Outside the Beltway

The crying Honduran girl who has become a symbol of a brutal policy actually is not one of its victims.

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

In the Trump Era, the White House Press Briefing is becoming shorter and less informative.

The numbers suggests that the administration isn’t too interested in talking.

Don’t look for a Trump agenda for the rest of the year. It doesn’t exist.

The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.

The White House isn’t apologizing for an aide who made a joke about John McCain’s most likely terminal illness. That shouldn’t be surprising.

With the start of her confirmation hearings just days away, Gina Haspel’s nomination to be C.I.A. Director is by no means secure.

Rudy Giuliani tried to clean up the mess he created for his client earlier this week. He failed miserably.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

Remember Donald Trump’s strange doctor? Well, things just got stranger;.

President Trump’s on-again, off-again visit to Great Britain appears to be on again.

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.

With the accusations mounting, the nomination of Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs is becoming more and more imperiled.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in the U.S. hoping to lobby President Trump to keep the United States in the nuclear deal with Iran. He’s got his work cut out for him.

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

President Trump undercut his own Ambassador to the United Nations today by blocking the imposition of new sanctions on Russia.

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.

President Trump is talking about pulling American troops out of Syria, but his own White House is contradicting him.

President Trump wants to send the military to the Mexican border. This is both unnecessary and a bad idea.

Robert Mueller is telling the President’s lawyers that Trump is a “subject” of his investigation, but not a “target,” that’s not as significant a distinction as it may seem to be.

After several days of speculation, it was confirmed that the leaders of North Korea and China had met in Beijing. This was meant as much for external consumption as it was the relationship between the two nations.

Fourteen months into his presidency, he has no idea how the federal budget works.

California has pushed back quickly against the Trump Administration’s decision to include a question regarding citizenship in the 2020 Census.

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.

This is no way to run a railroad.

A new report confirms that the White House has indeed required staffers to sign non-disclosure agreements that are clearly not enforceable.

President Trump continues to obsequiously praise Russian President Vladimir Putin

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.

H.R. McMaster appears to be on the way out as National Security Adviser. The important question is, who replaces him?

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

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

The former Trump campaign official made the most of his 15 minutes of fame.

Once again, the Administration is walking back the President’s statements on a controversial issue.

President Trump continues to deny the reality of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and he’s failing to act to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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.

Women voters are turning decidedly against Donald Trump, this could pose problems for Republican in 2018 and beyond.

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.

Congress seems likely to pass a budget deal today that will massively increase spending, putting to rest once and for all the rank hypocrisy of Republicans when it comes to claims that they are “fiscally conservative.”

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

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

Donald Trump spent much of the past year touting the rising stock market, now he’s getting a lesson in reality.

A train carrying Republican Congressmen and Senators, and their families, was involved in a crash in western Virginia.

Andrew McCabe has stepped down as the FBI’s number two after months of attacks from President Trump.

Getting to a DACA deal isn’t going to be easy.

It’s Day Two of the Federal Government shutdown and there are few signs of a quick resolution.

The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.

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