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Rowan Scarborough

Rowan Scarborough

rscarborough@washingtontimes.com

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

Trump Media and Technology Group and nuclear energy illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Trump Truth Social goes nuclear

Turns out President Trump is not just an oil-and-gas man. The family business he founded has embraced a new technology to replicate the sun's energy right here on Earth.

December 31, 2025
This courtroom sketch depicts Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Va., the man accused of planting a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties on Jan. 5, 2021, in Washington, being sworn in, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, before U.S. Magistrate Moxila Upadhyaya, at Federal Court in Washington, as U.S. Attorney Charles Jones, seated left, and Defense Attorney John Shoreman, seated center, look on. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

A look at accused pipe bomber Brian Cole Jr.

Brian Cole Jr. told investigators he was "disappointed" by the 2020 election results the night he placed two pipe bombs near Republican and Democratic national headquarters on Capitol Hill.

December 9, 2025
The United Nations, Al Jazeera and Hamas illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

U.N., Al Jazeera: Hamas bedfellows

The Israel Defense Forces has collected a cache of Hamas secret papers that reveal how two supposedly neutral organizations betrayed their professional duties to help attack Jews.

November 27, 2025
President Donald Trump and Russia collusion claims in court illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Trump’s Russia hoax payback strategy

President Trump's hierarchy is signaling more criminal charges against Russia hoaxers besides the indictment of former FBI director and dossier impresario James B. Comey.

October 27, 2025
Partisan Justice Department going after political enemies illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

How the DOJ went after Trump’s allies

The Biden Justice Department and prosecutor Jack Smith were involved in more than just destroying Donald Trump in 2022-2023 as a presidential candidate.

October 2, 2025
Trump-Russia collusion and Steele dossier illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Obama team rigged intel to prop up dossier

Russian leader Vladimir Putin most assuredly did not try to boost President Trump's 2016 election chances against Hillary Clinton. He hated both of them.

August 7, 2025
President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Declassified files expose Obama-era plot to frame Trump with Russia lies

Tulsi Gabbard's stunning words that Barack Obama led a "treasonous conspiracy" to sabotage incoming successor Donald Trump stand as the starkest event so far in the Democratic Party-inspired Russia hoax and its dark history. But an analysis by The Washington Times shows that her show-stopping press release contained one misleading conclusion in her argument.

July 28, 2025
Illustration: Google by John Camejo for The Washington Times

Google has found a favorite in comrade Mamdani

I recently took a look at two telling online posts about Zohran Mamdani's background. I then asked Google's generative "AI Overview" about them and received sanitized replies.

July 20, 2025
Audrey Strauss, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference, July 2, 2020, in New York. Social media is abuzz with news that a judge is about to release a list of "clients," or "associates" or maybe "co-conspirators," of Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. While some previously sealed court records are indeed being made public, the great majority of the people whose names appear in those documents are not accused of any wrongdoing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Ex-Florida police chief: No ‘client list’

With the new outrage over Jeffrey Epstein, I decided to reach out to some of the players in the 20-year saga who investigated the pedophile's crimes in state, federal, civil and news media arenas.

July 18, 2025
This combo of pictures shows President Donald Trump, left, addressing a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025, and a handout of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attending a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis - Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

The Cruz-Carlson debate and Iran’s bounty on Trump

Hiding out in Iran is a U.S.-deported Afghan national who today is a historical footnote in the "never-ending war" versus Tehran "can never have nuclear weapons" debate dominating American politics.

June 22, 2025