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DILANIAN: “You know, it’s perilous to be an armchair psychologist, but he’s a complicated figure, right? He was a Secret Service agent for many years. So he was a law enforcement officer, presumably he’s a patriot, and now he’s helping to lead the nation’s foremost law enforcement agency around a lot of people who are patriots and trying to do the right thing. But he spent years calling that agency corrupt, and people lauded him for that, and he made a lot of money doing that. And so, now he’s torn. So he’s getting hatred from circles or people that used to love him, but at the same time, he’s trying to, you know, do the right thing in the job that he’s holding. And, you know, what I’ve seen is that sometimes they indulge and they allow themselves to engage in these conspiracy theories, as with, for example, election fraud. They’re not letting go of that one. But in this case, they’ve decided for whatever reason that they just cannot carry these theories on anymore and they have to tell the public the truth. And boy, are they paying for it in MAGA world.”