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A Republican member of Congress spurred outrage Wednesday with a political assassination joke broadly condemned by people who include a onetime co-defendant of former President Donald Trump and a Democratic strategist. It also garnered applause from MAGA right pundits. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) appeared to be riffing on presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly reported statement that a worm ate part of his brain and died. “You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain,” Collins wrote, “or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain.” Collins made this statement…

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