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  "textContent": "Donald Trump’s FBI director is suing over a critical article. He has a tough legal standard to meet.\n\nThe post Kash Patel suggests his defamation case against The Atlantic is a ‘legal lay up.’ It’s not. appeared first on MS NOW.",
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