Outside the Beltway

A new report raises an old question that’s now irrelevant.

In a rare public statement, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is disputing reports that the President directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

Once again, Rudy Giuliani is contradicting his client.

Ann Althouse hits a blogging anniversary.

Federal employees deemed “essential” missed a paycheck yesterday in violation of US labor law.

Not surprisingly, President Trump significantly accelerated the pace of his lies in 2018.

The fact that this President is a congenital liar is well-known. The actual number of lies less than two years into his Presidency, though, is astounding.

President Trump tried to get into the Christmas spirit last night. He failed.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

The scandal-plagued Secretary of the Interior is leaving office at the end of the year.

Trump has selected current Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to replace John Kelly as Chief of Staff, but that’s unlikely to change how the West Wing operates.

This time, the rumors about John Kelly leaving appear to be true.

There’s yet another rumor that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly could be on the way out.

Now that’s a lot of beef.

Apparently, this is a thing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Donald Trump is engaging in another round of baseless and bizarre conspiracy theories about alleged voter fraud.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

A glance at Memeorandum demonstrates a problem that we’ve mentioned numerous times over the years.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.

A new report says that the Trump Administration lobbied the National Park Service to edit photos of the crowd at President Trump’s Inauguration.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Social media has altered the way writers and readers interact in odd ways.

There was a time when Mike Pence believed that a President’s personality morality and trustworthiness mattered. He clearly doesn’t believe that anymore.

The frequency and ease with which this President lies is, to say the least, alarming.

The man who knows all of Donald Trump’s financial secrets has been called to testify before the Grand Jury investigating Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.

After months of allegations regarding improper use of taxpayer dollars and the use of agency resources and personnel for personal needs, he is finally out.

In a new interview, former Trump attorney and ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen gives the strongest signal yet that he’s ready to cooperate with investigators.

Pending the mere formality of approval by the Governor-General, Canada will soon become the largest nation in the world where recreational use of marijuana is legal.

John Kelly is nearing the end of his first year as White House Chief of Staff, and it’s becoming apparent that his mission to bring order to a disordered White House has failed.

Both President Trump and Ivanka Trump are profiting handsomely from their time in the White House.

The President tears up every piece of paper he touches. A whole department is taping them back together for the National Archives.

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill appears to be running up against President Trump’s bizarre affinity for Andrew Jackson.

More than a decade ago, Donald Trump revealed one of his secrets to success. Exhaust your enemies. It explains much of what has happened since he took office.

With the President’s “Spygate” allegations standing largely discredited, his attorney and at the moment chief spokesperson Rudy Giuliani admits that the entire conspiracy theory was created to discredit the Mueller investigation.

Donald Trump chose to mark Memorial Day by talking about himself.

If you have a non-alphanumeric character in your name, your comment goes into moderation.

Mike Pence’s obsequiousness to his master knows no limits.

John McCain continues to bravely battle an aggressive form of brain cancer, but he’s already made clear that he doesn’t want the 45th President of the United States at his funeral.

The facts in the Stormy Daniels affair continue to move in a direction that doesn’t look good for the President.

President Trump has told an astonishingly large number of lies since taking office.

Remember Donald Trump’s strange doctor? Well, things just got stranger;.

More signs of tension between President Trump and his Chief of Staff.

Despite the fact that President Trump’s continues to praise him, Ronny Jackson will not be returning to the White House as the President’s personal physician.

President Trump may be looking to push Chief of Staff John Kelly aside by giving him a next to impossible job.

There has been a massive layoff at the Republican website. Everyone who criticized the President is gone.

Not unexpectedly, Ronny Jackson has withdrawn his nomination to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.