GOP senator had his own patients ARRESTED

On Sunday, Trump posted on his failing social media platform, “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine.”

“Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!”

One of the parties hadn’t heard about it. Volodymyr Zelensky said the announcement was “news for me.”

Ukraine would sign on if Moscow did, he said. “If President Trump negotiated it with Putin, please tell us when the ceasefire begins.”

Russia’s answer came the same day. It struck a thermal power plant in Kharkiv, Zelensky said.

Axios reports Russia hasn’t accepted any ceasefire. The White House calls its version “refinery for refinery.” A Ukrainian official pointed out that Ukraine has one damaged refinery. Russia has a whole network.

The Financial Times also reports the U.S. told European countries it might stop selling Ukraine weapons through NATO if Kyiv keeps hitting Russian refineries, the one thing that’s been hurting Putin’s war chest.

All this comes two days after Trump’s diesel deal with Putin. And now senators from his own party say that deal breaks the law.

Seven members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis and John Curtis, said it “runs directly counter” to the 2022 ban on Russian energy imports. “The Administration must immediately reverse course.”

“I believe that he may be,” Tillis said on Meet the Press when asked whether Trump is breaking the law.

“These are bad people hanging out with bad people, putting American lives at risk,” he added.

Trump promised peace in Ukraine on his first day back in office. The ceasefire he posted about lasted a few hours.

On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, Jake Tapper asked Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin about Oscar Belgal, the man ICE agents shot in his car in Marble Hill last week while his 5-year-old son sat in the back seat.

The agents were “a bunch of men not clearly identified as with the government, as with ICE,” Tapper said. “Shouldn’t agents be checking for things like that before they fire into the vehicle?”

“He was a thug, he was a gangbanger,” Mullin said.

Then he turned it on the father. “Why would you ever put your child into a situation like that?”

Tapper also brought up Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, who died in ICE shootings in Texas and Maine in July. “Every time we approach someone it’s fight or flight one hundred percent of the time,” Mullin said.

The same weekend in west Harris County, Texas, an ICE agent hit a 48-year-old man with his vehicle while trying to box in a car.

The man wasn’t even the target. He was the passenger. The driver ICE wanted ran off on foot and is still at large. The passenger is in the hospital with a suspected broken leg, and still in ICE custody.

“We need to know exactly what happened, and ICE’s word alone is not enough,” said Rep. Sylvia Garcia.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s busiest, on Saturday. Saudi officials say 12 people were killed and more than 300 were injured. One of the dead was an American citizen.

The Houthis had already hit the same airport the week before, and the month before that.

Trump says the U.S. “may” respond. “We’re going to look at it.” (Give him two weeks to come up with a plan.)

A day earlier, U.S. Central Command fired a “precision munition” at a Panama-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman that tried to run the U.S. blockade of Iran. “What a disaster,” Sen. Chris Murphy said.

This is the same war Trump said Friday night he’s about to “settle, or win,” in a 590-word post about losing the Nobel Peace Prize.

“In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1.”

Back home, Stephen Miller went on Fox with Lara Trump to say that “the reason we have lower energy prices” than the rest of the developed world “is because of President Trump.”

Diesel is at record highs in farm states. It’s harvest season.

Before he was a senator, Roger Marshall spent 25 years as an obstetrician in Kansas. A new Kansas City Star investigation looked at how he collected on his patients’ bills.

He charged 18% annual interest on unpaid medical bills, the highest rate in the state. The Star looked at about 150 Kansas practices. None charged more than 12%.

The New York Times reported last month that Marshall sued more than 700 patients over debts. At least 81 former patients were arrested.

Court records show his lawyers repeatedly asked judges for arrest warrants when patients missed court dates. The bond money from those arrests went to him, by court order.

Marshall says once the bills “went to collections,” he “had nothing to do with the process.”

He’s now in an unexpectedly tight reelection race in Kansas. Barbara Comstock, a former Republican congresswoman, called his conduct “disgraceful.”

First, do no harm. Then collect the bond money.

Trump was in Tennessee on Saturday, thanking the voters who elected him, when he said the quiet part to their faces. “I could say the stupidest things and you’d clap,” he told the crowd.

In the next breath, he tried to walk it back. “But we don’t say the stupidest things, we say things of common sense.”

On Sunday night he went on Truth Social to insist the rallies are a hit. “Legendary they have already become,” he wrote. People “have been waiting for them to happen.”

“I love them, the music, and the incredible enthusiasm.”

This is the same tour where C-SPAN’s cameras panned across empty seats in San Antonio, and where he couldn’t fill an arena in Alabama.

At least one thing he said in Tennessee was true.

James Talarico, the Democrat running for Senate in Texas, spent nearly two weeks off the trail with the flu. He has Type 1 diabetes, which can drag out a common illness.

“If James Talarico is too fragile to face Texans, he has no business asking for their vote,” a Paxton campaign spokesperson said.

“12 days is a long time to rid yourself of the so-called flu bug,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “What’s going on?”

On Sunday, MAGA influencer Nick Sortor posted that an Ohio mental health facility had confirmed Talarico was discharged from its care. His proof was a 16-second clip of a call with an unnamed hospital employee.

The facility, Lindner Center of Hope, said the same day that Talarico never received treatment there. Talarico says he’s never even been to Ohio.

He was home in Austin. On Friday he showed up at Austin City Limits, and on Saturday at a Kacey Musgraves concert in Dallas.

“It’s a good reminder that you can’t believe everything you read on the internet,” he told NBC 5.

The latest YouGov poll has him ahead of Paxton, 50% to 44%. Paxton’s closing argument is the flu.