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Trump bites rat
The US president is taking aim at the workers’ redoubtable rodent ally – but who will burst first, asks SOLOMON HUGHES

DONALD TRUMP’S anti-union hit man is out to puncture one of the workers’ best friends — a giant inflatable rat.
It shows that the right likes to make a noise about “free speech,” but when the workers want to speak out, it reaches for the law to shut them up.
British people might be familiar with the eight-foot inflatable rat from campaigns supported by the trade union Unite.
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