Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) says the men who went public about their relationships with the late Sen. Lindsey Graham deserve praise. She also says their story points to something bigger about who holds power in Washington.

Greene, once one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal allies in Congress, posted a long statement on X Thursday. It drew more than 1.8 million views.

“The worst kept secret in Washington DC came out today because 3 brave men came out and told the truth and it doesn’t matter if it is after he’s dead,” Greene wrote.

She said the men took a risk by going on camera.

“They had to go on camera and tell intimate details of their personal lives. To the world. That is extremely difficult to do,” she wrote. “If you are critical, would you go on camera and tell your secrets to the entire world? I would bet a lot of money you wouldn’t.”

Then she pivoted.

“Ok but there is more to this,” Greene wrote. “Because this is the world I saw up close in Washington. I saw behind the curtain and saw ALL the wizards.”

She claimed, without offering evidence, that “everyone in the highest levels of power in Washington DC are keeping secrets that would destroy their entire lives,” and that those secrets are “levers of control.”

“Keeps them in line. Makes them a team player,” she wrote. “And will make them fight the hardest on issues that don’t make sense in order to keep their secrets just that. Secrets.”

She called that the “most important lesson America needs to learn.” Powerful leaders, she wrote, keep secrets that compromise them “in the most dangerous ways for the security, safety, and prosperity of our nation.”

Greene also blamed voters for keeping those leaders in office.

“I tried my hardest to fight the entire system on both sides of the aisle and couldn’t beat it because YOU ALL keep voting these people back into office and back into power,” she wrote.

Not everyone bought her new posture. Many replies mocked her break from the MAGA movement she once championed.

“Girl you spent years selling tickets to the show,” one user wrote in response.

President Donald Trump’s full-throated defense of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and his push for Republicans to rally around him, has some in the party chafing, according to CNN.

In an analysis, CNN’s Aaron Blake wrote that Trump’s “latest move is trying to bully Republicans into embracing a highly controversial political ad.” Blake argued the president has been causing headaches for his party for months, “even long after most presidents would’ve taken the Election Day cue to rein themselves in.”

The ad from Ramaswamy, a Republican, features the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, calling Acton a liar. Ramaswamy’s campaign has confirmed it made the ad. Acton has said she hasn’t seen her mother since she was 12, when her mother lost custody of her children and the man she married was indicted for allegedly sexually abusing Acton, CNN reported.

Blake wrote that Trump defended the ad Thursday and "urged Republicans" to own it. According to Blake, Trump told an Iowa rally crowd that Ramaswamy had called him for advice on "whether to take it down," and that he told him to leave it up. Asked about criticism from Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), the Republican Senate candidate in Iowa, Trump said, “That’s her opinion,” ABC News reported.

Hinson told ABC’s Jonathan Karl, “I think they should take the ad down.” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R),), who endorsed Ramaswamy, said the campaign “needs to take it down.” “It’s wrong to run this ad,” DeWine told reporters. Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) said, “I would not have run that ad,” ABC reported.

Vice President JD Vance has defended the ad. He said he was “disgusted” by the Republican pushback, ABC reported.

Blake wrote that it is “one thing” for Husted and other Ohio Republicans to speak out, “another for a key GOP candidate from outside Ohio’s borders to openly criticize it.” He added that Trump “is essentially asking his party to own something that it’s clearly very uncomfortable owning, just to help one candidate who might or might not benefit from it.”

Several senior Trump administration officials expressed fears that the president’s next move may very well send the U.S. and global economies “further cratering,” Zeteo reported Friday.

According to multiple reports citing Trump administration officials, the president appears poised to renew attacks on Iran in a matter of days. Earlier this month, the Pentagon instructed U.S. Central Command to finish preparations for resuming major combat operations, and on Thursday, The Atlantic reported that President Donald Trump was “considering” authorizing “several days of strikes.”

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, several senior Trump administration officials warned that such a move could prove disastrous on multiple fronts.

“Several senior officials I spoke to are (to put it mildly) massively skeptical that revving Trump’s war machine back up will bring about the (supposedly) intended result of forcing the Iranian government to make significant concessions and end the war in Trump’s favor,” Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng reported.

“These officials also fear a further cratering of the U.S. and global economies, which have already suffered significantly during the oil crisis and other shockwaves caused by Trump’s war and Iran’s shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz. (This is to say nothing of the likelihood of a growing death toll in multiple nations, the danger to U.S. troops, and other inevitabilities if Trump keeps at it.)”

Iranian officials have already made clear that a U.S. attack would be met with an immediate response, including the destruction of Middle East oil facilities, submarine communication cables and AI facilities and data centers in the region.

“In the event of a war, cables, datacentres and artificial intelligence facilities could also be targeted. If the conflict breaks out again, we will have a broader plan,” said Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, according to Iranian state media.

“There can be no arrangement in which Iran’s economic lifelines come under attack while the economic architecture enabling those attacks is considered untouched and immune.”