Outside the Beltway

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.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

After a year of controversy and investigation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicated on charges of fraud and bribery.

A Senate Impeachment trial in early January would have a serious impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the European Union provides yet more evidence to support impeachment of the President.

Republicans used to honor the men and women who serve our country. In the Trump Era, they attack them in defense of the President.

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

Giuliani confirms.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.

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.

Public resources do not belong to the president to use for private gain.

The fight over the President’s tax returns has reached the Supreme Court.

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.

One of Donald Trump”s closest associates has been convicted by a Federal jury.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt President Trump another setback in his effort to keep his financial records out of Congressional hands.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

Day two of Congressional impeachment hearings will be marked by the testimony of the former American Ambassador to Ukraine.

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

Nine months after what seemed like the end of his political career, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has mounted a comeback,

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

After just two months, Mark Sanford is dropping his challenge to the incumbent President.

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

Get the popcorn and your favorite beverage ready.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular suffered a big loss in the Kentucky Governor’s race.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a loss in his effort to prevent prosecutors in New York from getting copies of his tax returns.

Revisiting a recent post.

And now we have evidence of a clear effort at a coverup by high-level White House employees. The question would be, what did the President know and when did he know it?

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

The proof of a quid pro quo is coming from inside the President’s own Administration.

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

The President is committing enough high crimes and misdemeanors without us manufacturing them.

The next steps in the impeachment process are relatively easy to predict.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

Greg Mankiw, an economist who served as a top adviser to Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, is officially no longer a Republican

Facing a cash crunch, Kamala Harris is shedding campaign staff and cutting spending. This seldom ends well.

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

John Kelly, President Trump’s former Chief of Staff, is speaking out nearly a year after leaving office

A current defense of Trump raises an ancient political question.

They know how Congress works, but are banking on the fact that many Americans don’t.

A Federal District Court Judge gave the House of Representatives, and the nation, a big win yesterday.

George Washington invented the concept and was quite clear that it did not apply to impeachment proceedings.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.