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Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for @SpeakerPelosi @January6thCmte . Counsel for Senator @JoeBiden . @YankeeStadium 🌭 vendor. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.
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Last week, with the change in House control, I left a great job. I was Special Litigation Counsel in the House Office of General Counsel, litigating on behalf of Congressional committees and
@SpeakerPelosi
, and handling special projects. A long, self-indulgent thread follows. 1/
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The lifeboats on the Titanic rescued more people in 3 hours than any other transatlantic liner in 8 years.
We’ve created more jobs in the last 3 months than Joe Biden and Barack Obama created in their 8 years in office.
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Happy 68th Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.
She is younger than 41 senators and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
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Barr contradicted Trump at four times in this presser:
--cyber breach appears to be Russia
--no basis for special counsel for voter fraud
--no basis for special counsel for Hunter Biden
--no basis for seizing election machines
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On this day in 1865 the Confederacy was cancelled after an unsuccessful four-year run.
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Today in 1924 the NYT ran a story that did not hold up well at all.
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I’m just going to keep retweeting this until the senators start talking about it.
@michelleinbklyn
@brianbeutler
Here’s Trump on December 3 saying he would “love” for Pompeo and Mulvaney and Perry to testify in the Senate, where “it will be fair.” Democrats should talk about that!
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Six years ago to the minute.
It's almost like the United States has no President - we are a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster. Good luck everyone!
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RASKIN: "If you rob a bank, and on the way out the door yell, 'Respect private property!', that's not a defense to robbing a bank."
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One year ago today the president gassed his own people for a photo op.
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John Kelly, chief of staff to Trump, on his boss. Good God.
Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump
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Emmett Till would have turned 80 today. That’s younger than Jim Clyburn, or Nancy Pelosi, or my parents.
The past isn’t past.
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It's been a tough month but finally a Trump court win.
The First Lady announces the White House has new tennis courts
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Let’s just say I’ve never heard of an Attorney General sneaking out of the country on “official travel,” unannounced. Seems very odd.
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MICHELLE OBAMA: Too many have died of coronavirus under Trump.
TRUMP: Even more, actually!
Trump disses Michelle Obama: "She was over her head, and frankly, she should've made the speech live, which she didn't do, she taped it. And it was not only taped, it was tape a long time ago, because she had the wrong [coronavirus] deaths."
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DeSantis becomes the first candidate to trail both the frontrunner and the frontrunner's son's fiancée's ex-husband.
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Colin Jost’s closing meditation on his grandfather, decency, and the fragility of freedom is worth four minutes of your time.
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CNN’s new leader
CNN chief Chris Licht is resigning, after months of turmoil capped by a disastrous Trump town hall and a humiliating Atlantic cover story.
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There are no Rommel statues in Germany.
Once again
@realDonaldTrump
has stirred the pot by calling Robert E. Lee a “great general.” Which he was. Just like Rommel. Grant knew it about Lee, as Patton knew it about Rommel. You can fight in a bad cause, and lose, and still be a great general. Why deny such truths?
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NEGUSE: If Trump had immediately said "Stop the Attack!" with even half the force as he said "Stop the Steal!", how many lives would have been saved?
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@LaraLeaTrump
Here’s the 1972 map when Nixon won the popular vote by 23% instead of losing by 2% like your father-in-law. Guess what happened to Nixon 21 months later?
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Who wants to tell Fox News what happened to the Spanish Armada?
So a Fox host compared a Trump boat parade to the Spanish armada
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@AnnCoulter
Actually, your chart shows that coronavirus is MORE dangerous than the seasonal flu for everyone over 30.
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Liz Cheney suggests Erdogan is attacking Kurds now because Trump is beset by impeachment.
Instead of blaming Dems, maybe she should help get us a POTUS who can walk and chew gum at the same time?
And who doesn’t keep bragging about impeachable acts?
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Two days ago, Rudy Gobert joked about giving everyone coronavirus. Now he's tested positive, and the NBA cancelled its season.
Keep your hands to yourself.
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When you want to overthrow the government but your team hasn’t gone this far in 26 years.
Important note: The majority of the protesters at the Ohio Statehouse headed home around the same time the Cleveland Browns game is supposed to start.
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Heather Heyer died at Charlottesville four years ago today.
The memory of the righteous is a blessing.
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As Fox debated how to handle Trump’s election lies, Tucker’s then-producer described their audience as “dumb” “cousin-fucking” “terrorists.”
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These two men helped save the world. Daniel Inouye and Bob Dole suffered devastating injuries in Italy in the final month of WW2's European theater.
They recuperated together in an Army hospital in Michigan and served for decades together in the Senate.
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I believe Biden has now matched FDR's record by winning Georgia four times.
#BREAKING
Georgia Secretary of State announces that today he will recertify the presidential election results for Joe Biden after three counts of the ballots.
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Your occasional reminder that Anthony Fauci has held one job since 1984.
10/13/1988 debate:
@AnnCompton
asks Bush & Dukakis who their heroes are, "point out to young Americans as figures who should inspire this country?"
Bush: "Fauci ...top doctor at NIH, working hard doing something about research on this disease of AIDS"
h/t
@mschlapp
via
@bterris
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Call me crazy but I think
@waltshaub
has a better grasp of this Trump tweet than the
@AP
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Just a reminder that
@MichaelCohen212
predicted 1/6 nearly two years earlier.
COHEN closes with this disconcerting thought: "Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power."
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Most Tweeters don’t post replies like this, but in this case more should.
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The scheme alleged in the Bannon indictment is a great example of the contempt in which top Trumpsters hold his supporters — politically and financially, they’re viewed as easy marks.
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This man is proof that if you believe in your dream and never give up then eventually your mother will die.
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Sharing this picture tonight for no particular reason at all
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"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!
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You know who else called himself Don and launched idiotic attacks on windmills?
Trump says wind turbine noise causes cancer. (It does not.)
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When Koko the Gorilla strung five words together we all loved it, so why do people get so mad when Trump does it?
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One year ago today — the “counter” never showed up. It’s almost like Trump and Rudy talk big but don’t deliver.
It has been incorrectly reported that Rudy Giuliani and others will not be doing a counter to the Mueller Report. That is Fake News. Already 87 pages done, but obviously cannot complete until we see the final Witch Hunt Report.
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Can't make this up -- Roy Moore said in September that the last time America was great was when we had slavery. (h/t
@reckonalabama
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No one ever met my high school girlfriend because she was under audit.
Kayleigh McEnany claims Trump’s tax returns are still under audit but he’ll release them when it’s over, which reminds me I have a bridge for sale in New York
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If you’re “disgusted and insulted” by the Speaker ripping up a copy of the President’s speech but you said nothing when he literally called for his political opponents to be arrested for treason, you’re not a serious person.
As Speaker of the House for four State of the Unions by a President of the other party I am disgusted and insulted by the viciously partisan action of Nancy Pelosi tearing up the speech.She isn’t clever or cute her childishness insults our American traditions -should be censured.
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Imagine saving the world from the fucking Nazis and then 75 years later the Secretary of Defense won’t wear a fucking mask to protect you because the President thinks it looks weak and then the White House says it’s cool because you’re “choosing nation over self.”
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This was bribery! Not “attempted”! Under 18 USC 201(b)(2) an official commits bribery when he “corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally . . . in return for being influenced in the performance of any official act.” 1/
Laura Ingraham: "Attempted bribery isn't in the Constitution"
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Ruby Bridges is only seven years older than Barack Obama. The past can be quite recent.
Of all of the photos of Ruby Bridges, my favorite is this one from 2011 of her and President Obama looking at the Norman Rockwell portrait of her, hanging at the time just outside the Oval Office.
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ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: Trump, with his typical dedication to debunking inaccuracy, asks a seven-year-old: “Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it's marginal, right?"
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In response to Ramaswamy's request, here are Joe Biden's tax returns from 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, and 1998.
Ramaswamy: $5 million dollar bribe
Bash: There’s no evidence to support that
Ramaswamy: There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence. Ask Grassley for the recordings.
Bash: We have. Nobody has seen it
Ramaswamy: Joe Biden and Nikki Haley should release their tax returns
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Yet another reason why Trump doesn’t like masks — he didn’t recognize
@kaitlancollins
in a mask, and when he realized that he had called on her he stormed off in a huff.
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Sad that the new WH press secretary appears to be a birther, but not as sad as the new WH chief of staff being a birther, which of course isn’t as sad as the President being a birther.
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Trump cluelessly retweets Brit Hume saying that Trump will unify the Democrats against him.
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Forgetting the 1960 election then adding another state the next day *and still getting it wrong* is simply next level. Person of the year!
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Yesterday’s letter from Fiona Hill’s lawyer to WH lawyers, pushing back on their executive privilege claims, may reveal the tenor of her testimony today: “The deliberative process privilege disappears altogether when there is any reason to believe government misconduct occurred.”
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GOP congressman slams Trump for his idiotic Kim/Biden tweet. Did I miss other GOP officials speaking out or was he the only one?
It’s Memorial Day Weekend and you’re taking a shot at Biden while praising a dictator. This is just plain wrong.
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Below is a complete list of every single Republican woman who ever served on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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@gtconway3d
Here’s a thread of 26 women who say Trump sexually abused or sexually harassed them. Maybe Rep, Mace should read it?👇👇
At least 26 women have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual abuse or sexual harassment. Let's review them all, in rough chronological order of when the abuse/harassment allegedly occurred, using this
@eliza_relman
piece in
@BusinessInsider
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Schiff nails the issue: “If the subject of a complaint can stop a complaint from getting to Congress, then the most serious complaints will never get here.”
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As my hostage just told you, MY GUN IS NOT SHOVED INTO HIS BACK.
....The conversation with the new and very good Ukraine President, who told the Fake News, at the United Nations, that HE WAS NOT PRESSURED BY ME IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, should by and of itself bring an end to the new and most recent Witch Hunt. Others ended in ashes!
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You can be damn sure that Trump isn’t caving on Doral due to media/Dem hostility. Rather, he fears one or more of:
— GOP opposition —> congressional revolt
— European boycott
— possible legal exposure
....Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020. We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately. Thank you!
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
--Upton Sinclair
SCOOP: Barr doesn’t accept key inspector general finding about FBI’s Russia investigation
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Anyone who says "But how can Trump defend himself without calling Biden to testify?" should ask themselves why the testimony of Trump's chief of staff, secretary of state, national security adviser, and personal lawyer wouldn't actually help him.
The subpoenas should go to witnesses with testimony to offer to Trump’s shaking down the Ukraine government — they should go to the White House.
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For everyone saying “Now we know why Trump wanted to get rid of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York” — don’t be so sure we know just yet.
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In most ways 2020 has been miserable. But then there’s the initial statement of the mayor-elect of Wausau, Wisconsin upon learning of her victory.
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Feinstein hit a key point this morning -- the Presidential Records Act allows Trump to withhold Kavanaugh's Bush WH documents only if he personally invokes privilege. He has not done so -- but the GOP doesn't care.
Anyone see a document signed by Trump invoking executive privilege over the 100K pages of Kavanaugh documents from the Bush White House? Unless personally invoked by Trump, it’s invalid.
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DERSHOWITZ IN 1998: IMPEACHMENT DOESN'T REQUIRE A CRIME.
“It certainly doesn't have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty.”
WHO DOES THAT DESCRIBE? 🤔
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
--Upton Sinclair
REPORTER: So you're saying that it's okay for a President to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival and withhold foreign aid to coerce him into doing so?
BRAUN: No, I'm not saying that's okay. I'm not saying that's appropriate. I'm saying that it DIDN'T HAPPEN.
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He paid the last woman who wasn’t his type $130K to stay quiet.
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Trump’s former Secretary of Defense basically compared him to a Nazi yesterday and in response — based on the feeds of congressional reporters — most GOP senators are passing on the chance to defend Trump. That’s something!
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on this day in 1933. Her father came here from Odessa, Ukraine, at age 13. "I had the good fortune to be a Jew born and raised in the U.S.A.," she said in this 2004 speech at
@HolocaustMuseum
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If you believe Trump blocked witnesses to preserve the powers of the next president, you probably believe he cheated on Melania to preserve the powers of her next husband.
"The whole reason Sondland and Johnson are the only people “on record" . . . is because Trump blocked all the other people who also discussed this with him from testifying."
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The voter fraud is coming from inside the house.
NEW - President Trump originally tried to register to vote in Florida using a "legal residence" address that was not even in the state of Florida.
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As Deputy Attorney General, Don Ayer was Bill Barr’s boss when Barr headed OLC, and Barr succeeded him as DAG when Ayer left government. Now Ayer says it’s time for Barr to do the same.
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@rosstmiller
In the otherwise magnificent GET OUT, multiple characters used Bing instead of Google.
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I’m a broken record on this, but Hicks is an ex-employee with no duty to heed WH objections here. The reason she’s not talking is that she doesn’t want to talk.
Dems not happy so far with Hope Hicks appearance. Karen Bass told me “it’s pretty ridiculous” WH counsels are objecting to any questions about her time at the WH, as Nadler goes one-by-one through the questions. Nadler made clear to Hicks and the WH that he views this as “absurd”
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Don’t let Paxton’s corruption distract from the fact that — in briefs his own Solicitor General refused to sign — he sued Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) impeached by Texas House of Representatives 121-23
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One week later, the Dow has dropped 17.3%. Maybe it’s s bad idea to autograph a one-day stock chart?
The White House sent an autographed print out of todays stock market chart to Lou Dobbs
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Given whom he’s paid hush money to, you’d think he’d know how to spell “stripped”.
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Ramaswamy shows once again he would fail the civics test he wants 18-25 year olds to pass to be allowed to vote.
LMAO -- Ramaswamy says Mike Pence should've used the opportunity on January 6 to unilaterally implement universal single-day voting and voter ID. Beyond parody.
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“Everyone is lying” joins “Everyone is out to get me” as a genius theme for Trump 2020.
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@elonmusk
@hodgetwins
@micsolana
But — for starters — the “Biden team” was not in the government in 2020.
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Some said "Why impeach? Let the election decide."
We said that would be unwise because he tried to cheat in that very election.
Here we are, 53 days after Election Day, and he's *still* trying to cheat.
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Trump in Georgia: “At stake in this election is control of the U.S. Senate.”
So he concedes that the VP to break a 50-50 tie would be Kamala Harris, meaning that he lost?
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@IvankaTrump
Thanks for the suggestion. Could you explain why you went to New Jersey for Passover while the rest of us played by the rules and stayed home to help save lives?
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12:10pm: The shutdown will *save* so much $$ that it will substantially pay for the wall.
12:32pm: The shutdown will *cost* so much $$ that it could be more expensive than the wall.
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Six years ago this moment
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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