come over here, completely usurp the immigration system. What was her unique talent? I wonder that she was able to get that.

Furthermore, he’s increasing these — these deportations because he’s trying to be competitive with his predecessor, who I’m ashamed to say, Obama, who they called deporter-in-chief because he deported so many people, 430 something thousand, I believe, was the height of the year 2013.

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The White House slammed former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta after a cruel joke about President Donald Trump’s late ex-wife Ivana during a politically charged tirade about immigration on a YouTube podcast.

Appearing on The Contrarian alongside hosts Jennifer Rubin and April Ryan for their “No Kings”-themed broadcast, Acosta took aim at Trump’s deportation raids and jibed that he had a history of marrying immigrants, including Ivana Trump, who died in 2022 and is buried at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

“How many immigrants has he married?” Acosta asked. “He’s got one buried at his golf course in New Jersey! Isn’t she buried by the first hole or the second tee or something like that?”

Laughter followed from Rubin and Ryan as Acosta piled on: “Immigrants always doing the jobs that Americans don’t want to do!”

The clip, flagged on X by journalist Jason Cohen, quickly drew outrage from the right and condemnation from the White House.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Acosta in a comment to Fox News Digital, saying: “Jim Acosta is a disgraceful human being.”

Musk Apologizes To Trump After Public Feud

Waving the white flag…

Early Wednesday morning, billionaire Elon Musk publicly apologized to President Donald Trump, putting an end to the online feud.

Musk, who recently deleted posts warning that Trump was named in the files relating to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, had mostly broken with Trump over the “One Big Beautiful Bill” currently moving through the Senate. He went so far in a number of posts to call for people to vote against anyone in Congress who supported it.

In his Wednesday morning post, however, he voiced regret for how far he’d taken his attacks: “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.”

Many began to question whether a reconciliation between the two billionaires was on the table as Musk voiced his support for Trump’s actions in California.

On several occasions, Musk either reposted or commented positively on posts from Trump or his team regarding the administration’s actions to control the rioting in Los Angeles County.

Musk also shared Trump’s statement criticizing California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass for their failure to restore order once the protests turned violent. Rioters have been seen specifically targeting law enforcement and federal agents, including throwing rocks at federal vehicles.

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Monday that 40-year-old Elpidio Reyna, a resident of Compton, California, was the man seen on video throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles in Paramount, injuring one federal officer and damaging government vehicles.

“Elpidio Reyna can run, but he can’t hide. He threw rocks at federal officers leaving a command post in Paramount on Saturday, a brazen attack caught on film and that could have resulted in deaths. Reyna, 40, is charged with assault on a federal officer, and faces up to eight years in prison if convicted,” Essayli posted on X. 

A video shared with the post shows a man wearing a motorcycle helmet pelting rocks at federal vehicles on Saturday afternoon. 

Reyna has not yet been arrested, and the FBI is offering $50,000 for information that leads to his capture. 

Trump authorized sending another 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles on Monday and deployed hundreds of Marines. 

“The Insurrectionists have a tendency to spit in the face of the National Guardsmen/women, and others,” he posted on Truth Social. “These Patriots are told to accept this, it’s just the way life runs. But not in the Trump Administration. IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!”

Terry Moran Out At ABC News Following Post Attacking Trump White House

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ABC News correspondent Terry Moran is leaving the network after he took aim at President Donald Trump and top White House aide Stephen Miller in a now-deleted post on X. 

“We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – which was a clear violation of ABC News policies – we have made the decision to not renew,” a spokesperson for ABC News confirmed to Fox News Digital.

“At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism,” the spokesperson added. 

Moran was initially suspended after he called Trump and Miller “world-class” haters early Sunday morning. Moran, who’s been with the network since 1997.

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ABC News Suspends Terry Moran Over Deleted Post Blasting Stephen Miller

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He’s out…

ABC News has reportedly suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran over a deleted X post in which he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world class hater.”

According to CNN’s Brian Stelter, ABC News said Sunday that Moran has been “suspended pending further evaluation” following his post.

“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” Moran wrote in the deleted post. “Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

In its full statement obtained by Stelter, ABC News said Moran’s post was a violation of standards.

“ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” the network said. “The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards — as a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation.”

The White House immediately denounced the comments — with Vice President JD Vance calling them an “absolutely vile smear.

Trump Rejects Paramount’s $15 Million Offer To Settle CBS News Lawsuit

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President Donald Trump has rejected a settlement offer of $15 million from Paramount after he sued the company over a 60 Minutes interview last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

Fox News Digital confirmed that Trump rejected a $15 million offer to settle his lawsuit, according to a source familiar with the matter. The president’s legal team is also demanding at least $25 million and an apology from CBS News. Trump’s attorneys even floated another lawsuit against the company.

Last October, Trump sued CBS News and Paramount for $10 billion over allegations of election interference involving the “60 Minutes” interview of then-Vice President Kamala Harris that aired weeks before the presidential election (the amount has since jumped to $20 billion).

The lawsuit alleges CBS News deceitfully edited an exchange Harris had with “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker, who asked her why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t “listening” to the Biden administration. Harris was widely mocked for the “word salad” answer that aired in a preview clip of the interview on “Face the Nation.” 

However, when the same question aired during a primetime special on the network, Harris had a different, more concise response. Critics at the time accused CBS News of deceitfully editing Harris’ “word salad” answer to shield the Democratic nominee from further backlash leading up to Election Day.

The raw transcript and footage released earlier this year by the FCC showed that both sets of Harris’ comments came from the same response, but CBS News had aired only the first half of her response in the “Face the Nation” preview clip and aired the second half during the primetime special. 

CBS News has denied any wrongdoing and stands by the broadcast and its reporting. 

The lawsuit is just the latest a string of litigation Trump has brought against media companies. In December, ABC settled a defamation lawsuit by giving $15 million to Trump’s presidential foundation and issuing an apology.

Trump Announces Pardon For Reality Stars Todd and Julie Chrisley

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On Tuesday evening, President Trump revealed he will issues a full presidential pardon to reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley after they were found guilty of fraud and tax evasion in 2022. 

Todd and Julie, who rose to fame on the reality series “Chrisley Knows Best,” were convicted of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans as well as tax evasion and sentenced to 12 and seven years, respectively. Their sentences were later reduced. 

“It’s a terrible thing, but it’s a great thing, because your parents are going to be free and clean, and I hope we can do it by tomorrow. Is that OK? We’ll try getting it done tomorrow,” Trump told their daughter Savannah Chrisley and son Chase, in a phone call from the Oval Office on Tuesday that was posted onto an X account of a White House aide. The post was captioned in part, “Trump Knows Best!”

“Thank you so much, Mr. President,” Savannah could be heard saying on the call. Chase, through tears, added, “I just want to say thank you for bringing my parents back.” 

Trump told Savannah and Chase to give their parents his “regards and wish them a good life.” 

“They were given pretty harsh treatment based on what I’m hearing, pretty harsh treatment,” Trump said. “Congratulate your parents, and I hear they’re terrific people. This should not have happened.” 

He continued, “They have good children — you’re no longer children, but I’ll say it anyway. They have good children, don’t they, huh?”

Standing behind Trump was Alice Marie Johnson, whose sentence on drug charges he commuted during his first term and whom he appointed as his pardon czar in February. 

“Alice had a lot to do with this,” Trump told Savannah and Chase. 

The Chrisleys’ attorney, Alex Little, told Fox News Digital the pardon “corrects a deep injustice and restores two devoted parents to their family and community. President Trump recognized what we’ve argued from the beginning: Todd and Julie were targeted because of their conservative values and high profile. Their prosecution was tainted by multiple constitutional violations and political bias.” 

After the phone call with Trump, Savannah posted a video on her Instagram saying she got the call from the president that he was signing pardon papers for her parents while she was walking into a Sam’s Club. 

“So, both of my parents are coming home tonight or tomorrow and I still don’t believe it’s real!” she exclaimed. 

She said she will be “forever grateful” to Trump and his administration as well as her lawyers and everyone else who “put in countless hours” to “make sure that my parents got home.” 

“My parents get to start their lives over!” she added, saying she “vowed to stand next to you and your administration, exposing the corruption and continue fighting for the men and women who are in prison … Thank you, thank you, thank you and I will repay your kindness to every person that I meet, so thank God for a president like Donald J. Trump. Thank you, God, for a president who wants to restore families and loves people … and took the time to call me from the Oval Office to let me know my parents are getting their lives back.” 

Since entering the White House, Trump has issued a number of high profile pardons including for January 6 defendants. President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he will pardon a former Virginia sheriff Scott Jenkins.

NPR, Public Radio Stations Sue Trump Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Defunding

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NPR and three Colorado public radio stations have sued President Donald Trump and his administration over an executive order stripping away public funds for NPR and PBS.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this month instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR” and other public media outlets. NPR has vowed to challenge the order “by all means available,” and CEO Katherine Maher took action. 

The radio stations joining NPR in the suit are Colorado Public Radio, Aspen Public Radio, and KSUT.

“The Executive Order is a clear violation of the Constitution and the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of speech and association, and freedom of the press. It is an affront to the rights of NPR and NPR’s 246 Member stations, which are locally owned, nonprofit, noncommercial media organizations serving all 50 states and territories. Today, we challenge its constitutionality in the nation’s independent courts,” Maher said in a lengthy statement

“Public media was established to inform the American public and uphold American democratic values,” Maher continued. “The President’s Executive Order is directly counter to Congress’s long standing intent, as expressed in the Public Broadcasting Act, to foster vibrant institutions that achieve that mission, serving all Americans independent of political influence.”

The lawsuit names White House budget director Russel Vought, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and National Endowment for the Arts chair Maria Rosario Jackson as defendants, along with President Trump.

Maher said Trump “has repeatedly expressed his disapproval of editorial decisions reflected in programming offered by NPR and PBS,” and “disparaged NPR’s news and other content as ‘left-wing propaganda.’”

“His Executive Order states that our coverage is not ‘fair, accurate, or unbiased,’ building on prior statements making clear the President’s disapproval of NPR’s news coverage and editorial choices. The intent could not be more clear — the Executive Order aims to punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the President dislikes,” Maher said. 

“This is retaliatory, viewpoint-based discrimination in violation of the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has ruled numerous times over the past 80 years that the government does not have the right to determine what counts as ‘biased,’” she continued.” NPR will never agree to this infringement of our constitutional rights, or the constitutional rights of our Member stations, and NPR will not compromise our commitment to an independent free press and journalistic integrity.”

Maher said NPR has a First Amendment right to be “free from government attempts to control private speech as well as from retaliation aimed at punishing and chilling protected speech,” and believes the executive order “seeks to force NPR to adapt its journalistic standards and editorial choices to the preferences of the government if it is to continue to receive federal funding

NPR is asking for Trump’s executive order to be deemed unlawful and unconstitutional, along with reasonable costs, attorney’s fees and “any other relief that the Court deems just and proper.”

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