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The Biden administration’s top spy is so low-key, it’s hard for some to tell whether she is (or isn’t) on Twitter.

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Matthew Calamari, now a top executive at the Trump Org, and his son, who heads up security at the company, have already lawyered up.

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Julia Yonkowski said she wouldn’t take the cash “because it’s not my money.”

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