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On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that you just gave seven figures to Paul Vaughn, an anti-choice activist who was convicted by a jury in 2024 for conspiring to block access to an abortion clinic, which is an actual law that he broke, even though it is one that Trump doesn’t believe should exist.
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