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Attorney General Pamela Bondi said: "This attempted assassination was not only an attack on our president, but an affront to our very nation itself."

And, arguably, two major affronts to the president's authority.

In Los Angeles County, where one out of every 10 people is an undocumented immigrant and nearly half are Latino, the operations have felt to many like a deeply personal affront.

Her continued insistence of her innocence is a further affront.

The Labour government suspended talks to upgrade that deal in May, with Foreign Secretary David Lammy calling the Israeli treatment of Palestinians "an affront to the values of the British people".