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The NHS and the rest of the public sector will be shielded from the rise, but GP practices, run as businesses but delivering NHS services, will be impacted.

Even if Trump lost the election, that opinion could have shielded the former president from much of the pending criminal case for his alleged scheme to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.

“You have a pretty good angle straight on to the left tackle and the right defensive end so you can see that coming ... but whenever he hits them in the helmet — helmet to helmet — you’re shielded by the quarterback so that’s a tough one to pick up.”

His own former chief of staff has described him as a “fascist,” and over the summer, the Supreme Court shielded Trump from prosecution for any crimes committed in the course of “official acts” as president.

The justices ruled in a 5-4 vote that the proposed settlement, which would have paid $10 billion to victims, was not viable because it would have shielded the Sackler family, the billionaire owners of Purdue, from further liability even though the family did not file for bankruptcy.