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Sept. 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 12, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Folks, here's the thing that surprises me about this.
And I know you know what I'm talking about.
Hillary Clinton, I don't care what video you look at, collapsed.
And they had to practically toss her in that van.
That was a neurological episode.
That's that's whatever pneumonia that's that's whatever.
She collapsed.
It looks serious.
And I asked a question about this last week.
Do you realize that nobody, if you've seen any of the videos about that incident yesterday, the 9-11 hearing when she had to leave it early?
That's another thing.
By the way, greetings, Rush Limbaugh here, 800-282-2882.
She had to leave.
Do you realize how many protocols are violated?
She had to leave wherever she was at the 9-11 ceremony early.
They never, they never take a subject away until the transportation is lined up and ready.
Because the worst thing, trust me on this, the worst thing the Secret Service wants is for the subject to have to stop and stand around, i.e.
as a sitting duck, until the transportation shows up.
But whatever happened yesterday, they had to broom that.
They had to get her out of there before the ground trans, the van, before the van even showed up, and she was waiting for a few minutes.
And maybe it was one minute or a little less.
But that's a huge violation of protocol.
And that is the only sign that anybody with her thought something was up.
The thing about this, and and there are so many things that amaze.
Here you have a woman who we know the uh latest allegations and the speculation and now the admissions about her illness.
And the one thing that's been curious about this is the people with her, people, her support staff, whenever something like this happens, don't seem to think it's anything unusual.
Like yesterday they didn't take her to hospital.
They took her to Chelsea's place.
And that's a major event that happened yesterday.
So they must be used to seeing it.
It must not be that abnormal or extraordinary.
Which is not a good sign for people dealing with this behind closed doors that we're not privy to.
It means that this has been going on a much longer period of time than than just the diagnosis of pneumonia on Friday.
But I want to go back to this program, grab audio soundbite number four.
This was when was this?
Last Tuesday, almost a week ago.
I said the following.
Something's not right here.
There's something that's potentially really, really wrong.
In fact, I'm gonna say this.
After I watched the video tape of Clinton in Cleveland, I actually started asking him who on her staff allowed that to continue.
Who put her out there?
I can't believe that Tim Kane let this go on and didn't take the mic from her, didn't try to take over.
I can't believe they sent her out in this condition.
Something clearly not right.
I'm not a doctor, and I'm not gonna pretend to be one here.
All I know is I've had hacking coughs and I've had them diagnosed, and there's only been reasons for them that are related to respiratory problem.
Hers supposedly aren't.
There's nothing wrong with her respiratory system.
I'm telling you, there's something that sounds really, really drastically wrong.
And I do wonder about the people who are close to her and who know and are still subjecting her to this.
Now, let's admit something.
She's the candidate and she can tell everybody what to do, when to do it, and when to shut up and so forth and so on.
But that's in response to that four-minute coughing fit in Cleveland last week.
That at some point everybody watching it said, why isn't somebody assisting her?
Why isn't somebody on her staff coming out and and and helping get her?
Why didn't Tim Kane get up and at least take the microphone for a couple of minutes while she composed herself?
They just left her out there to dry.
It was the strangest thing to me.
So I started asking myself why.
And and the only thing I can conclude, folks, is that none of this to the people closest to her, medical staff, campaign staff, none of this must be abnormal.
Or none of it must be extraordinary.
Maybe the way of saying it is this.
Maybe it happens so frequently that they've just become accustomed to it, and it isn't the big deal to them that it is to us, seeing it for the first second or third times.
But if that is the case, how long has this been going on?
Uh we we know that Mrs. Clinton, because of Jimmy Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel did a great national service.
He he showed that Mrs. Clinton is capable of opening a pickle jar.
Remember that?
But that apparently is not the question now.
Can she open prescription pill bottles?
That would seem to me to be something of great concern, too, and maybe Jimmy Fallon could have her on to demonstrate that.
I mean, pickle jars for crying out loud.
This is, I don't know, this is the first conspiracy I have ever known to fell somebody like it has her.
This is uh because everybody's saying all this is a conspiracy theory, and now all these conspiracy theories are pouring out to be true.
The media has a history of hiding uh medical problems of ranking Democrats, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, JFK, uh, any number of prominent Democrats, the media's gone out of its way to hide, and they're doing it here with with Mrs. Clinton as well.
Now, folks, the video, the the first I saw of this was probably what you've seen, and this was one that was on the cable news networks throughout the day yesterday.
Hillary Clinton is standing next to a barricade and a light pole with her back to the camera and waiting for something.
The van eventually showed the van arrives from the left of the screen.
As you're watching, the van arrives from the left, and the door opens to the van, and that's when everything happens.
She stumbles forward and eventually looks like it's just a total collapse.
There are people holding her by both arms.
She she collapses, and they they it appears just shove her in that van.
In the process, she lost a shoe.
They got her in the van, they shut the door, but and and and it if you look carefully, if you play it back in a number of different speeds, and if you can if you can focus on her, she's wearing all black or it's all dark, you can see that she's bobbing up and down.
She looked like she has lost neurological control and then collapses.
Now, the first thing they said, well, you know, she lost her shoe.
She that doesn't explain this, and it didn't explain it.
Now there's another video that purports to show a different angle.
But it doesn't.
I this second video has me really confused.
In this video, the van approaches from the right.
It's a it it that the purpose of the video is to show you a different angle.
An angle that shows Mrs. Clinton more clearly.
And in this video, the camera is much closer to the van.
The van approaches as you're watching from the right.
In the first video, the van approaches from the left.
So what they want you to believe is that they've simply flipped this to show you a new angle.
But you can't flip the video.
I mean, you can you can play a video backwards, forwards, but it doesn't change the angle you're looking at.
The footage is identical.
This second video purports to show a new angle.
And this new angle shows Hillary in even greater distress, or I should say it gives you a better view of the distress than the first video.
But what is intriguing to me is that nobody seems to have noticed that it can't be the same video.
How can in one video the van approach from the left and the door on the right side of the van open and Mrs. Clinton gets in?
In the next video, same setting, but the van approaches from the right, with the street being on the left of it.
And then the door opens in the van, which would be the left side of the van, and then Mrs. Clinton gets in.
And all of the people in the Video appear to be properly placed and they appear to be reversed.
Well, lapel pens are on the opposite lapel in the second video.
It's a really great trick, but the second video can't be one of the two can't be real.
One of the two has to be, unless somebody can explain this to me.
Now, I have not explained any of this to Coco.
I should have, you know, I should have explained this to Coco and had him put both videos up so we can do it side by side.
But Coco, they're both on YouTube.
Find the video that Fox News played yesterday afternoon, and then go to the video you see on Drudge Today, do a side-by-side comparison of them.
And you will see on one video the van approaches on the left and doesn't get close to her.
The shot is a fixed distance shot.
The other video, the van comes on the right side, the camera's closer, people look identical.
Hillary looks identical.
Going into the van looks identical, but it's exactly in reverse, purporting to show a new angle.
But if all you do is reverse it, you wouldn't see new footage, you wouldn't see a new angle.
You would just see everything from the opposite direction.
So it's I'm surprised the Clinton campaign hasn't objected to it.
To one of the two, one of the two videos is not is not right.
Now, this is not to say that what is depicted in one of these videos is not true.
It obviously is.
Mrs. Clinton is obviously very ill.
She has not been well for a long time, and many people in the Democrat Party are well aware of it.
And they have decided to roll the dice that they can exit the doctors or whoever can exert enough control over the presentation of the symptoms of this disease that they can manage it.
Imagine something like this happens in a debate.
Imagine they can't, obviously, they cannot predict when these episodes of hers are going to occur.
That has to be the scary thing.
They cancel her fundraising trip to California today after claiming that it was pneumonia diagnosed on Friday.
And now the appropriate news agencies are out with stories.
Oh, yeah, you know what?
Everybody in the campaigns come down with pneumonia.
It's a horrible thing.
Robbie Mook's got it.
That's the way they're trying to cover it.
Pneumonia, folks, can be fatal.
Pneumonia is, you know, there's walking pneumonia, there's pneumonia, non-walking variety.
It's it's really, really, really dangerous.
People, elderly people die from pneumonia.
It's something that has to be, you know, it's it's fluid in the lungs, among other things.
And it has to be monitored carefully, and it usually requires, depending on the severity and the age of the patient, hospitalization.
But up until Sunday, up until yesterday, they kept telling us there was nothing wrong other than Mrs. Clinton lingering effects from a concussion, which is requiring her to take blood thinners.
But aside from that, everything else was just a giant conspiracy theory.
All these alt-right wingers and these conservatives and these conspiracy fruitcakes were just making things up.
There was nothing to see.
It was all a big bunch of rigmarole.
And it turns out that they have known for a long time she's not well, and the diagnosis we get on Sunday is that, well, the news we got on Sunday is she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.
Well, why not tell us that on Friday?
Why, you know, she makes this comment about deplorables and really eats it.
I mean, really steps in it.
I mean, this is worse than what Romney said.
It is much worse than Romney's 47% comment.
Because this contained this statement contained two elements, both of which are devastating.
In the first half of the statement, she refers to half the American people, or half of the people supporting Trump as deplorables, undesirables, just the kind of people, youck, the sophisticated liberals don't want to have anything to do with.
Now, this is not good because liberals are not supposed to see looking at people this way.
Liberals make themselves up to love everybody.
Tolerant, compassionate, equality.
Everybody is wonderful.
And yet here she goes and starts talking about half of Trump supporters is a bunch of essentially human debris.
The second thing she said was that the other half of Trump supporters are legit.
They have legitimate grievances over the last eight years.
They're unhappy.
She just indicted the Obama administration.
So in this statement, she stepped in it big time twice.
Drive-by's trying to cover it up as best they can.
Why not, after she says this, why not announce then that she has pneumonia and is not feeling herself and take the occasion of the announcement of pneumonia to apologize for the deplorable comment and get rid of it.
They didn't do that.
They let the deplorable comment fester for a while.
Then they send her out with a quasi apology.
Then the thing happens yesterday.
They backtrack, oh yeah, we forgot.
She was diagnosed on Friday.
Now, again, folks, you understand what's happening.
I I Twitter is not covering any of this.
The Twitter timeline doesn't have the video of Mrs. Clinton's collapse.
The Facebook timelines trying to diminish this, so this is one of these events where you think everybody knows it, where you think everybody's seen it, and they haven't.
So if you're wondering, why aren't people more worked up about, don't forget that not nearly everybody has seen this.
Now, some of the drive-bys are talking about it, and they're very concerned, and there are elements that have leaked into the body politic and the and the the portion of the public that the mainstream media tries to hide things from, such as tweets about emergency meetings at the DNC with the possibility of needing to come up with a replacement.
They haven't firmly said that they're doing this, but it's been alluded to.
I guarantee there's there has to be various degrees of panic within the inner sanctum of the Democrat Party at whatever level you're talking about.
Because they can't predict these episodes, and what they know now is the doctors can't control them.
Whatever medication she's on, whatever maladies she's suffering, every time she goes in public, it is a roll of the dice.
And this has to have them quaking in their boots.
Democrats also have a history of replacing people they think are problematic.
Thomas Eagleton back in uh in 1972.
So we'll we'll just have to uh uh watch this and pay attention to it, as the Democrats are, because make no mistake.
They have grave concern.
I mean, the polls are tightening now.
In the battleground states, it's become a dead heat.
Trump has, in the words of the media seemingly matured, is doing things right here, staying on message.
Rallies continue to draw tens of thousands of people, Mrs. Clinton can't draw 500.
It's panic time.
It has they're not they're not showing it yet, but there's no question that it is.
We'll be back here.
I knew this is gonna happen.
I've got people saying, no, no, Rush, no, no, it's not two videos, they've just flipped it.
They just flipped the videos.
Well, then somebody explained to me something.
How come in one video you can see more of what happens to her than you can in the other if all they did was flip the video?
And it's you cannot create a new angle with the same video.
This this second angle attempts to make you think the camera is to the left of where the original camera is and therefore has a better view of Mrs. Clinton getting in the van.
If all you're doing is flipping the video and reversing the direction, you're not gonna change any angles because there's not a second camera.
But Rush, but Rush, I can see in that second video, you can really see her stumble.
You can really see her fold it around you.
Yeah, but why can't you win the first?
People are in the way in the first video, you can't see.
Well, the second video they've zoomed it, Rush?
That's part of the flipping.
They reversed it, and you're close.
Okay, all right, fine.
If I I'm just you're not going to change what's on video if all you're doing is reverse.
You cannot fake a second camera with a new angle showing something new if all you're going to do is take the same video and reverse the direction that it plays.
The second video, and that's second in the order I saw them, so it could be the first one you saw.
That's what makes this tough to go through.
Anyway, this shall continue.
I'm not suggesting the event didn't happen, folks.
Not by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm just suggesting here that one must always be careful.
Like all this stuff on the video is interesting, but it's a distraction.
So I don't want to get too much in the weeds on this.
My only point is that the original video I saw, which aired on Fox News has the van coming from the left, with all of the the street, the corner, the curb, and Hillary approaching as though the van's pulling up and everything's on the right.
The doors on the right side, doors open, Hillary gets in.
The camera is at a distance, and it is to the if you're looking at the screen, it's to the right of the van.
Then the second video comes as much closer, like if it's been zoomed, and it's been flipped.
The video shows the van coming from the right.
As though the curb is on the left of the van, and the door is on the left side, and it opens and it purports to show you even much more information.
You see much more of Hillary getting in the van in the second zoomed video than in the first video.
And I'm just asking, how is it possible?
Since the data on both is identical.
You can't create a new angle by reversing it.
You're you're seeing everything just reversed, but not a new angle, as though there's a new camera with a new view that's not in the first one.
So I guess what happened what's happening here is that zooming in is helping somebody see what you can't see in the original video.
But that's really beside the point.
The real point here is how sick is she?
How sick do they know she is?
And are they not telling us the full extent of it?
Haven't been any health care or health records released.
Bill Clinton's health records have never been released, so we don't know.
Uh he's been strangely absent during all this.
I wonder why.
The the video that we saw is fascinating, and then Mrs. Clinton looks real it's it looks bad, uh folks.
It looks she she falls.
She, I mean, she looks like she faints, and before that, her head is bobbing up and down as though she's having a seizure of some kind.
And people are holding her on each side of her.
One woman looks like her doctor taking her pulse, even as she's walking toward where the van is eventually going to drive up and stop and pick her up.
Then there's this near collapse, and they just shove her in the van.
They don't take her to a hospital.
They take her to her daughter's apartment where she emerges an hour and a half later, looking 200% better.
I'd like to know what they gave her in that hour and a half.
There's a lot of people would like to access it.
Because in an hour and a half later, an hour and a half later from that incident, she came out.
She looked like, well, not a million dollars, but she looked tremendously better than when she got in that van.
And remember, this is the incident where a young girl comes up and hugs her, and the Secret Service let that happen.
This is after we've been told she got pneumonia, which is contagious.
You know, so there's a lot of legitimate questions being raised by this.
In addition to that, up until this time, anybody expressing concern about her health was labeled a kook, A conspiracy cook, all of those people have been vindicated here.
We now've learned once again that it was Hillary and her aides and her team and the media that were hiding news from us, hiding the truth, which is not a surprise.
We all knew that was going on.
What we don't know is how bad it is.
But if she's canceling fundraising, this is the reason the Clintons exist.
Fundraising is why they do what they do.
And if she's canceling a fundraising trip of all places to California to the left coast.
But then, folks, they lie so much that we don't know what to believe.
Maybe they simply cancel a trip because they admitted she's got pneumonia, and it would not make sense for her to get on an airplane and fly for five or six hours and then get off and start doing a bunch of fundraising, that wouldn't look good after having told everybody she's got pneumonia.
So maybe they're sitting her down just to make the diagnosis of pneumonia stick.
But there are a lot of people who are very much concerned that it's much more than that.
Because the fainting and the the neurological behavior, the spasms, the seizures are not things usually associated with pneumonia, even walking pneumonia.
So that's the real question is just how bad is it and how much are they continuing to keep from us?
But but put yourself in their shoes again now.
They obviously this is the problem the Hillary team has, and and I don't mean to exclude her from it.
She's the one suffering from whatever it is, and it isn't good.
She's on blood thinners to the extent, this we know.
She's on blood thinners to the extent that if she falls and suffers a cut, it could be it it it could be catastrophic.
She's essentially on anti-stroke medicine.
These blood thinners, I think what's the name of the medicine?
Cumidin Comidin, some sort of it's it's a very powerful blood thinner.
Because she's had clots and the concussion and so forth.
Well, whatever else, if there is anything else is going on, these episodes are not predictable.
The coughing spasm for four minutes in Cleveland, then another one, same day a few hours later.
Then now this at the 9-11 ceremony where they say, Oh, yeah, she got overheated.
It wasn't hot, 79 to 82 degrees, the heat wave broke.
But if she's wearing a bulletproof vest, well, that could cause you to overheat.
You might be surprised to learn, folks, I have worn a bulletproof vest while appearing in public in parades and so forth, and they make you sweat out the wazoo.
So if she's wearing a vest, and that may be why she wears those house coats with Captain Kangaroo pockets on them, is to cover the vest.
If she's wearing a vest, she could have been overheated.
It's entirely possible.
Depending on what she was doing and how much sunlight, direct sunlight she was in.
I mean, anything's possible here.
We still are being held back on.
The thing that has to be concerning them is they can't predict when these incidents are going to happen, and there's still a long time to go before the election.
A lot of things are coming together now.
Why she's off the grid for four days at a time.
Why when she gets back on the grid she can't make it for very long before having to retreat to off the grid again.
Her appearance and her behavior and her stamina and her energy are not there.
Her stamina and energy, and I think when Trump pointed that out some weeks ago, the way they reacted to him on that, looking back on it, indication, boy, he must have really hit the bullseye because they went into overdrive trying to refute that one.
But it's it's abundantly clear that she isn't healthy.
Now, one of the things that some in the drive-by are Saying that this is a great example of how there is still bias against women.
That if she were a man suffering pneumonia and were struggling to persevere, that she would be given all kinds of credit for toughness and stamina and willing to do the tough things to get the job done.
But because she's a woman, they say.
She's being portrayed as weak and incapable and incompetent and unable to overcome it.
So they've got a lot of things on the Clinton side ready to go to explain this.
Everybody on the staff now coming down with pneumonia is another one.
And they've got their willing accomplices in the drive-by meeting.
People magazine is out with a full-fledged cover-up kind of story.
Oh, yeah.
Robbie Mook, everybody's got pneumonia in the Clinton campaign.
It's just it's one of these unfortunate things, but we're working hard, we're struggling, we're persevering.
Um but it's bad, and it's worse than they're telling us.
And we don't know who, even among the Clinton staff is fully up speed on it.
It's conceivable that not everybody on her staff knows how bad it is.
But it is bad.
And it is I'll tell you this, too.
If this were happening to Trump, there would have been calls for him to drop out months ago.
Weeks ago.
The media would be saying to Trump, the only responsible thing for you to do is to drop out.
You are potentially damaging your party.
You're damaging the country.
You're putting you and your family and the country and the party at risk with this selfish pursuit of yours.
If it were any Republican going through this, the drum beat would be quit and quit now.
And if the Republican refused to quit, it would be a never-ending barrage.
Not the case with Mrs. Clinton.
They're circling the wagons and finding ways, imaginative and creative, to cover this all up.
Or to explain it as essentially no big deal, something temporary.
Uh and she'll get it behind her pretty soon.
And we're going to be back to normal and be kicking ass and all that.
But that's not that's not in the cards.
They can't predict.
This has got to be, I would think, if if if I'm on the staff, the biggest the biggest scary thing every day.
They can't predict when these are going to happen.
They don't have medication that can control it.
Because if they did, then these incidents would not be happening, and they can't.
And it's clear they don't have this is a this is another amazing thing.
You can look at the coughing fit for four minutes in Cleveland.
You can look at this that happened yesterday.
They don't have what I would call emergency procedures in place.
You realize the protocols that were violated, Secret Service Protocols violated yesterday.
I can tell you the subject, meaning the people, the Secret Service are protecting, never ever, ever are to be seen or allowed to stand and not be moving, waiting for ground transportation to show up.
The subject doesn't move until ground transportation is in place.
The one thing that you do not do, if you're the Secret Service and you're moving your protectee around, they don't stop.
They don't stop, period.
In a circumstance like this, once you make the decision to leave, it's go until you get inside that van.
So something happened in there that nobody could predict, that nobody was so prepared for.
This was a totally unscripted, unprepared for instance yesterday or event.
And I got to take a break here, my friends, as I see the clock just speeding away.
We'll take a break and be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, the Fox News headline.
Hillary Clinton has medical episode at 9-11 ceremony.
Sources say the AP headline.
Doctors, pneumonia is serious, but Clinton should bounce back.
So don't worry, ladies and gentlemen.
Everything is going to be fine.
It's absolutely fine.
Let me go to the phones.
People want to weigh in on this.
We'll start in Madison, Wisconsin, with Chris.
It's great to have you.
Hello.
Good morning and welcome.
It's an honor to speak with you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Appreciate that, sir.
Thank you very much.
I need the guidance of a real anchor, and you're the anchor man.
So I am.
I truly am.
Some questions.
I am I would call myself a middle of the road Republican or a moderate Republican.
I was a Reagan Democrat in New Jersey many years ago, and now I'm a Wisconsin fan of Walker and others, such as Mr. Ryan.
But I will say this.
I reached an unsettling point yesterday in this entire election.
Up until now, I chopped this up as an unusual election that didn't have anything sinister going on, but I now went on Twitter, which I don't often do, and I see so many questions that unsettle me.
And when I put them all together, the question I'm going to ask you to give me some guidance on is this.
Who is really looking to get Mrs. Clinton, Secretary Clinton into the White House beyond herself?
Because there's so many people who know so much.
The Secret Service did not look the least bit surprised or unprepared to shield her medical condition from the public.
The doctor was at her side.
She went to her daughter's apartment and was miraculously walking on the street.
I don't buy the doppelganger theories.
But there's so many things that are consistent in the past.
Friday she was fine.
Now it's pneumonia.
She won't tell us what she said in all her speeches.
It's like every single thing we ask.
And when I say we, I mean anybody who's paying attention.
I don't just mean your listeners, although they're a good part of it.
A lot of smart people on Twitter who may not agree with you have the same question.
What's really going on here?
Is it just an ego battle?
I need your help.
I'm not a Madison liberal, but I'm also not a it's some kind of crazy right-wing psychophant.
I am trying to figure out there are no right-wing psychopaths, number one.
So I'm a psychophant.
Well other let me is your question if if I can boil your question, I want to make sure I understand and answer the right thing.
Are you asking just what is it that's really driving her to do this despite being so ill?
Or are you asking who is driving her to do this?
Who needs her there despite how ill she is?
I guess it's the latter, because it's almost as if she's become the puppet of the people who need her or want her in office.
And I'm not going to make any sinister connections to the Middle East or to the United States.
No, no, no, no.
You don't have to.
I'll be happy to answer this.
Please.
And it's not going to please you.
You're obviously, even though you're not a right-wing psychopath, because there aren't any right-wing psychopaths, you're still looking for an answer that has to be somewhat complicated because the simple explanation just can't justify everything we're seeing.
There has to be more to this.
I don't think average people like you and me have the ability to relate to the thirst and the quest for power that people like Bill and Hillary Clinton have.
I don't have it.
I have no desire for the kind of power she does.
Do I have something that would make me risk everything because I want it?
I don't know.
But she does.
I don't think it's much, I don't think it's complicated.
Now, this is not to say that there are not a lot of people who have really spent a lot of money expecting her to be in the White House.
And that could be an ancillary answer.
She has accepted over a hundred million dollars in donations to various interests.
The Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative.
When she was Secretary of State, there are people all over the world who have given this woman and her husband an amount of money that you and I will never ever see or dream of.
And they are going, and they do expect Something in return.
So I think it's a combination of those two things, but do not underestimate.
This is what makes leftists so damn dangerous, folks.
The quest for power to control everybody, to control everything.
It's unhealthy and it's not normal and it's dangerous.
And she's got it.
Too many strange things going on.
Rush, can you help make sense of it?
I thought I had, but we'll keep plugging away at it here, folks.
Nobody better at dissecting these people on the left than me.
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