paul manafort

• Opinion

Alternative Fact of the Week: Collusion allusions, illusions, delusions

Paul Manafort's lawyer misquotes a judge about collusion in a manner that sounds suspiciously like a certain someone who has the authority to give his client a pardon.

• Opinion

Goldberg: Audience has already made up its mind about 'Waiting for Mueller'

Waiting for Mr. Mueller to prove himself a savior may not pan out for the simpler reason that he can't find what doesn't exist. To say that Mr. Trump was morally capable of colluding with Russia is not the same thing as saying that he did.

• Opinion

Alternative Fact of the Week: Oh, THAT collusion

The "no collusion" mantra gets an entirely new spin from Rudy Giuliani who seems to think now that, yup, maybe there was some.

• Commentary

Zirpoli: Trump talks of swamp while reeking of corruption

Duncan Hunter of California and Chris Collins of New York were the first two congressmen to endorse candidate Donald Trump for president in 2016. They are the founding members of the “Trump Caucus” in Congress. So it makes sense that each of these two congressmen has been indicted recently.

• Opinion

Maybe you didn't notice amid all the Trump news, but the left is imploding

President Trump is all the media cares about, and the left is getting away with despicable behavior, John Kass writes.

• Opinion

Watching the Trump TV show: It's now King Lear tweeting his mounting madness and rage in real time

In TV terms, Trump went from J.R. Ewing to King Lear this week. What new fall series could network TV possibly deliver in coming weeks that could compete with nightly cable coverage of Trump Agonistes?

By David Zurawik

Aug 23, 2018

• Politics

Maryland lawmakers want Michael Cohen to testify before House oversight committee

Maryland members of a House oversight committee called on the panel’s Republican chairman Wednesday to summon President Donald J. Trump’s former personal lawyer to testify.

By Jeff Barker

Aug 22, 2018

• Opinion

Mueller's case against Manafort should be a slam dunk. So why is the jury still out?

The Manafort jury is now deliberating for a fourth day. A former federal prosecutor says that should be making Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III very nervous.

• Opinion

Reich: Trump sees foreign danger in the wrong places

Donald Trump cares more about unauthorized immigrants and Chinese imports than our democracy, says Robert Reich.

• Opinion

Bill Press: Flynn proves Russian investigation not going away

Robert Mueller isn't running out of gas in his investigation, says Bill Press; he's just getting into high gear.

• Opinion

John Kass: Putin's great American spy novel

If Robert Mueller is serious at all about Russian interference in Washington, he must Dems too, says John Kass.

• Maryland

Zirpoli: Russia-Trump connections becoming clearer

For some, taking a knee during the national anthem is un-American, but getting paid tens of millions of dollars to work with Russian agents against the foreign policy of the United States is “much ado about nothing.”

• Opinion

Horsey: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the right mouthpiece for a truth-twisting president

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a perfect spokesperson fora truth-twisting president, says David Horsey.

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: Indictments and ham sandwiches

Among the many problems with the Mueller investigation is that it has no legal, subject or monetary limits, says Cal Thomas.

• Opinion

Witcover: Trump's strategy no match to Mueller's

Robert Mueller's investigative process appears now to be closing in on the president, says Jules Witcover.

• Opinion

Even if Trump is right about collusion, Russia story is big (not fake) news

Let's give President Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt about the latest revelations from the Mueller investigation. What it's turned up about Russia is still a big deal.

• Baltimore City Paper

Stop fetishizing normalcy to condemn Trump

I went down to the White House to see Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner give his excuses surrounding the meeting that he, Trump's son, and Paul Manafort, among

• Opinion

Make Jared Kushner a little less busy

Kushner's defense of his Russian meeting doesn't pass muster.

• Opinion

Trump-Russia: Donald Jr. goes rogue

The Trump family can't seem to keep their stories about Russia straight.

• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy in Crisis: Move over Louise Mensch, Roger Stone has a Carter Page theory of his own

Carter Page, the seemingly hapless, dead-eyed and bald-headed former-Trump adviser who is at the white-hot center of the controversy surrounding Trump campaign

• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy In Crisis: Archaeological Notes on "Russia"

After the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Russian interference with the U.S. election, I had to renew my press credential

• Opinion

Horsey: Most Republicans are in denial about the Trump/Russia investigation

The more Republicans downplay contacts between Russians and Trump campaigners, the more it looks like a cover-up.

• Opinion

Alternative fact of the week

FBI Director Comey gets to shoot down a Trump alternative fact on live television

• Republican Party

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