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March 21, 2026

Netflix series airs video that puts Trump's striking decline on full display

It is clear that trump is suffering severe mental decline

A new documentary focused on billionaire news mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family has also revealed the stunning mental and physical decline of President Donald Trump as questions over his health escalate, according to a report from The i Paper on Friday.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-20T20:00:13Z

https://www.rawstory.com/netflix-murdoch-trump-health-decline/

A new documentary focused on billionaire news mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family has also revealed the stunning mental and physical decline of President Donald Trump as questions over his health escalate, according to a report from The i Paper on Friday.

Netflix's "Dynasty: The Murdochs" takes a close look at the Murdochs and Trump — his ascendance from a TV celebrity and real estate magnate to the Republican Party's leader. But shocking footage in the series revealed just how much the president has changed, with a comparison of video footage from 10 years ago compared to recent clips of the 79-year-old, according to the report.

The video highlights how much Trump's speaking, bizarre statements and focus have dramatically shifted.

"But perhaps most striking for many Trump watchers is footage from the first debate of the Republican presidential candidates for the 2016 election, which features a coherent and effective – albeit often offensive – performance by Trump, who scored win after win against his opponents," The iPaper reported.

Trump has faced ongoing speculation about his physical and mental fitness, with critics pointing to his frequent verbal snafus, rambling speech patterns and apparent difficulty concentrating during public appearances — sometimes falling asleep during meetings and press conferences.

Medical experts and observers have noted instances where he has stumbled over words, contradicted himself within minutes, and displayed confusion during complex policy discussions. Supporters have argued that such observations are politically motivated, while medical professionals have raised concerns about the cumulative effect of age and stress on cognitive function.
March 21, 2026

Former special counsel Robert Mueller has died

Mueller, who served as special counsel in the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, was 81.

A new documentary focused on billionaire news mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family has also revealed the stunning mental and physical decline of President Donald Trump as questions over his health escalate, according to a report from The i Paper on Friday.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-20T20:00:13Z

https://www.ms.now/news/former-special-counsel-robert-mueller-has-died

Robert Mueller, who served as special counsel in the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, died on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. He was 81.

The cause of death was not immediately known, but Mueller had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for years, the people said.

Mueller, whose two-year probe concluded in 2019 that Russia had interfered in the election with the intent benefitting President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, served as FBI director from 2001 to 2013. The Justice Department in 2017 appointed him special counsel to oversee the growing investigation after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
March 21, 2026

Former special counsel Robert Mueller has died

Source: MS NOW

Robert Mueller, who served as special counsel in the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, died on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. He was 81.

The cause of death was not immediately known, but Mueller had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for years, the people said.

Mueller, whose two-year probe concluded in 2019 that Russia had interfered in the election with the intent benefitting President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, served as FBI director from 2001 to 2013. The Justice Department in 2017 appointed him special counsel to oversee the growing investigation after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/former-special-counsel-robert-mueller-has-died



BREAKING: Former FBI director and special counsel Robert Swan Mueller III has died. He was 81. www.ms.now/news/former-...

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-03-21T17:07:51.094Z
March 21, 2026

Jerome Powell was awarded the Kennedy Profile in Courage Award

This will piss off trump

March 21, 2026

Paxton PAC buys more anti-Cornyn ads for Mar-A-Lago

Paxton really wants trump's endorsement.

Paxton PAC buys more anti-Cornyn ads for Mar-A-Lago: The Lone Star Liberty PAC, a super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has launched a new advertising campaign in the Palm Beach media market, specifically targeting President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resi… https://ranked.news/358036?u=b

Ranked News (@rankednews.bsky.social) 2026-03-21T00:01:11.835Z

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/20/2026/ken-paxton-pac-buys-more-anti-cornyn-ads-for-mar-a-lago

A super PAC supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is buying new ads in the Palm Beach media market, trying again to get President Donald Trump’s attention at Mar-a-Lago while his endorsement in the state’s Senate race remains unsettled.

The Lone Star Liberty PAC’s four-figure weekend spending Saturday and Sunday in West Palm Beach, is the second time the PAC has bought TV time specifically to get a message to Trump. Last week it condemned Paxton’s runoff opponent, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, for voting to confirm law enforcement officials who went on to investigate Trump.

Its newest ad claims that Cornyn only endorsed Trump-backed legislation requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration because the incumbent was losing to Paxton in polls ahead of their May runoff. The spot will air on Fox News, Golf Channel, TBS, TNT, and TRU, with a specific buy on Fox News Sunday on broadcast — prime Trump viewing time.

“Senator Cornyn – this is not him,” Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett says in the ad — a clip of a Democrat Trump has personally ridiculed to drive the point home.
March 21, 2026

Paxton PAC buys more anti-Cornyn ads for Mar-A-Lago

Paxton really wants trump's endorsement.

Paxton PAC buys more anti-Cornyn ads for Mar-A-Lago: The Lone Star Liberty PAC, a super PAC backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has launched a new advertising campaign in the Palm Beach media market, specifically targeting President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resi… https://ranked.news/358036?u=b

Ranked News (@rankednews.bsky.social) 2026-03-21T00:01:11.835Z

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/20/2026/ken-paxton-pac-buys-more-anti-cornyn-ads-for-mar-a-lago

A super PAC supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is buying new ads in the Palm Beach media market, trying again to get President Donald Trump’s attention at Mar-a-Lago while his endorsement in the state’s Senate race remains unsettled.

The Lone Star Liberty PAC’s four-figure weekend spending Saturday and Sunday in West Palm Beach, is the second time the PAC has bought TV time specifically to get a message to Trump. Last week it condemned Paxton’s runoff opponent, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, for voting to confirm law enforcement officials who went on to investigate Trump.

Its newest ad claims that Cornyn only endorsed Trump-backed legislation requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration because the incumbent was losing to Paxton in polls ahead of their May runoff. The spot will air on Fox News, Golf Channel, TBS, TNT, and TRU, with a specific buy on Fox News Sunday on broadcast — prime Trump viewing time.

“Senator Cornyn – this is not him,” Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett says in the ad — a clip of a Democrat Trump has personally ridiculed to drive the point home.
March 21, 2026

Trump sparks outrage with 'creepy' 24K gold coin design for America's 250th birthday

These coins are illegal unless trump is dead

President Donald Trump's administration sparked outrage on Thursday after it unveiled a "creepy" and "illegal" design for a 24K gold coin to commemorate America's 250th birthday.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-20T15:05:16Z

President Donald Trump's administration sparked outrage on Thursday after it unveiled a "creepy" and "illegal" design for a 24K gold coin to commemorate America's 250th birthday.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-20T15:05:16Z


President Donald Trump's administration sparked outrage on Thursday after it unveiled a "creepy" and "illegal" design for a 24K gold coin to commemorate America's 250th birthday.

The Commission of Fine Arts approved a coin design featuring Trump hunched over, his fists on a desk. It also features a slender-looking characterization of Trump and 13 stars to represent the 13 original colonies. The commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said the coin should be "as large as possible," CNN reported.

“I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” McCrery said.....

"This. Is. Literally. Illegal," Marine veteran Jay Mallow posted on X.

"No remote historical basis for this cultish usurpation and personalization of a national celebration unrelated to Voldemort. Absurd," author Dr. Oswald Sobrino posted on X.
March 21, 2026

Trump appears unaware governors don't hand down prison sentences in wild Tina Peters post

trump is an idiot. trump thought that he could pardon Peters

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to demand the release of convicted Colorado election official Tina Peters — while apparently not knowing that governors don't sentence people to prison.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-19T20:30:12.956Z

https://www.rawstory.com/tina-peters-2676313782

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to demand the release of convicted Colorado election official Tina Peters — while apparently not knowing that governors don't sentence people to prison.

"FREE TINA PETERS, A 73-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, WITH CANCER, GIVEN A NINE YEAR DEATH SENTENCE IN A COLORADO PRISON BY A DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR, JARED POLIS, AND A CORRUPT POLITICAL MACHINE, FOR EXPOSING FRAUD BY THE DEMOCRATS DURING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION," Trump wrote in all caps on his social media platform.

There's just one problem: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis didn't sentence Peters. A jury convicted her, and a judge handed down the nine-year sentence after she was found guilty of tampering with voting equipment in Mesa County following the 2020 election, the same election Trump has falsely claimed was stolen.

Peters — who is 70 years old, not 73, as Trump claimed — was convicted in August 2024 on four felony and three misdemeanor counts related to her efforts to allow an unauthorized person to copy the hard drives of voting machines in her county. She has maintained that the actions were aimed at exposing election fraud, a claim courts have rejected.

Polis is a two-term Democratic governor who has occasionally broken with his party and even signaled his willingness to commute Peters' sentence, so long as she shows some remorse.
March 20, 2026

Elon Musk and SEC in talks to settle lawsuit over Twitter deal

Musk violated one of the key provisions of the securities law designed to protect shareholders. I am a corporate law/securities lawyer. It is well established law that one has to make a public report with the Securities and Exchange Commission when they have more than 5% of the stock of a public company. When one is doing a public takeover, you time the moment that you go over 5% carefully and after you cross that threshold, there is race to buy as much stock as possible.

Elon Musk ignore this statutory requirement. The court is right that Musk broke the law and has no excuse. By breaking the law, Musk admits that he save himself $150 million in the takeover of Twitter, Inc. See https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220993248
Musk is trying to settle this judgement

Elon Musk and SEC in talks to settle lawsuit over Twitter deal

CNBC (@cnbc.com) 2026-03-17T19:47:05Z

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/elon-musk-sec-in-talks-to-settle-government-lawsuit-over-twitter-deal.html

Elon Musk is in talks with the ​Securities and ‌Exchange Commission to settle a lawsuit filed by the regulator last year accusing the world’s richest person of violating securities law in the run-up to his Twitter buyout.

In a court ⁠filing on Tuesday, the SEC revealed that it is “engaged in discussions of a potential resolution that would mean further ⁠proceedings might not be necessary” with Musk.

The SEC initially filed the suit in January 2025, and the case is proceeding in a federal court in Washington, D.C. A separate, class-action lawsuit filed by former Twitter investors against Musk is now winding its way through a federal court in San Francisco, with a jury expected to deliberate soon.

Musk, who is CEO of Tesla
and SpaceX, purchased Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and changed its name to X the following year. Prior to the acquisition, he’d built up a position in the company of greater than 5%, which would’ve required disclosing his holdings to the public within 10 calendar days of reaching that threshold. He was late to file that disclosure.

The SEC said in its complaint that Musk’s failure to disclose the stake allowed him to buy shares at “artificially low prices,” putting other investors at a disadvantage.
March 20, 2026

Afroman prevails in defamation trial over songs about police raid on his home

The case, which explored questions about free speech and the limits of artistic criticism, has also catapulted the rapper back into pop culture’s lexicon.

Jury sides with speech.
Afroman prevails in defamation trial over songs about police raid on his home
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T10:19:05.448Z

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/18/afroman-lawsuit-deputies-raid-ohio/

After Afroman’s Ohio home was raided by police and searched for evidence of drug trafficking and kidnapping in the summer of 2022, the rap wonder of the early 2000s channeled his frustration into lyrically explicit song.

Several songs, in fact, on an album titled “Lemon Pound Cake,” a derogatory reference to one of the sheriff’s deputies who busted down his front door after a judge granted a warrant, seizing money and disconnecting his security cameras. Afroman — legal name Joseph Foreman — was never criminally charged, and “Lemon Pound Cake” became his public condemnation of the deputies and their tactics.

Then seven of those deputies sued him for defamation, and Afroman spent the past few days in Adams County defending his art at trial — and prevailing. After hours of deliberation Wednesday, the jury ruled in Afroman’s favor on all counts, disagreeing with the deputies’ allegations that the rapper had violated their rights and owed them millions of dollars in monetary damages.....

Then seven of those deputies sued him for defamation, and Afroman spent the past few days in Adams County defending his art at trial — and prevailing. After hours of deliberation Wednesday, the jury ruled in Afroman’s favor on all counts, disagreeing with the deputies’ allegations that the rapper had violated their rights and owed them millions of dollars in monetary damages.....

Afroman’s attorney, David Osborne, had a different narrative. Fundamentally, the case was about free speech and musical expression, he told the jurors, offering them a brief history of songwriting and lyrical disagreement. They didn’t have to like what the rapper sang, but he argued that they needed to affirm he had a right to say it.

Osborne pointed to Afroman, wearing the same American flag suit he had worn the day before, and said: “Does this look like a man who thinks that everybody’s going to assume that everything he’s saying is fact?”

How did this case make it to a jury? I admit that I had fun watching some of the clips of the trial including the "cross-examination" of the artist. How did these patrol officers find an attorney to take this case? How could any attorney who took Constitutional law think that this case had merit.

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