Outside the Beltway

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly looking at the President’s Twitter feed as part of his ongoing investigation.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

At a minimum, Trump is betraying his oath of office. That is one hell of a minimum.

The Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued indictments against twelve Russian intelligence officials for election-related hacking, and in the process has shown most of the arguments made by the President and his surrogates regarding the Russia investigation are nonsense.

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

America promised immigrants who volunteered to serve in our military a fast track to citizenship. Now, we’re throwing them out.

Recent polling finds that Americans aren’t feeling quite so patriotic right now. It’s understandable, but we shouldn’t give up hope.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that former F.B.I. Director James Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in regard to the Clinton email investigation, but found no evidence of political bias at the Bureau.

Based on a strict reading of the Constitution, a sitting President probably does have the power to pardon himself. That doesn’t mean he should be allowed to get away with it without consequence.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

How far should judicial confirmation hearings go in asking potential Judges and Justices their opinions about issues that may come before them?

Trump suffered another court loss yesterday that opens him up to some potentially embarrassing questions.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

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

Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.

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

Michael Cohen will invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment in response to any questions asked in discovery in the civil suit filed against him by Stormy Daniels. That’s really the only option he has.

It’s a valid question, but one should also be careful about drawing conclusions based on how a person in Trump’s position acts.

The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. As a legal document, it appears to be little more than a political stunt.

Rudy Giuliani is joining President Trump’s legal team but it’s unclear what he actually brings to that team.

CNN reports that the Interior Secretary, who claims to be a “geologist,” merely has a geology degree.

President Trump is on the attack against James Comey as the former F.B.I. Director begins his book tour.

Hang on, the ride on the Trump Train is about to get a lot bumpier.

Donald Trump broke his silence on Stormy Daniels. That was a bad idea.

A Federal Judge is allowing a lawsuit alleging that President Trump is improperly benefiting from business being done at the hotel in Washington, D.C. bearing his name to go forward.

John Dowd allegedly raised the possibility while the Mueller investigation was closing in on the two presidential advisors.

A state trial court Judge in New York has ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed in Manhattan against President Trump can go forward.

The network’s longtime “strategic analyst” is “ashamed” of his association because they’ve become a “propaganda machine.”

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.

The statute of limitations has expired. But he should never have been asked the question to begin with.

The Russia investigation rolls on with more evidence of questionable conduct on the part of Trump and his team.

Four social media stars have been fired from their television show after the revelation that Pamela Gellar is their mother.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.

The Russian government likely is quite pleased.

Despite what his own intelligence chiefs are saying, President Trump still does not believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

A Federal Judge In Kansas has blocked enforcement of a state law barring anyone who does business with the state from engaging in a boycott of Israel.

Donald Trump’s own lawyers are afraid he can’t help but lie to such an extent that he should not sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Yet another demand for a loyalty pledge from a law enforcement official by a President under investigation.

A Judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit against the President based on two provisions of the Constitution that had never been ruled on before.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand says Bill Clinton should have resigned over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Raising the question of just how stringently we should apply the standards of today to the events of the past.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

Another Alabama woman accuses Roy Moore of sexually assaulting him when she was a teenager.

In other news, this week we learned that AIM still exists.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke yesterday with Senate investigators, and his answers raise more questions than they answer.

Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.

Six months of revelations about ties to Russia is taking its toll on White House staffers.

Donald Trump’s Presidency is young, but he’s already on track to become the biggest liar ever to occupy the Oval Office.