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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.

Some stores even staged walkouts, citing the dress code change as the last straw in a slew of new policies Starbucks that employees say are stifling and damaging their ability to properly do their jobs.

The final straw came when a cleaner was filmed restraining the elderly man and violently shaking the bed frame before prodding him with a walking stick.