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MAGA Republicans are floating an insane new conspiracy theory.

President Biden's FBI was ready to, quote, take out Donald Trump when agents searched Maralago for the documents

that Trump stole. Take out are Trump's words. This idea is based on a wildly absurd reading of

FBI policy, yet many Republicans are now pushing this with abandon. We think this saga actually

says something important about the fascistic

politics that Trump and his MAGA allies engage in regularly. To explain how, we're talking

to Federico Finkelstein, a history professor at the new school who specializes in fascism studies.

He is the author of a great new piece in the New Republic's new issue

on American fascism, which will also be discussing. Federico, great to have you on. Oh, thank you for

inviting me. Okay, so let's first talk about this episode. Trump and Republicans are seizing on

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