Outside the Beltway

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

Donald Trump proves once again that there are no boundaries he won’t cross.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

After arguing for a month about an “unfair” impeachment process, the WHite House is saying ‘no thanks’ to an invitation to participate in the next round of impeachment hearings.

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

The Republican Party is a cult with Donald Trump at the center and his ardent supporters are brainwashed cult members.

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

A new article puts Joe Biden’s gaffes and malapropisms in a new light.

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.

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

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.

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.

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

We won’t have Sean Spicer to ikick around anymore.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

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

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

Two weeks after the most recent debate, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are pulling ahead in the polls.

Elizabeth Warren’s fellow Democrats aren’t so thrilled with her ‘Medidare For All’ plan.

Defying the Commander-in-Chief’s order will almost certainly ruin a good man’s career.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

The GOP’s efforts to defend the President are becoming more desperate and pathetic by the day.

With twelve Democrats set to clash tonight in Ohio, it’s time to take a look at the state of the race.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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

The longtime anchor is leaving the network, ostensibly at his request.

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.

Expanding on yesterday afternoon’s post.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

It’s not just Ukraine.

The President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is among the first to be served with a subpoena in connection with the newly-launched impeachment inquiry.

Trump threatens civil war if he’s removed from office.

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

Fox News Channel in general, and Fox And Friends in particular, have become nothing but a propaganda network for the White House and the President.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

Greg Sargent usefully lays out the basics.

Donald Trump is suing the District Attorney in Manhattan to stop him from getting copies of Trump’s tax returns.

Obvious advice is obvious.

What we know for sure.

For the most part, the third debate appears to have had little immediate impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.