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BREAKING: this is actually a stunning revelation. This is the newly unsealed more detailed inventory.

BREAKING: the DOJ has rejected Trump's request to pay 50 percent of the $700 an hour salary of the special master to oversee the documents the FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago.

"Each party will bear 50% of the professional fees and expenses of the Special Master and any professionals, support staff, and expert consultants engaged at the [special] master’s request," Trump's team asked

DOJ disagreed, writing that Trump, "as the party who requested the Special Master, will bear 100% of the professional fees and expenses of the Special Master and any professionals, support staff, and expert consultants engaged at the Master’s request."

the top candidate for the Special Master job charges $700 per hour

Trump has no say on how many hours the Special Master can work.

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I want to tell a story. When I was in like 3rd grade, I went with my mom while she dropped some drugs off (yes, she was). Anyways. She left me in the car. This guys comes out to “watch” me and it’s just me and him. He looks over and asks. “You don’t know what a haiku is, do you?”

I responded “yeah, it’s a traditional Japanese poem consisting of 3 lines and in the pattern of 5-7-5 syllables.” I remember I had just written one in class. He freaked out and told me I was the smartest person he has ever met. I was literally like 8.

Anyways. On that day he vowed to make sure I always made it to school. My mother was in her own world, doing and dealing drugs. When I tell you this guy drove me and picked me up so he KNEW I went everyday.. he literally did my homework with me.

He took me to all the important things in my life. He became family. The closest thing to a father figure I’ve ever had honestly. He was my best friend. He saved my life. Tonight I got a call from his sister. He died unexpectedly from a (possible) heart attack @ around 1am.

I woke up last night. At 1 am on the dot. I literally could not fall back asleep, so I laid there until 4. And then got up and went to lab. They tried reviving him from 1-4am. It’s like in some weird way my body felt that energy. I just didn’t know.

So, quick story!

As you can see, this poor British Army soldier collapsed, and it might help to understand this is quite common in ceremonial units.

I was in the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, which is the U.S. Army’s equivalent of this unit.

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When you do ceremonies in units like these, you have to stand at attention, without moving, for a long period of time. You’re trained to not move a muscle, much less an inch, and of course, for various reasons, soldiers still pass out. But we called it “falling out”.

It’s not just locking your knees! That’s the most common reason for falling out, but it’s also other things: dehydration, heat stroke, sometimes exhaustion. I say that because “don’t lock your knees!” is an easy critique but doesn’t paint a full picture. Don’t judge this soldier!

Every soldier arriving at the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (also known as “The Old Guard” or TOG) went through a three week training course called ROP (Regiment Orientation Program, pronounced “rope”). It sucked! For many reasons.

You had to learn how to prep your uniforms immaculate (we literally pressed our own uniforms on an actual pressing machine). You learned basis regs of the unit. But the worst part, by far, was testing at the end of each of the three weeks by standing at attention for a long time.