Outside the Beltway

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

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

Mike Pence’s obsequiousness to his master knows no limits.

New documents reveal that the Limited Liability Company that paid off Stormy Daniels also received payments from a company linked to a Russian oligarch.

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.

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.

Stormy Daniels is suing the President for defamation after he accused her of lying about a threat made to her seven years ago.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

As has often been the case, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is arousing some degree of controversy, mostly because of the comedy or lack thereof.

A Federal Judge in California has placed the Stormy Daniels civil lawsuit against Donald Trump and Michael Cohen on hold due largely to the ongoing criminal investigation pending against Cohen.

Michael Cohen will invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment in response to any questions asked in discovery in the civil suit filed against him by Stormy Daniels. That’s really the only option he has.

It’s a valid question, but one should also be careful about drawing conclusions based on how a person in Trump’s position acts.

Hoping that Donald Trump might not run for reelection? Don’t get your hopes up.

Based on his recent behavior, it’s clear that the President is worried about how loyal Michael Cohen might actually turn out to be.

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal will be free to speak about her relationship with the President.

Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

Donald Trump could have more to worry about regarding the investigation of Michael Cohen than he does regarding the Mueller investigation.

Hang on, the ride on the Trump Train is about to get a lot bumpier.

Stormy Daniels is talking to the Feds

President Trump isn’t reacting well to the raid on his attorney’s office.

In a move apparently connected to the Stormy Daniels affair, Federal authorities have raided the office of longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

Donald Trump broke his silence on Stormy Daniels. That was a bad idea.

Stormy Daniels spoke to 60 Minutes last night about her relationship with Donald Trump and the agreement that was made on the eve of the 2016 election to keep her quiet.

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal is suing the publisher of the National Enquirer for the right to tell her story of an alleged affair with President Trump in 2006.

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.

Attorneys for the Defendants in the lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels, including the President, have removed the case to Federal Court and are claiming that Daniels owes $20 million for her alleged breaches of a settlement agreement.

A new bombshell allegation in the Stormy Daniels affair.

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

Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to enter a new phase, with a focus on the President’s business dealings with Russia.

Anderson Cooper has interviewed adult film star Stormy Daniels for 60 Minutes, but lawyers for President Trump are apparently considering legal action to stop the report from airing.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a lawsuit against the President, handing the already beleaguered White House yet another headache.

Donald Trump’s lawyer admits to making a six-figure payment on the eve of the 2016 election to a porn star that Trump was alleged to have had an affair with. That just raises a host of other questions.

New reports of Trump’s business ties to Russia are raising eyebrows.

This is not a serious Presidential campaign, it is a bloviating sideshow.

We’re down to debating whether bigots should have to sell cakes to gay people.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

An American city was essentially shut down today. Was that the right thing to do?

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

Herman Cain is leading Mitt Romney in two respected polls.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Michael Cohen argues that our system is broken because Republicans will no longer compromise.