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What Happened Today – August 28

The consequences are piling up.

Covid shots blocked at pharmacies, $218M of Florida money wasted, economic stability shaken as he tries to seize the Fed. This is what happens when one man’s power grab comes before the country.

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We’re going to have a different set of rules… please be quiet for a moment. The moment that this starts becoming chaotic, like animalistic, we’re gone. Act civilized, act kind, act tolerant, because this is the problem with what’s happening in the region.
Tom Barrack, a real estate developer who is Trump's Ambassador to Turkey, while speaking at a press conference in Lebanon.
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Border Patrol arrests two firefighters at Washington wildfire in rare operation as concerns over federal agents acting at disaster sites resurface.

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