Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
FBI anti-Trump efforts revealed as William Barnett talks to John Durham
The FBI's most infamous epoch is coming into scandalous light in a steady flow of self-incriminating documents meant to stay secret. Published September 27, 2020
How the left’s vast anti-Trump conspiracies turned to dust
President Trump has been confronted with a series of false and unfounded conspiracy stories from the same liberal establishment that condemns the QAnon phenomenon, according to an analysis of the president's nearly four years in office. Published September 27, 2020
Hunter Biden’s network of wealthy, corrupt foreigners stretched from Moscow to Beijing
The Senate Republican report this week on Hunter Biden shows he amassed a network of shady foreign clients who pumped millions of dollars into his bank accounts -- all while his dad, Joseph R. Biden, served as vice president. Published September 24, 2020
H.R. McMaster book ‘Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World’ upends anti-Trump narrative
Anti-Trump forces expecting another insider's tale on how awful the president is will be disappointed by retired Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Published September 23, 2020
The debunking of the left’s hit list of anti-Trump conspiracy theories
President Trump has been confronted with a series of false and unfounded conspiracy stories from the same liberal establishment that condemns the wild QAnon phenomenon, according to an analysis of the president's nearly four years in office. Published September 21, 2020
How Trump outplayed Team Obama on Israeli-Arab peace push
Dire predictions by Obama administration alumni that moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, Israel's capital, would ignite widespread violence have not panned out. Published September 20, 2020
Obama alumni all wrong on Trump peace push
Dire predictions from Barack Obama alumni that moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Israel's capital, would ignite widespread violence have not panned out. Published September 16, 2020
Postal Service urges voters to prepare for mail-in balloting
The under-the-gun U.S. Postal Service is telling Americans they have a shared responsibility to make sure mailed ballots reach official vote counters in time. Published September 13, 2020
Robert Mueller probe: Phones of staffers wiped clean before returned to DOJ
The staff of special counsel Robert Mueller turned in 27 government smartphones that had been "wiped" of all data, including the iPhone of Andrew Weissmann, according to new Justice Department numbers. Published September 11, 2020
John Dowd thanks Bob Woodward for Trump campaign boost
President Trump's former criminal defense attorney is thanking Bob Woodward for highlighting the fact the president wanted the nation to stay calm as the coronavirus took hold in early 2020. Published September 10, 2020
Peter Strzok downplays dossier his Trump probe relied on
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who headed the probe into President Trump and his campaign, is now distancing himself from the infamous dossier on which his team greatly relied. Published September 7, 2020
Public Interest Legal Foundation finds thousands of double voters
A legal foundation has filed two court briefs that assert that double voting by the thousands happened in 2016-2018 in Georgia and North Carolina, as the nation prepares for its first large-scale, mail-in balloting to elect a president. Published September 6, 2020
USPS fires back: Local election boards stuck in outdated, confusing mail-in voting
The U.S. Postal Service, under Democratic fire on its readiness for mail-in voting, says there are big problems on the other end, too. Published September 2, 2020
Christopher Steele libel trial ends in London
For aficionados of the 2016 Trump-Russia dossier, its creator's defamation trial in London was full of twists and turns, though the plot is relatively simple: Published September 1, 2020
Donald Trump as Russian spy found nowhere in numerous investigations
Assertions by top Obama administration officials that President Trump is a Moscow intelligence asset have not been supported by a string of government investigations begun in July 2016, an analysis shows. Published August 30, 2020
Tempers flare inside team Trump as loyalists miffed over addition of controversial outsider
A foreign policy expert who played a role in trying to change the Ukraine plank in the Republican Party's platform four years ago and later criticized President Trump has nonetheless won a plum White House appointment. Published August 30, 2020
John McCain associate planned leaks to Post’s Ignatius
The associate of John McCain who spread anti-Trump dossier claims around Washington post-election planned to leak a story to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about Paul Manafort, according to court testimony. Published August 28, 2020
Christopher Steele says FBI didn’t pay for his dossier work
Dossier creator Christopher Steele testified at a defamation trial in London that the FBI stiffed him out of payments he was due for travel in his anti-Trump investigation. Published August 27, 2020
Stefan Halper served as father-confessor/spy: Carter Page book
Stefan Halper took on the character of a sympathizing old friend when he met with Carter Page in 2016-17. The FBI confidential source was trying to see if the former Trump volunteer would incriminate himself in Russia collusion. Published August 25, 2020
White House stiffs campaign loyalists; appoints player in Ukraine platform debacle
A foreign policy expert who played a role in trying to change the Ukraine plank in the Republican Party's platform four years ago and later criticized President Trump has nonetheless won a plum White House appointment. Published August 25, 2020
