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Greg Sergeant.

This week Donald Trump erupted at Fox News not once but twice.

He raged over a Fox News poll that found President Biden leading Trump nationally

and lashed out at the network for featuring a guest who was critical of him.

This is an occasion to revisit one of this podcast's favorite topics,

the centrality of sheer grift to the Trump MAGA project.

Trump regularly rages at Fox when it doesn't read from his precise script,

which is remarkable given that Fox is usually fully committed to deceiving its viewers on his behalf.

But both Trump and Fox draw on a long history in which grift and scams have been

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