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Disgraced crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried is betting that Trump's well-documented willingness to pardon allies who lavish praise on his administration will extend to him, even as influential Republicans urge the president to reject his bid for freedom.

Bankman-Fried, 32, is currently serving a 25-year sentence handed down in March 2024 for orchestrating a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme through his now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

According to Politico, the jailed executive's legal team is aggressively lobbying Trump and his crypto-friendly inner circle for a pardon — a move that's already drawing pushback from Republicans who built their political brands on cryptocurrency advocacy.

"The guy's a piece of s--t," said Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), a longtime crypto enthusiast who has championed industry-friendly legislation. "The guy shouldn't be pardoned. The guy should go to jail for a long, long time."

From behind bars, Bankman-Fried has mounted a calculated charm offensive on X. His account has lauded the Trump administration's drug pricing initiative, praised Trump's economic stewardship, and positioned the president as crypto's savior. He's also given a jailhouse interview to Tucker Carlson, where he blamed his conviction on "Biden's lawfare machine," drawing a parallel to the federal indictments Trump faced after leaving office.

"I hope the president doesn't fall for that," said Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Wyoming Republican known as the Senate's "crypto queen." "He hurt a lot of people. He should have to spend some time contemplating that."

Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska, a rising Republican voice on the House Financial Services Committee, expressed disbelief at the brazenness of Bankman-Fried's pardon campaign.

"He crashed the car, man. He engaged in massive fraud," he said. "Wall Street's not needing him back to fix any problems. He helped us identify a problem by committing a massive amount of fraud — and we rewarded him with a long stay in a federal prison."

Trump has already demonstrated a willingness to pardon controversial crypto figures. He granted clemency to Changpeng Zhao, former CEO of the crypto exchange Binance, who pleaded guilty in 2023 to money laundering-related charges.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) declared MAGA to be “done” with President Donald Trump on Monday after the president weighed in on an ongoing feud between two prominent conservative media figures — and apparently took the wrong side.

Conservative media figures Mark Levin and Megyn Kelly have been engaged in a bitter feud that kicked off over the weekend after Kelly shared a news article detailing the motivations behind the man who staged an attack on a Michigan synagogue last week.

Iran's new supreme leader has been secretly evacuated to Moscow for medical treatment, according to reports.

The Kyiv Post reported that Mojtaba Khamenei was taken to Russia for treatment of wounds suffered in the first day of a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation that killed his father and other top leaders in the Islamic Republic, according to a senior source cited by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida.

President Donald Trump announced that he had "essentially" won the war against Iran and complained that it was "unfair" for the country to close its Strait of Hormuz after the so-called victory.

During a press conference on Monday, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump why he could not immediately open the Strait.

President Donald Trump drew audible gasps while speaking at the Kennedy Center on Monday after apparently revealing that a GOP lawmaker had received a “terminal” diagnosis and was expected to be “dead by June.”

Sitting beside House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Trump was discussing the Republican Party’s slim majority in the House and how the deaths of several GOP members in recent years have made it harder for Republican speakers to advance the president’s agenda.

President Donald Trump revealed on social media Monday that Susie Wiles, his White House chief of staff, was diagnosed with breast cancer, and that she would be starting treatment “immediately” while remaining at the White House “virtually full time.”

“Susie Wiles is an incredible Chief of Staff, a great person, and one of the strongest people I know but, unfortunately, she has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, and has decided to take on this challenge, IMMEDIATELY, as opposed to waiting,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) criticized President Donald Trump for backtracking on campaign promises to end foreign wars.

During a Monday interview on CNN, host Pamela Brown asked Greene if she regretted campaigning for Trump following the launch of Operation Epic Fury in Iran.