Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
Capitol conspiracy: Feds take aim at Oath Keepers in Jan. 6 riot
The U.S. government contends that it has uncovered the closest thing to a large conspiracy to riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, issuing an updated, expanded indictment that names 16 members of the Oath Keepers militia in the suspected plot. Published June 7, 2021
Donald Trump Jr. unleashes on New York prosecutors for ‘political persecution’
Donald Trump Jr. is accusing New York Democrats of "political persecution" in their drive to nail his father, former President Trump, the Trump family and the Trump Organization on criminal charges. Published June 2, 2021
Kash Patel, Nunes aide and dossier-debunker, targeted by impostor account on Twitter
Someone is impersonating Trump dossier-buster Kash Patel on Twitter, whose gatekeepers are rejecting the real Mr. Patel's repeated pleas to cancel @KASHPatel_ and its unflattering tweets. Published June 1, 2021
Stacey Abrams escalates fight against GOP Georgia election changes
Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams is targeting safeguards in the state's new election integrity law that restrict photographing a voter's ballot touch screen and limit the ability to relay ongoing vote tallies. Published May 28, 2021
Letitia James, New York AG, taints case with well-documented anti-Trump bias
New York Attorney General Letitia James ran for office in 2018 on a campaign promise to charge then-President Trump with crimes. Published May 26, 2021
Biden team reverses support of Abraham Accords
The White House is now dismissing President Trump's Abraham Accords between Arab states and Israel -- after candidate Joseph R. Biden in 2020 effusively praised the deals and took credit for laying the diplomatic groundwork. Published May 24, 2021
Georgia Investigators probing voter fraud claims find nothing to alter results
Georgia state investigators have long been working, under the radar, at going through scores of voter fraud claims from the Nov. 3 election, and to date have found nothing to change the state's final 11,779-vote victory by President Biden, officials tell The Washington Times. Published May 23, 2021
U.S. seizes funds of John Earle Sullivan, Capitol riot suspect who sold Jan. 6 footage to media
The U.S. has seized thousands of dollars in media proceeds from accused rioter John Earle Sullivan, who sold the rights to his Jan. 6 narrated video inside the Capitol to NBC News, CNN and four other outlets. Published May 22, 2021
Affidavit contradicts FBI claims Jan. 6 rioters did not have guns
FBI Senate testimony that no Jan. 6 rioter carried a firearm inside U.S. Capitol restricted area is belied by a May 14 indictment accusing a Maryland man of "unlawful possession of a firearm on Capitol grounds." Published May 20, 2021
FBI reclassifies 2017 shooting of GOP lawmakers as domestic terrorism
The FBI, under Republican pressure, has reclassified the 2017 near massacre of more than a dozen Republican lawmakers at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, from "suicide by cop" to an act of domestic terrorism. Published May 16, 2021
Palestinian terrorists say their rockets come from Iran
The terrorist group Palestine Islamic Jihad says that Iran provided the rockets that have been striking civilian targets by the scores in Israel, including schools, homes and vehicles. Published May 13, 2021
FBI uses Google’s technology to identify Capitol rioter
The FBI knows that Jacob Travis Clark of Colorado was inside the prohibited environs of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 exactly from 2:15 p.m., the riot's approximate start time, to 3:25 p.m. Published May 12, 2021
House GOP hits FBI’s ‘suicide by cop’ ruling in 2017 attack on congressmen
More than a dozen House Republicans signed a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray demanding he investigate how the bureau came to classify a near-massacre of GOP members by a crazed gunman as merely "suicide by cop." Published May 11, 2021
Devin Nunes hosts Freedom Festival to promote conservatism in California
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes on Saturday hosted his inaugural "Freedom Festival," where conservative stars denounced the liberal media and tech billionaire censors while talking up ways to reach California's middle 40% of voters. Published May 9, 2021
Steve Scalise shooting damages Republicans trust in FBI
President Biden is making exposing domestic extremism a top priority -- the Pentagon has launched a program to find such people in the military ranks amd the Director of National Intelligence issued a report that Republicans say emphasized extremism on the right, but not the left. Published May 9, 2021
New Iranian propaganda music video shows missile hit on U.S. Capitol
Iran's propaganda machine has produced a new bellicose song to serve as background music for video scenes of a missile destroying the U.S. Capitol. Published May 5, 2021
John Earle Sullivan, leftist activist JaydenX, video proves critical to Capitol riot probe
The sole left-wing activist arrested to date in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots is the same man who created an on-scene video that has helped the FBI identify and arrest Trump-aligned participants. Published May 3, 2021
FBI spied on Giuliani, Trump iCloud chats during impeachment hearings, says lawyer
Rudolph W. Giuliani says that the FBI secretly spied on his Apple iCloud account beginning in late 2019 when he was having regular messaging conversations with his client, President Trump, during House impeachment proceedings. Published May 1, 2021
Foreign Agents Registration Act, law used against Trump allies, now at center of Giuliani probe
The FBI and federal prosecutors have wielded the Foreign Agents Registration Act as a prime weapon against Donald Trump allies, unleashing it again Wednesday to justify raiding the apartment and law office of his one-time lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani. Published April 29, 2021
Georgia officials dismiss group’s analysis of presidential votes
A group of former Trump campaign staffers has not given up trying to show that their candidate won Georgia in the 2020 presidential election, though their new report is being dismissed by a state elections official as "innuendo and speculation." Published April 27, 2021
