Rowan Scarborough

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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USPS fires back: Local election boards stuck in outdated, confusing mail-in voting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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

August 25, 2020

Two secret documents disprove claims about Paul Manafort, his attorney says

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's final report on Russian election interference contains a fundamentally inaccurate claim about Paul Manafort, his attorney says, and he claims that two secret documents can prove it.

August 23, 2020

Govt. documents show six examples of Obama administration spying on Trump camp

President Trump responded to former President Barack Obama's attacks against him Wednesday night during the Democratic National Convention with the Twitter counter-charge that "he spied on my campaign."

August 20, 2020

FBI declassified documents in Trump-Russia probe reveal pattern of duplicity

The FBI has rung up a striking record of falsehoods and misleading testimony during the bureau's Russia investigation of Donald Trump, according to a public records examination.

August 16, 2020

Stefan Halper, FBI spy, foretold Michael Flynn’s fall, ex-student says

A onetime associate of FBI spy Stefan Halper says the University of Cambridge professor told him that retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was "unsuitable" for the post of President Trump's national security adviser and added, "I don't think Flynn's going to be around long."

August 10, 2020