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Fox News host Sean Hannity railed against Marco Rubio on Wednesday night for his intensifying attacks on Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Hannity unloads on Rubio

Fox News host Sean Hannity railed against Marco Rubio on Wednesday night for his intensifying attacks on Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Rubio has relentlessly gone after the businessman since last week’s Republican debate, mocking his hair and the size of his hands, invoking his failed business ventures and questionable hiring practices, and even ridiculing the billionaire on stage at a rally by reading his misspelled tweets aloud.

Hannity suggested Rubio — the “hired gun” to take out the insurgent Trump — had worn out those attacks but would use the same rhetoric in Thursday’s Republican debate.

“That’s not Marco,” Hannity said during a panel discussion on his show. “To me, it seems like the establishment is putting all this in his head. He’s regurgitating it and being somebody that he’s not.”

Hannity said Rubio’s onslaught is “turning into a suicide mission.” He speculated Rubio “is being fed this” and was “probably promised a lot of money” to go after Trump this way and slammed a pro-Rubio super PAC for running an ad on Trump’s refusal to disavow the Ku Klux Klan.

“Maybe it’s my conspiratorial mind,” Hannity began. “I think this is orchestrated, well-funded and well organized.”

As for Trump, Hannity lavished praise on the billionaire real estate showman for his Super Tuesday victory speech.

“Donald Trump showed a side of himself last night — I’m speaking objectively here. I’m not taking sides in this,” Hannity said. “But Donald Trump showed a side of him that was very different last night. You could even use the word 'presidential' in the way he approached. He was magnanimous when it comes to Ted Cruz and his victories, how tough it is to run for president, you know, and what I’m watching here is the kitchen sink, scorched earth, MMA bare-knuckle brawl, thorough nuclear attacks.”

The sharp criticism of the Florida senator, who has only won a single state in the Republican primary, comes after Rubio reportedly lost the network’s support. And it follows several tweets from Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox's parent company, who signaled it was time for the party to stop attacking Trump and "unify" if he becomes the GOP's inevitable nominee.

