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In recent days, the level of MAGA deception seems to have truly gone nuclear,

and at the center of it all is President Biden's age.

Fox News's Sean Hannity floated a strange new theory about Biden's upcoming debate with Donald Trump.

Republicans dishonestly sliced and diced numerous videos to make Biden look befuddled, diminished, and

senile, and we learned that the Sinclair media apparatus is blaring out all that deception

to huge audiences nationally. Today we're trying to make sense of all this with well-known

writer and podcaster Tom Hartman, author of a New Republic piece called,

From the Border to Bumpstocks, the MAGA lie machine is heating up. It argues we're close to

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