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The organisation's founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman said this treatment included being forced to wait for hours on the tarmac at the airport, being denied food provided by the group and "using every excuse in the book to prevent these passengers from disembarking".

When former President Bill Clinton made his way across the tarmac in Phoenix to say hello to Attorney General Loretta Lynch during his wife’s 2016 presidential campaign, it was a national story.

The proles languishing on the tarmac for hours can take heart—your suffering is an assist to the Democratic brand.

Then, they were forced to sit on the tarmac and wait a little more.

"We cannot control the trade policy of the United States," he told reporters on the tarmac before boarding his flight to attend two regional summits in Asia.