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Welcome to ‘the Claw’: the White House fighting cage captures Trump era rot | Sidney Blumenthal
The 154ft-tall structure for the UFC Freedom 250 gives Trump a chance to to put the government out to the highest bidder “If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty – the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast – nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millet of the District of Columbia court of appeals on 5 June to the principal deputy assistant attorney general, Yaakov Roth. “I think that’s right, yes,” he replied. In the case brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation against Donald Trump’s “sudden, unilateral, and unlawful decision” to demolish the East Wing of the White House and to construct a 90,000 sq ft ballroom, “without seeking approval from Congress; without requesting review and approval from the federal commissions charged with oversight of development
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Welcome to ‘the Claw’: the White House fighting cage captures Trump era rot | Sidney Blumenthal, The 154ft-tall structure for the UFC Freedom 250 gives Trump a chance to to put the government out to the highest bidder “If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty – the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast – nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millet of the District of Columbia court of appeals on 5 June to the principal deputy assistant attorney general, Yaakov Roth. “I think that’s right, yes,” he replied. In the case brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation against Donald Trump’s “sudden, unilateral, and unlawful decision” to demolish the East Wing of the White House and to construct a 90,000 sq ft ballroom, “without seeking approval from Congress; without requesting review and approval from the federal commissions charged with oversight of development
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- Welcome to ‘the Claw’: the White House fighting cage captures Trump era rot | Sidney BlumenthalThe Guardian - 2026-06-12T10:00:41+00:00
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