Outside the Beltway

Why roll with the facts when you can confuse your supporters with conspiracy theories?

Conspiracy theories are poisoning the United States. That’s no joke.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

The GA14 House race.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

In a new court filing, House Democrats hint they might move to impeach the President again if the evidence warrants such action.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

The House Judiciary Committee has issued its report on the impeachment of President Trump.

The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the Articles of Impeachment against the President that it will vote on later this week.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

Seeking to have a US citizen investigated by a foreign government based on innuendo is a major problem.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

After two weeks of hearings, public opinion has not moved very much on the impeachment of the President.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

An ongoing attempt to summarize the complex.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the European Union provides yet more evidence to support impeachment of the President.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

Public resources do not belong to the president to use for private gain.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

Day two of Congressional impeachment hearings will be marked by the testimony of the former American Ambassador to Ukraine.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

Caught in the middle of the Ukraine scandal, the President”s lawyer has gotten his own lawyers.

Get the popcorn and your favorite beverage ready.

The proof of a quid pro quo is coming from inside the President’s own Administration.

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

A current defense of Trump raises an ancient political question.

A top U.S. diplomat involved in Ukraine policy confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo regarding U.S aid to Ukraine.

The third part of a long, but connected, set of thoughts.

New testimony from a former Trump adviser details how Rudy Giuliani was able to hijek American foreign policy.

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, had a lot to say when she testified before Congress yesterday.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation by the same office he once headed as U.S. Attorney.

Two associates of President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani were arrested on their way out of the country, and the question is what connection Giuliani may have to the reasons behind their arrest.

Donald Trump is now committing his crimes in public.

It’s not just Ukraine.

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

A little bit of this for a little bit of that.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.