Outside the Beltway

The President tried bringing something akin to a traditional policy process to the White House. Now he’s rebelling against it.

The Russia investigation rolls on with more evidence of questionable conduct on the part of Trump and his team.

The circumstantial case for corruption by Kushner is growing.

After skipping such events in his first thirteen months in office, the President tried his hand at stand-up last night to mixed reviews.

Staffers are fleeing the administration like rats from a sinking ship.

You’d think after 13 months in the White House they’d start understanding that there are rules.

This is very much why the security clearance process requires so much financial disclosure.

The White House chief of staff has downgraded the President’s son-in-law’s access to classified information. We’ll see how long that lasts.

Jonathan Bernstein thinks so and Chuck Todd and company outline a pretty strong case.

The President’s fecklessness here is incredible. Either take these people out of sensitive posts or take the responsibility for granting them waivers. 

Mexico’s President canceled a visit to the United States for the second time since Donald Trump became President due to a continued disagreement over who will pay for Trump’s border wall.

The Mueller investigation moves forward.

More security clearance problems for the White House.

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.

More than a year into the Trump Presidency, dozens of White House personnel lack proper security clearances.

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.

Mostly it just tells us that Nunes and his allies are hacks.

National Review legal analyst David French argues that the Nunes memo actually undermines the central claim its proponents were seeking to bolster.

Robert Mueller’s investigators are looking at the President’s role in drafting a false statement regarding the June 2016 meeting between his son and a lawyer linked to the Russian government.

And the evidence for obstruction of justice continues to mount.

Former White House and Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon has been subpoenaed in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

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

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

Donald Trump Jr. is claiming that some conversations between him and his father are covered by the attorney-client privilege. Based on what we know about those conversations, there’s a good possibility that he’s right.

Ominous news for the Trump Administration today out of Federal Court in Washington, D.C.

It appears that Rex Tillerson’s days at the State Department may be numbered, but his proposed replacement leaves a lot to be desired.

Potentially bad news for President Trump in connection with the Russia investigation.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.

More indications that Donald Trump Jr. was heavily involved in Trump campaign efforts to coordinate with foreign contacts regarding damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Even during an overseas trip, President Trump continues to try to undermine the Russia investigation.

Yet more evidence of potential collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russians.

A Trump Campaign official has been charged with and pled guilty to charges of lying to the F.B.I. regarding contacts with Russian officials.

The first shoes drop in the Mueller investigation.

Tensions continue to rise between the White House and Foggy Bottom.

While there are real differences between what’s being reported about White House officials such as Jared Kushner and what Hillary Clinton did, the charge of hypocrisy is well-founded.

Special counsel Robert Mueller could be looking to “flip” Paul Manafort, giving President Trump and those close to him something new to worry about.

President Trump reportedly openly humiliated his own Attorney General after learning of Bob Mueller’s appointment.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke yesterday with Senate investigators, and his answers raise more questions than they answer.

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

Another one bites the dust.

A new report indicates that Trump campaign officials were seeking contact with Russian officials earlier than we thought.

White House insiders have renewed efforts to oust Presidential adviser Steve Bannon. Can they succeed?

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

The Mueller investigation continues.

Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.

President Trump was apparently directly involved in drafting a false statement regarding his son’s meeting with a lawyer tied to the Russian government.

In another major change announced via Twitter, late yesterday President Trump announced he’d hired a new Chief of Staff, but changes at the staff level aren’t going to fix what’s really wrong with the Trump Administration.

The pardon issue could be a serious inflection point.

Robert Mueller seems to be getting closer to the President, and the Administration is responding by seeking to undermine his investigation.