Outside the Beltway

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

A proposal that has no chance of passing may harm the movement he’s seeking to help.

Supporters of Roy Moore tried to bribe the attorney for a woman accusing the former Senate candidate of sexual assault when she was just fourteen years old into repudiating his client.

There are no magic foods. Cleanses are unnecessary and probably unhealthy. But we’re still eating a diet high in crap we know we shouldn’t eat.

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

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

President Trump continues to deny the reality of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and he’s failing to act to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

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.

Even with yesterday’s indictments, President Trump still won’t acknowledge reality even though it’s staring him in the face.

Intelligence officials are warning that the Russians are set to seek to influence the 2018 elections just as they did in 2016. Despite this, the Trump Administration refuses to acknowledge this publicly while the President seeks to undermine the investigation into past Russian interference.

Contrary to the claims that were made by conservatives and Trump supporters before its release, the memo prepared by Congressman Devin Nunes has done nothing to undermine the Russia investigation.

Administration officials are admitting that it’s likely that Russia will try to interfere in the midterm elections just as it did in 2016, but they don’t seem inclined to do anything about it.

Once again, President Trump is going soft on Russia. Why? I’ll leave that up to the reader to decide.

The recent cooling of relations between North and South Korea has led to some talk of eventual reunification, but for many South Koreans that idea is a non-starter.

President Trump is apparently pressuring the President of South Korea to give him the credit for talks between North and South Korea that the United States isn’t involved in at all.

Some progress on easing tensions between North and South Korea.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is floating the idea that the U.S. might not take part in the Olympics due to safety concerns. This would be a foolish decision.

It appears Russia attempted to influence last year’s Brexit vote in the same manner it did the 2016 election in the United States.

The capital of the purported caliphate declared by ISIS has apparently fallen, but that doesn’t mean the end of ISIS. In fact, it may make the group more dangerous.

Catalonia voted overwhelmingly for independence from Spain, but it’s not at all clear that the vote will amount to anything.

Absent significant changes, expecting normal diplomatic relationships with the DPRK is a pipe dream.

More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.

A big change appears to have taken place in American cable news viewing habits.

At least thirteen dead in an apparent terrorist attack in Spain.

Things are getting far more complicated on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy isn’t working, and a military option would most likely lead to disaster.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.

Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone she can for her loss, except the most obvious suspects.

In Fox News Channel’s America, Donald Trump can do no wrong and Hillary Clinton is still a threat.

Thanks to anti-vaccination activists spreading false propaganda, measles cases are hitting record highs among the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota.

More trouble for Lt. General Michael Flynn.

An apparent terror attack outside Parliament in London.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

South Korea removes a corrupt leader by peaceful means.

Another day, another round of reports about contacts with Russian officials and people close to President Trump.

The answer is pretty straight-forward.

New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.

Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler. But that’s not the standard.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.