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In today’s ‘First Draft,’ the MAGA Republican Party remains quiet about Rep. Randy Fine’s latest Islamophobic attacks, a horrendous president shows us how deep the GOP rot has gotten, and Trump officials deport a 2-month-old baby with bronchitis – because they are bad people.

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When Even Megyn Kelly Thinks You’re Too Islamophobic

Randy Fine, the most racist lawmaker in Congress, has finally uttered something disturbing and genocidal enough to attract widespread, bipartisan condemnation – though top Republican leaders remain conspicuously silent.

“If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,” the MAGA freshman congressman tweeted over the weekend. While Fine has doubled and tripled down on social media, he appears to be feeling some heat – that is, if we are to read anything into his effort to try to lie his way out of this controversy on Newsmax.

“People should know Democrats like AOC are saying, ‘We are going to get