The indictment of Chris Collins, the Republican congressman from upstate New York, on insider trading charges is an unmitigated disaster for him, even though some prognosticators say he could win reelection anyway.
Okay, I get it.
Their cases could not be more different.
After years of deflection and foot-dragging, the major tech companies are finally having to take steps toward policing their own content.
As his former campaign chairman stands trial in the Robert Mueller investigation, President Trump went off yesterday, distancing himself from Paul Manafort and calling for the entire probe to be shut down.
President Trump makes so much news that I could write a half-dozen columns today just on his latest comments and tweets—any one of which would lead the news in ordinary times.
It was somewhat encouraging to learn that President Trump was willing to invite the publisher of what he constantly attacks as the "failing" New York Times to talk through their differences.
One of the things that drives people crazy about Washington is all the pointless theater.
Lordy, there are tapes—along with a whole new wave of media questions about Donald Trump, his veracity, the break with his former lawyer, and his current lawyer saying "the president is not an idiot.
I think we can all agree that for a congresswoman to refer to a 28-year-old candidate as "this girl" is rather belittling.
A hollowed-out White House exists in the summer of 2018, with Trump unconstrained by banished or neutered advisers. But the level of disdain toward the media is much the same.
"Sean, we're getting killed in the media."
The media seem determined not to give the president a do-over.
As the searing criticism of President Trump grows even hotter, the latest leaks suggest that an old and damaging pattern is repeating itself.
President Trump gave his detractors plenty of ammunition while standing beside Vladimir Putin.
Stormy Daniels has been arrested, but I digress.
As Americans were just waking up for breakfast, they discovered that President Trump was ruining breakfast for NATO leaders.
Most conservatives are genuinely pleased with President Trump's Supreme Court choice, but there's a lack of excitement in some quarters.
In the end, President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court was the man the media declared the front-runner from the beginning—before the handicapping spun out of control.
It's quite obvious that Michael Cohen was sending a sharp message when he sat down with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
The conservative commentators who absolutely despise President Trump are in a box.
The Supreme speculation is under way, and the media powers that be are focusing on a woman who they are already casting as controversial.
The Democratic Party is suddenly lurching left in ways that may be self-destructive.
The media immediately went to Defcon 1 within moments of Anthony Kennedy’s retirement.
I have reason to suspect that the press isn't exactly thrilled over the Supreme Court upholding President Trump’s travel ban.
The indictment of a Senate intelligence committee official in a leak investigation might have been a blip — except that the Justice Department seized the phone and email records of his former girlfriend.
We are being buried under a tsunami of toxicity.
Peter Fonda was sounding absolutely unhinged.
It was probably inevitable that the media would eventually make the family separation furor about Ivanka Trump.
In the blink of an eye, the uproar over immigration has become a major midterm election issue.
A Republican president has a problem when he's lost the New York Post.
The media are going cult-crazy.
President Trump may have declared yesterday that there is "no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea," but that remains to be seen.
On this, perhaps, we can all agree: It is better that President Trump is talking to Kim Jong Un than exchanging threats over nuclear war.
One of my "Media Buzz" guests said the other day that the press blows past the complexities of covering President Trump's economic battle with American allies by focusing on "personality-based" coverage.
The bleak presidential portrait painted by the media keeps getting darker: Donald Trump is spinning out of control, calling the Mueller probe unconstitutional, claiming he can pardon himself, embracing a lawyer who says he could shoot Jim Comey and not be indicted.
After a disastrous interview in which he looked clueless about sexual misconduct, Bill Clinton got a do-over.
President Trump just called an audible.
There was a media eruption over Rudy Giuliani and his latest round of television appearances, turning on his answers to hypothetical questions, which are always dangerous.
The president is mounting so many Twitter attacks against the press that it’s a bit hard to keep up.
I think we can all agree it wasn’t the Ambien, that Roseanne Barr has a long history of spewing conspiracy theories and ugly attacks.
With 15 tweets in the last five days on what he’s calling the “Rigged Russia Witch Hunt,” President Trump is not just playing defense but keeping the investigation in the forefront of the news cycle.
When it comes to his sudden misfire against the media, Elon Musk is losing some of his rocket fuel.
President Trump's announcement that he would sit down with Kim Jong Un came as a global shock.
No wonder Paul Ryan decided to bail.
A year and a half after the election, Hillary Clinton still finds herself a political piñata.
So just to bring you up to date: --The FBI used an informant to spy on Trump campaign aides who had contacts with Russia.
The New York Times has run a rather stunning correction, only a year and a half after the fact.
Here we go again, back to the infamous Trump Tower meeting with the Russians in the summer of 2016.
Kellyanne Conway says some people in and around the White House "are using the media to shiv each other"—and that she expects some folks to be fired.
Corey Lewandowski, who helped Donald Trump win the Republican nomination, is getting back in the campaign game.
Hell hath officially frozen over.
It's mildly amusing to watch cable pundits say that Michael Avenatti hijacked the prime-time coverage on Tuesday night from what was unquestionably a story of global importance, President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
In the hyperpartisan media climate surrounding President Trump, I've detected a rare spot of agreement.
Gina Haspel doesn't want to be "the next Ronny Jackson."
Rudy Giuliani just changed the playing field on the investigations of Donald Trump–but perhaps not in the way he intended.
There are growing whispers that if John Kelly is eased out or bails out as White House chief of staff, the job could go to Corey Lewandowski.
The White House has been rocked by many self-destructive leaks—any "idiot" can see that—but the spilling of the Robert Mueller questions is in a whole different category.
It was just like the old days, when Donald Trump would call into "Fox & Friends" and say whatever was on his mind.
Donald Trump, as candidate and as president, has been a brawler, calling critics idiots, morons, psychos, SOBs and, in the case of the media, scum.
Ronny Jackson may have declared Donald Trump to be in fantastic health, but his own nomination is seriously ailing.
On paper, there is simply no question: Mike Pompeo is qualified to be secretary of State.
President Trump just came out and said it.
It's understandable, perhaps, that much of the press is playing the latest back-and-forth on Russian sanctions as a personal slap at Nikki Haley.
I've been watching hours and hours of nonstop coverage about Sean Hannity.
James Comey, whose public persona is based on the image of an upright G-man, has tarnished his own halo.
James Comey's book tour hasn't even started and it's already becoming ground zero in the political and media war over President Trump.
Paul Ryan is one of those rare politicians who really does want to spend more time with his family.
The dramatic FBI raid on Michael Cohen's office and hotel room was a grandstanding move, no question about it.
A number of President Trump’s top appointees have been battling allegations of misconduct, from petty to profound, creating a growing distraction for his administration.
President Trump has been making some dramatic moves lately, leaving his out-of-the-loop aides scrambling to either catch up or change his mind.
Donald Trump isn't the first president to take on a business or industry he doesn't like.
The president is once again on a tear against the press.
President Trump declared in an Easter tweet that "DACA is dead."
This is how the firing of the VA secretary could have been framed: David Shulkin had gotten himself in a heap of trouble.
You might think a 93-year-old guy who hasn't been heard from in years wouldn't have the firepower to influence the gun control debate.
On Monday, the president accused of coddling Vladimir Putin expelled 60 Russian diplomats, the largest number in American history, and that includes the Cold War.
Stormy Daniels' lawyer succeeded in hyping his client's "60 Minutes" appearance into the must-watch TV episode of the season—the show’s biggest ratings in a decade.
Ross Douthat, the consistently provocative New York Times columnist, had a personal reason for being put off by Donald Trump's prowess at dominating television.
Ross Douthat, the consistently provocative New York Times columnist, had a personal reason for being put off by Donald Trump's prowess at dominating television.
Even as Robert Mueller has put forth no evidence tying Donald Trump to Russian collusion, are the media, not so subtly, pushing the idea of impeachment?
The firing of Andrew McCabe has opened the floodgates, both for President Trump and his media and political critics.
It’s one of the most honest headlines I’ve seen in quite awhile: “In Trumpworld, nobody knows anything.”
The Democrats are gearing up for the midterms, emboldened by the apparent razor-thin win by Conor Lamb in a Pittsburgh-area district that Donald Trump carried by 20 points.
On the last day of November, the New York Times ran a story headlined "White House Plans Tillerson Ouster From State Dept., to Be Replaced by Pompeo.
The Pennsylvania crowd loved it when President Trump took a whack at Chuck Todd.
Let’s start with the premise that the Stormy Daniels saga hasn’t gotten much traction because most Americans don’t care about it.
The mainstream media are heartsick over the departure of Gary Cohn.
President Trump, whose frenetic style of governing has become perhaps his defining media image, could be facing a turning point in the coming weeks.
There was no good time for Hope Hicks to leave.
If the president of the United States wants his attorney general to investigate how the Obama administration handled a surveillance warrant involving a former campaign aide, he should ask him.
Just as we’re having an intense conversation about mass shootings and gun control, the media are fixating on some remarks by President Trump that do nothing to advance the debate.
I am not in favor of censorship.
The centerpiece of a New Yorker story on Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, is scribbled notes kept by the former Playboy playmate.
Donald Trump could be the president who pushes Congress to do something about gun control, even if those steps are modest.
The world may little note nor long remember whether Donald Trump shows up at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
President Trump's use of Twitter as a sledgehammer delights his base and drives his detractors crazy, especially in the press.
Will the changing political climate sideline Bill Clinton?
What began as a political debacle at the White House is turning into a serious conversation about domestic abuse.
The press has turned on John Kelly with a vengeance.