Outside the Beltway

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

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.

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.

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.

Not unexpectedly, Ronny Jackson has withdrawn his nomination to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Membership has its privileges.

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

President Trump’s job approval numbers remain historically low.

In the wake of the latest attack on Syria, some of the President’s strongest supporters seem shocked to discover that the unprincipled egomaniac they supported is, in fact, an unprincipled egomaniac.

For every Trump tweet, there is literally something that says exactly the opposite.

After eight months in office, the pressures on Chief of Staff John Kelly continue to mount under a President who cannot be controlled and whose behavior will not change.

The Trump Administration says David Shulkin resigned as Veterans Affairs Secretary. Shulkin says he was fired. Which one of them is right could be legally significant, but probably won’t ever be heard in Court.

So, not conspiracy theory lawyer after all.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

New reports indicate that Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has been involved in efforts to keep Stormy Daniels from telling her story for at least the past seven years.

The Stormy Daniels/Donald Trump story will break open wide on 60 Minutes next weekend.

Ben Carson has expensive taste in office furniture.

Whether it’s the abuse angle or the more serious issue of security clearances, the White House still can’t get the story straight on the Rob Porter case.

The Trump Administration is seeking to overhaul the food stamps program.

President Trump spoke up about the spousal abuse charges against his former Staff Secretary Rob Porter. His response was entirely predictable.

The Rob Porter story, which is quickly becoming the Rob Porter scandal, tells us a lot about the Trump White House, and none of it is good.

Today in an increasingly liberal, educated, globalized, and democratic world, we have more reason than ever to listen to the opinion of our peers and, where appropriate, to be open to their counsel.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

President Trump is claiming that the Nunes memo vindicates him. He’s wrong.

Donald Trump lies about even the most trivial matters, How are we supposed to believe anything else he says?

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.