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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Amid the daily parade of outrages from Donald Trump, you may have missed this one. Trump and

many of his media propagandists are suggesting that the FBI under President Biden was set to use

lethal force against Trump when it searched Mar-a-Lago

last year. This story was literally summoned into existence by right-wing media, with Fox News

playing a crucial role. And we think this episode is a telling one, because it shows what

extraordinary lengths Trump's media propagandists will go to in order to create the

reality he commands them to create for him. Today we're discussing this with Brian Stelter, a longtime media

reporter who has a great new piece on Trump and the media in the New Republic's new American

fascism issue. He's going to help us dig into the larger context

here, what the right-wing media has become under Trump, and what Trump will try to do to non-compliant

mainstream media sources if he wins the White House. Welcome, Brian. Great to be here, although,

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