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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced he was "no longer MAGA," even though he was headed to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to ask President Donald Trump for a pardon.

While guest-hosting for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday, Rhodes revealed that he had broken with Trump over the war in Iran.

Far-right activists are doubling down on mass deportations as a midterm rallying cry after a White House official reportedly urged Republican lawmakers to stop discussing Trump's aggressive immigrant roundup campaign—a move that risks deepening fractures within the MAGA movement over an issue the president once wielded as his signature strength.

The pressure campaign comes as Trump's approval ratings on immigration plummet, battered by the brutal tactics of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agents conducting sweeps across American cities. The White House is now in full damage-control mode ahead of the midterms, attempting to quiet the issue.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) confronted Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) after crashing his press conference on funding the Transportation Security Administration amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.

Before Cornyn could begin his press conference at the airport in Austin, Casar began speaking to members of the media. The incident was caught on video by Texas Tribune correspondent Kayla Guo.

Charlie Kirk Show hosts Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet pressed for the defeat of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), an ally of President Donald Trump, by hosting his two opponents, Paul Davis and Mark Lynch.

"I have been very loud about my criticisms of Sen. Lindsey Graham, the neocon warmonger from South Carolina, who has just seemed to stay in office for a very long time," Kolvet said on Monday's broadcast. "Charlie Kirk — Charlie always called him Lady Graham, as he called it... I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of people call him."

The White House reacted angrily Monday after a report revealed Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, has been privately texting Iranian officials in the hopes of resuming peace negotiations — but the texts have been ignored.

While Trump has maintained that Iranian officials are pushing for negotiations to resume, saying as recently as Sunday night that they “want to negotiate badly,” a report Monday from Drop Site News would seem to suggest otherwise.

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.