Outside the Beltway

President Trump is claiming that he didn’t fire former F.B.I. Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, even though he admitted the exact opposite just weeks after it happened.

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.

The Mueller investigation turns one year old today and, despite the arguments of Trump and his supporters, there’s no sign that it will be coming to an end in the near future.

President Trump’s latest financial disclosure finally acknowledges that he reimbursed Michael Cohen for the payoff to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels.

Robert Mueller has reportedly concluded that he cannot indict a sitting President. This is not a vindication of Trump, and merely upholds a conclusion that the Justice Department reached four decades ago.

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.

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

To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. 

Rudy Giuliani tried to clean up the mess he created for his client earlier this week. He failed miserably.

In addition to his admissions about the Stormy Daniels matter, Rudy Giuliani also confirmed what we’ve known for awhile, that James Comey was fired because of the Russia investigation.

Rudy Giuliani threw a live grenade into the middle of the Stormy Daniels affair last night, and he’s made things much, much worse for his client.

Another one of Trump’s lawyers bites the dust, and hired someone with some very specific experience.

Robert Mueller has some questions for the President, and the wide range of topic areas should worry President Trump significantly.

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

President Trump’s weeklong effort to undermine his own Attorney General continues.

Reports are indicating that Donald Trump may be looking to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

Another day in Court for President Trump’s Muslim ban.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

Donald Trump isn’t going to change, and that’s bad news for all of us.

Two more losses for the Trump Administration.

An unusual, if not unexpected, mass firing at the Justice Department on Friday afternoon.

Hawaii is the first state to challenge the Trump Administration’s revised Muslim travel ban.