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Rowan Scarborough spent over 30 years at The Washington Times covering national security, including the Democrats' "Russia Hoax." He wrote two books, "Rumsfeld's War" and "Sabotage." A Navy veteran, Mr. Scarborough graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He reported for The Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times, Wilmington (Del.) News Journal and Defense Week.

Articles by Rowan Scarborough

In this Jan. 30, 2010, photo, Vice President Joe Biden, left, with his son Hunter, right, at the Duke Georgetown NCAA college basketball game in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) ** FILE **

Hunter Biden Burisma payments detailed in Treasury Department reports

Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden flatly denied at Tuesday night's debate that his lawyer son took huge sums of money from corrupt oligarchs and Chinese communists during his vice presidency, but Treasury Department reports show that Hunter Biden did receive the money.

September 30, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Wildwoods Convention Center Oceanfront, Tin Wildwood, N.J. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Andrew Weissmann pushed Trump-Yacht theory inside special counsel’s office

A senior Robert Mueller prosecutor tried to keep the Russia collusion probe going by promoting a tip that there was a Trump-related "meeting on a yacht near Greece," according to FBI agent William J. Barnett.

September 28, 2020

In this July 12, 2018, file photo, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok is seated to testify before the House Committees on the Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform during a hearing on "Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election," on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

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.

September 27, 2020

President Donald Trump smiles after a Latinos for Trump event at Trump National Doral Miami resort, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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.

September 27, 2020

In this Jan. 30, 2010, photo, Vice President Joe Biden, left, with his son Hunter, right, at the Duke Georgetown NCAA college basketball game in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) ** FILE **

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.

September 24, 2020

White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster, center, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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.

September 23, 2020

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Hispanic leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

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

President Barack Obama meets in the Oval Office with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, and Deputy National Security Advisors Tony Blinken and Ben Rhodes, to discuss ongoing negotiations with Iran, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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

President Donald Trump speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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

FILE - In this May 27, 2020 file photo, a worker processes mail-in ballots at the Bucks County Board of Elections office prior to the primary election in Doylestown, Pa. In every U.S. presidential election, thousands of ballots are rejected and never counted. They may have arrived after Election Day or were missing a voter's signature. That number will be far higher this year as the coronavirus pandemic forces tens of millions of Americans to vote by mail for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

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

In this May 29, 2019, file photo, special counsel Robert Mueller speaks at the Department of Justice Wednesday, in Washington, about the Russia investigation. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee plan to focus their questions in a highly-anticipated hearing with Mueller next week on a narrow set of episodes laid out in the special counsel’s report, an effort to direct Americans’ attention to what they see as the most egregious examples of President Donald Trump’s conduct. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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

In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo The Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward arrives at Trump Tower in New York. Woodward, facing widespread criticism for only now revealing President Donald Trump's early concerns about the severity of the coronavirus, told The Associated Press that he needed time to be sure that Trump's private comments from February were accurate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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

In this July 12, 2018, file photo, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok is seated to testify before the House Committees on the Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform during a hearing on "Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election," on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

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

A Fulton County election worker counts provisional ballots, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Atlanta. Malfunctioning voting machines, missing power cords, and hours-long lines at the polls are being scrutinized in Georgia, where the governor's race is still undecided as votes are still being tallied. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) ** FILE **

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

A man mails a letter on Saturday, August 22, 2020 in Whitehall, Ohio. Postal workers and supporters across central Ohio gathered at Post Offices across the region to protest actions by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy including the removal of sorting machines which has led to mail delivery delays in some states. Critics of these policies fear they will create delays with absentee and mail-in ballots during the upcoming general election. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

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 leaves the High Court in London following a hearing in the libel case brought against him. (Associated Press)

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

In this photo taken on Monday, July 16, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hand with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of the press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) **FILE**

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

Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, lifts off from the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Washington, en route to Andrews Air Force Base and on to Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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

Sen. John McCain, who often confounded colleagues in life, continues to do so in death as senators search for an acceptable honor. (Associated Press)

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 is a former British spy who wrote a dossier about alleged links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. (Associated Press/File)

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