Amy Gardner
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Let's please remember that Georgia just HAND-COUNTED every paper ballot in the state, and it did not change the outcome that was counted by the Dominion machines.
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FOLKS: Full audio published here. Please retweet far and wide.
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SCOOP: Ga. SoS Raffensperger says Sen. Lindsey Graham pressured him to toss legal ballots.
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Florida judge says there's no evidence of fraud in Broward, denies Scott's request to impound equipment, tells everyone to tone down the rhetoric bc the nation is watching.
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This is false. We published the entirety of the call, from start to finish. There is no mention of it being a confidential settlement meeting. None.
The audio published by
@TheWashingtonPost
is heavily edited and omits the stipulation that all discussions were for the purpose of settling litigation and confidential under federal and state law.
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Just in: Pennsylvania Secretary of State reports just 10k ballots came in between Nov. 3 and Nov. 6. Biden wins Pennsylvania without those votes.
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Trump said today he has evidence of enough fraud to overturn his loss, but the judges won't hear the evidence. This is false. His lawyers including Guiliani have not alleged fraud in court. Why? Because there are far graver consequences to lying in court than lying on Fox.
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BREAKING: GOP Michigan lawmakers will NOT object to certification of Biden victory.
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Hey everybody: It's over. Michigan ain't budging. Georgia ain't budging. Pennsylvania ain't budging.
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More Michigan news: Lawmakers are flying into DC to meet with President Trump tomorrow, at his request.
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Wow Brad Raffensperger comes out guns ablazing in presser: "massive amount of disinformation being spread by dishonest actors."
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Man. Stacey Abrams is so inside President Trump’s head.
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More than 120k Georgia voters cast ballots today, the first day of early voting, according to the secretary of state's office. A stunning record. Nearly three more weeks to go.
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BREAKING: Georgia Secretary of State about to announce that they will conduct a HAND RECOUNT of the presidential race.
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A former GOP lawmaker serving as a poll observer in NC was charged with assault this morning after he pushed a poll worker who was trying to prevent him from entering a polling place before it opened at 8 a.m. Partisan tensions are high.
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One of the great mysteries and horrors of today is why the mob is not cleared yet. A terrible stain on our government.
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I am repeating this because it is so insane. Wisconsin Republicans are trying to shut down a voter registration/ballot witnessing event in Madison tomorrow.
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Former GOP senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia joins a growing chorus within Republican ranks: "There was no wholesale fraudulent scheme."
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NEW: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction.
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Meadows's Georgia legal team gets a reprimand from 11th Circuit Court of Appeals -- with threat of automatic dismissal -- if they don't start filing properly.
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Militia members have gathered outside the Georgia Capitol. Brad Raffensperger and senior staff have been escorted out to safety.
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A Trump appointee writing for the 3rd Circuit. “Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.”
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Is Trump trying to steal the election? Yes. Will he succeed? No. That's the consensus of everyone, R and D. Now he's just hanging onto his own political ambitions for 2024 at the expense of our country's faith in our democracy.
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Interesting point from Gabe Sterling of Ga. SoS: The reason GOP signatures were rejected at higher rates than Dem signatures is bc Dems had a cure program. They chased voters whose ballots were rejected and got them to fix as allowed under the law. GOP was slow to that game.
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Here is the form Elizabeth Warren filled out for the State Bar of Texas claiming American Indian heritage.
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Trump campaign calling its press event in Gettysburg a "public hearing" being held by the Pennsylvania Senate with "opening statements" and "testimony" is a flat-out falsehood. This is not a Senate event and certainly not a government hearing.
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The Post has published Trump’s full phone call with Georgia election officials. Listen to the audio and read the transcript. Via
@AmyEGardner
@paulina_milla
@WordsOfSarah
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Jim Jordan still can't bring himself to say that Joe Biden won a free and fair election.
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UPDATE: 61k votes are outstanding in Georgia. 17,157 from Chatham; 11,200 from Fulton; 7,338 from Gwinnett; 4,713 from Forsyth; 3,641 from Harris; 1,797 from Laurens; 1,552 from Putnam; 1,202 from Sumter; 700 from Cobb. FEAST
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Giuliani et al has had many opportunities to prove fraud in court, and they have failed. Over and over again. Why? Because there is no evidence that it happened in any measurable amount. None.
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That audio, my god. "Where are you Nancy? We’re looking for you, Nancy. Oh, Nancy! Nancy! Where are you, Nancy.”
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It’s amazing how many impassioned county clerks are urging the Michigan state canvassing board to certify. Failure to certify will disenfranchise all Michiganders and show that “democracy is dying in Michigan,” one said.
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Words of a sitting congressman who denies responsibility for 1/6: “Call your congressman. You can lightly threaten them and say, if you don’t start supporting election integrity, I’m coming after you, Madison Cawthorn is coming after you.” Via
@MurphinDC
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The intro to this opinion shutting down the Trump campaign in its federal suit in Pennsylvania (the one where Giuliani didn’t know what strict scrutiny was) should be read aloud tonight at every dinner table in America tonight.
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“You could see that some are on our side.”
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Brad Raffensperger, the Ga. secretary of state, and his wife Tricia have both received death threats since President Trump and his allies began attacking him for not claiming that fraud tainted Biden's win in the state.
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Giuliani's hair dye appears to be dripping from both sideburns.
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I wonder if he was also talking to a certain person in Washington?
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BREAKING: Trump’s actions described as ‘a betrayal of historic proportions’ in trial brief filed by House impeachment managers w/
@karoun
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So Trump’s claim that big evidence is coming out of Georgia is apparently a reference to Sidney Powell’s accusation that Kemp and Raffensperger are in on the alleged Dominion machine conspiracy. At what point does all this become actionable as libel or frivolous lawsuits?
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In a statement, Senate majority leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield said they have seen no new evidence of fraud that would justify overturning Biden's win.
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They also seemed to take a shot at Trump's efforts to subvert the popular vote here:
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Green Party candidate admits Republicans are helping him get on the ballot in Wisconsin:
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It may look like the wheels are coming off, but remember: President Trump has lost every single court battle he has waged to prove voter fraud cost him the election. Why? Because it didn’t. He lost.
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Giuliani’s clownish performance in court plus the Krebs firing reveal a presidency going down in flames. But 152m legal votes counted, Wayne County canvassing board reversal, Raffensperger in GA and 2 dozen court defeats show the country’s institutions are stronger than one man.
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SCOOP with
@AnnieLinskey
— Elizabeth Warren filled out a form for the State Bar of Texas claiming Indian heritage.
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SCOOP: Fulton D.A. looking at November call between Ga. Sec of State Brad Raffensperger and Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was already serving as juror and defense adviser in Trump's impeachment trial. w/
@thamburger
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@jdawsey1
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Just want to say that my friend
@shearm
published this while battling covid that he caught at the White House. Badass doesn’t begin to tell the tale here. Respect.
BREAKING -- "We need to take away children." A damning internal investigation concludes that top Justice Dept. officials were "a driving force" behind
@realdonaldtrump
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@nytmike
@ktbenner
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These are the words of an attempted coup, but they do not match reality. It would be near impossible for Trump to reverse Biden's win without PA. A GOP legislative staffer text: "We have not been invited to Washington - nor do we have interest in visiting."
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BREAKING: Georgia has certified the results in the two runoff Senate elections, paving the way for Dems to take the majority after Kamala Harris's swearing in tmw as VP, w/
@ericawerner
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A computer image from "2000 Mules" purporting to show drop box locations in Gwinnett County, Ga. -- and the routes driven by allegedly criminal ballot harvesters -- are actually stock images of the city of ... Moscow. via
@pbump
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Co-founder of the Federalist Society - THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY -- called Trump's tweet about delaying the election "fascistic" and grounds for "immediate impeachment"
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SCOOP: Sen. David Perdue, who is trying to woo Trump voters in his runoff in Georgia, appears to tacitly acknowledge Biden’s victory in private video call this week
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Clayton county will deliver 5,700 votes around midnight. Clayton is 85-15 Biden. That should push him into the lead in Georgia.
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It's over. 3-0-1, with Norman Shinkle abstaining. President-elect Biden's victory in Michigan is official.
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The honesty of Minnesota Republicans’ legal argument is breathtaking: that accepting every ballot “dilutes their votes as a matter of pure arithmetic: When the vote pool goes up, the weight of their individual votes goes down.” By
@byaaroncdavis
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The Post obtained recordings of statements made by four of Trump’s co-defendants who pleaded guilty in the case in Fulton County, Ga. -- read the juicy details here. with
@hollybdc
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The exodus from the floor came after Chris Turner, the House Democratic chairman, sent instructions to colleagues at 10:35 p.m. CDT: “Members, take your key and leave the chamber discreetly. Do not go to the gallery. Leave the building.”
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Trump's defense lawyers are apparently ignoring the House managers' argument that he set the stage for the riot over the course of months.
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Wonder how many golf shirts and pairs of shorts are in that big bag for his quick overnight...
Reuters has acquired a photo of Ted Cruz at the Cancun airport today on his way back to Texas.
Notice how he’s wearing a mask with the Texas State flag on it.
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There has been no evidence of a breakdown in the Georgia election system. And in fact the reverse seems to be true: the 1,000s of heroes toiling in the counties are expected to report their results far faster than they did in Nov., bc this has been nothing if not a teaching year.
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Ted Lieu: What Trump did was dishonorable, unAmerican and it resulted in deaths. Very powerful.
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Wait is Schoen saying 74m Trump voters were disenfranchised by fraud, while Castor says Biden won fair and square? I'm confused.
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The drop in ballot rejection rates in Georgia was not inexplicable. A signature audit had already taken place in Cobb County and produced no evidence of widespread irregularities. That had already happened when Trump called Brad Raffensperger.
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I just learned that Congress can impeach Trump after Jan. 20, so that he can never run for office again. Could be meaningful if there are not quite enough votes in the Senate currently but the two new senators-elect from Georgia could make a difference.
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President Trump tonight declared quite clearly, and repeatedly, that he has not accepted, and has no plans to accept, the results of this election.
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THANK YOU! This is so nice.
If you aren’t following
@AmyEGardner
please do so. She is 35,000 followers away from hitting 100,000. Let’s get her there tonight.
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Important to note this person was LEADING a criminal investigation. President Trump went out of his way to find the person's identity and how to get in touch. The call came the day after Mark Meadows visited the investigation headquarters and possibly met this individual.
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Rep. Nicole Malliotakis continuing to spread falsehoods on Fox News this morning. There is no evidence of fraud on the scale you claim. There are no witnesses with evidence. None.
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“Voters, not lawyers, choose the President. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections.”
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Georgia officials expect the number of voters who cast ballots today, the first day of early voting, to approach 80,000. This is a stunning number. About 4m voted in 2016. There are nearly three more weeks of early voting. Plus mail balloting. Plus Election Day.
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It’s hard not to imagine how much more forceful police would be about curfew enforcement if this was a BLM protest.
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More frustration from RNC officials over "finger-pointing" that the GOP is guilty of voter suppression.
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“There is no evidence, there are no facts, that would lead anyone to believe that the election results would change." — Republican AG of Arizona, who investigated 1,000 claims of sharpie-related fraud and found them baseless.
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Trump says they have so much evidence of fraud they need wheelbarrows to transport it. No evidence has made it into a court proceeding.
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A source in NC tells me that a long line of Blackhawks and Chinooks from Fort Bragg, home of the Special Forces, just flew overhead heading north.
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It would also be nearly impossible without GA. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's staff has told me there is zero chance he would take a call from the president right now.
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NEW: House Oversight Committee will investigate Louis DeJoy following claims he pressured employees to make campaign donations:
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One of the subtexts of the CPAC presentations on election fraud is that the media failed to find it. But didn't the accusers fail to present it? Show me the van full of ballots and I will write that story.
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Gabe Sterling is not holding back. On the call, Trump talked about taking out inner parts of Dominion machines. "That's not a thing," Sterling said.
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🚨🚨🚨 Pot will be legal in Virginia on July 1, after the Democratic majority in the state legislature today voted to move the process up by three years.
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McConnell doesn’t intend to ever speak to Trump again. Incredible details from our incredible WH team on the madness of King George, our bunkered president.
@PhilipRucker
@AshleyRParker
@jdawsey1
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I really want to start seeing arrests and charges for the violent crimes we are all watching over and over again in our Twitter feeds.
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Also, a bunch of lawyers filed an amicus brief for the prosecution last night, including the conservative former appeals judge Michael Luttig, arguing that Meadows case should NOT be removed to federal court.
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The crowd is bored. Imagine how many at home have changed the channel. Doesn’t bode well for turnout tomorrow. If Election Day turnout is below 800k, trouble for republicans.
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Something quite remarkable about John Lewis’s home county giving Biden the lead in Georgia.
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President Trump will not “get” electoral votes before all legally cast ballots are counted — or before the outcome is clear INCLUDING projections about outstanding ballots. Results won’t “flip.” Results including all legal ballots are not “stolen.”
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I think Trump's lawyer just said that Biden won in a free and fair election.
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Citing video and witnesses, Sherwin said the public will “be shocked with egregious activity in the Capitol. No resources of the FBI or the US attorney’s office will be untapped to determine if there was command and control, how it operated and how it executed these activities.”
Justice Dept., FBI have created a sedition and conspiracy task force to pursue charges against Capitol rioters
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What a night! Texas Democrats stage walk-out and block GOP voting bill. Update here:
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Federal judge in Georgia rules today that rejecting absentee ballots because the birth year is filled out wrong on the envelope violates the Civil Rights Act. Big implications for GA-07.
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Giuliani: I have no idea how Arizona picks its voting machines. But however it works, it's corrupt
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As states press forward with vote counts, Trump advisers privately express pessimism about heading off Biden’s win, with
@thamburger
@jonswaine
@jdawsey1
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Meadows told SoS officials that he was just trying to get "around the tweets" and find out how the investigation was being run. It seems clear Trump's call resulted from something Meadows reported back to him.
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BREAKING: Mark Harris directed the hiring of McCrae Dowless, despite warnings over tactics, according to sources. w/
@bethreinhard
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A portrait of disparity in Wisconsin: Milwaukee's population is about 600,000 and more than a 1/4 African American. The city is running five voting sites today. Madison has a population of about 250,000 and is about 7 percent black. It is operating 66 polling locations today.
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SCOOP with
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@pkcapitol
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Alarming that Sen Graham doesn’t understand that this is not physically possible. The envelopes have been separated from the ballots.
Completely agree with
@Perduesenate
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@KLoeffler
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@realDonaldTrump
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Today is not only Electoral College Day. It is the first day of early voting in the two Georgia Senate runoffs. Happy Monday!
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