Trump claims that the court filings against Cohen "clear" him. They do not. In response to the two court filings made by federal prosecutors against Michael Cohen on Friday, President Donald Trump took to the internet. And this time, unlike his early morning outburst in which the president seemed to be on the verge of panic, Trump confidently proclaimed that the new filings mean he is proven innocent and home free. Totally clears the President. Thank you! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018 Only one problem: he isn't. In fact, the filings allege Trump (referred to as "Individual-1")...

The 2018 election has become a tale of divided government: the House broke for Democrats, but the Senate held for Republicans — and what’s more, Republicans were even able to expand their majority in the Senate. The election has also become a tale of blue waves. But don’t those tales contradict one another? Not really. What the “split decision” narrative sometimes misses is just how well Democrats performed in the Senate despite having to defend more seats than Republicans1 — and in territory that was largely more favorable to the GOP. Much of this is overshadowed because Democrats did lose...

This Harvard law professor believes Trump can be indicted and should be. Laurence Tribe is a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School. He's argued cases before the Supreme Court 36 times,  and he's taught students who went on to become U.S. Senators, Supreme Court justices, and even a U.S. President. Among them, Barack Obama, John Roberts, Elena Kagan, and Ted Cruz. And he's become an outspoke critic of President Donald Trump. Tribe is going after the Justice Department's policy – which is not law and not in the Constitution – that bars prosecutors from moving to have a sitting U.S. President...

“You can’t steal the presidency and hold up the presidency as a shield against being held accountable for stealing the presidency,” Kirschner said. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said he got “patriotic goosebumps” watching disgraced national security adviser Michael Flynn’s demeanor change under harsh rebukes from Judge Emmet Sullivan. The former assistant U.S. Attorney told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” he believed special counsel Robert Mueller would “seriously consider” indicting President Donald Trump if evidence showed he broke the law with Flynn’s help to become president. “You can’t steal the presidency and hold up the presidency as a shield against being held...

The man who has long insisted he owns half of Facebook Inc. remains nothing if not resourceful. Until his arrest in August in Ecuador, Paul Ceglia was on the lam from law enforcement for more than three years. He was trying to avoid prosecution in New York on charges that he faked a contract with founder Mark Zuckerberg. He hid in “hippie communes” in Georgia and Missouri, put on an Amish disguise, bribed South American border cops and even set sail to Cuba—or tried to—with his wife, two sons and a Jack Russell terrier. Or so Ceglia says. He talked...

Trump won Iowa in 2016 because he vowed to bring manufacturing jobs back to the American heartland, but this man says he's failed them. Robert Morrison, a machinist who is about to lose his job at a Siemens factory in Burlington, Iowa, unloaded on President Donald Trump in a scalding op-ed in the Guardian on Friday. While noting that Trump won Iowa in 2016 because he vowed to bring manufacturing jobs back to the American heartland, Morrison says that he has so far completely failed to live up to his promises. “When our plant closes its doors on Friday, we will be saying...