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Trump admin offers blunt advice to White House UFC critics as 11th-hour lawsuit looms

Trump administration officials fired back at critics of the planned White House UFC fight, arguing they can simply avoid the event rather than use an 11th-hour lawsuit to block thousands of spectators from gathering on the South Lawn."It would be easy enough to simply avert their gazes for the weekend," Department of Justice attorneys wrote in a court filing this week. "Instead, they seek to enlist the power of a federal court to impose their idiosyncratic preferences on the rest of the country and ruin an event designed to celebrate the United States of America."Preparations for the UFC match...