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“We’re like drowning people clutching at straws,” he said, adding that the ceasefire meant for him the chance “to return to a normal life.”

“Then they have one that’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

Prosecutors say he recruited straw donors—who were reimbursed for their contributions—on behalf of an associate trying to secure access to the Mar-a-Lago event for a Chinese national.

The group worked with local straw craft workers to produce large straw maypole toppers which were then used as part of the set.

“Suddenly with a plop, the egg landed on the straw. With clucks of pleasure the hen shook her feathers, nudged the egg with her beak, and left,” Goodall wrote almost 60 years later.