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Thank you very much for your support. This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sergeant. 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 Marilago 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 and 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.

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