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President Donald Trump's current strategy in Iran is leading him into a "trap" of his own making, terrorism expert and legal scholar Robert Pape warned in a segment on CNN Wednesday morning.

This comes amid a growing fear and division among Republicans on the ethical and political advisability of following Trump on his Iran plans.

Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran is causing him to finally understand that his actions have consequences beyond his control, and he is reacting poorly to that realization, a journalist said.

During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ Financial Times editor and longtime columnist Ed Luce claimed the massive jump in oil prices after the Gulf of Hormuz was shut down caused the president to lose it–– which was good news for Iran’s leadership.

President Donald Trump's media allies have been openly revolting over his decision to launch joint military operations with Israel against Iran, and panelists on "CNN This Morning" identified a major move that could crack his coalition apart.

Host Audie Cornish played clips of podcasters Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly – whose name she underlined with a contemptuous laugh – criticizing the war, which Rogan called a betrayal of Trump's campaign promises and Kelly suggested served Israel's interests more than the U.S., and she noted her panelists' reactions to those comments.

Donald Trump’s war on Iran has all of the appearances of being the final straw for the so-called “bro” influencers who helped propel him to his 2024 election victory and now are increasingly turning on him, MS NOW reports.

That is according to the “Morning Joe” panel after watching a clip of massively popular podcaster Joe Rogan blasting the president for military adventurism and wondering why he is blowing up one of his central campaign promises.

A stumbling answer by Donald Trump’s lead international negotiator on Tuesday was the subject of both amusement and disbelief on MS NOW, with the entire panel wondering if the Trump hire, a commercial real estate investor, is way over his head.

During an appearance on CNBC, Steve Witkoff, who is the lead White House diplomat in negotiations dealing with both the war in Ukraine and the US war on Iran, was asked about alarming reports that Russia is giving assistance to Iran on targeting US servicemembers.

One of President Donald Trump's allies in Congress left political analysts aghast on Tuesday after making a startling admission during a Fox News interview.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) joined Jesse Watters on "Jesse Watters Prime Time," where the two discussed the ongoing investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's ranch in New Mexico. The 7,600-acre property, known as Zorro Ranch, was mentioned in multiple allegations against Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. It was recently sold to a Trump ally named Don Huffines, a Republican state representative in Texas.

Nobel Prize-winning economist-turned-political commentator Paul Krugman offered a grim assessment of America's economic prospects if President Donald Trump's war with Iran continues.

Krugman, who wrote a similar warning on his Substack, told MS NOW's Chris Hayes on Tuesday that the longer the war goes on, the greater the likelihood of a global energy crisis that will make the 1970s look like playtime.

New ethics charges filed against President Donald Trump's "attack dog" could expose another one of Trump's allies, according to one expert.

On Tuesday, the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel formally accused Ed Martin, Trump's pardon attorney at the Department of Justice, of ethical violations over threatening letters he sent to Georgetown University's law school regarding its diversity policies. What Martin is being accused of in the letter could also apply to another one of Trump's favorite prosecutors, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro in Washington, D.C., former federal prosecutor Harry Litman suggested during a new podcast interview.

Matt Gaetz, a former MAGA lawmaker and ally of President Donald Trump, was stunned on Tuesday after learning who had been selected as the new Supreme Leader in Iran.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was selected by Iran's Assembly of Experts as the country's next leader. Khamenei has been described by experts as "his father on steroids," and the New York Times described the new Khamenei's reign as a "show of open defiance to Iran’s attackers."

A legal expert appeared astonished on Tuesday by a new report that President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutor in Miami is struggling to indict one of the president's political foes.

CNN reported on Tuesday that U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones in the Southern District of Florida and officials in Trump's Department of Justice have been pushing to indict former CIA Director John Brennan over his involvement in the 2016 investigation into Russia's interference in the general election. However, that push has been thwarted by weak evidence against Brennan, CNN reported.

Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) claimed in an interview released on Tuesday that low-income people don't know how to "navigate the real world" because they're too dependent on the government just handing them money.

"People living in poverty are just not very experienced at navigating the real world, right?" said Husted, who was appointed to the Senate seat held by now-Vice President JD Vance. "I remember talking to one young lady who said, 'Well, I don't really know how money works at a grocery store,' because she grew up and has lived all of her adult life using SNAP cards to buy groceries. You literally have to teach people how to budget."

Pro-Trump country music star John Rich regaled right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren about the time he put "warmonger" Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in his place at a dinner retreat, while Donald Trump watched.

Prior reporting from 2022 describes a heated meeting involving the three in Nashville, as part of a series of secret dinners Trump hosted with his supporters while trying to get together his comeback campaign. Rich and Graham were said to have clashed over Operation Warp Speed, the emergency program Trump put in place to expedite the development of COVID vaccines; Rich railed against vaccination, while Graham defended the vaccines as a signature accomplishment of the Trump administration. Rich has held a grudge against Graham ever since.

A Senate Republican took the Trump administration to task on Tuesday during a new interview with CNN.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) joined CNN's Kasie Hunt on "The Arena" to discuss the strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed about 175 civilians. Last week, a New York Times investigation revealed that American forces likely dropped the bomb on the school as military forces were operating in the area at the time the strike occurred.