Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Nobel laureate David Baltimore says he overstated case, and the origins of the virus are still unknown…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/09/leading-biologist-dampens-his-smoking-gun-covid-lab-leak-theory

Leaked Trump Tape Is "The Ultimate Smoking Gun"

A leaked tape shows President Trump urging Georgia election officials to "find" him the votes to win the state.
https://youtu.be/ZWb1bzYpZxI

“Drop the Podesta Emails”: Senate Report Sure Seems Like Another Trump-Russia Smoking Gun | Vanity Fair

More details of Roger Stone’s interactions with WikiLeaks and Paul Manafort’s Russian ties don’t look great for the Trump campaign.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/drop-the-podesta-emails-senate-report-sure-seems-like-another-trump-russia-smoking-gun

The Michael Flynn revelation: Bombshell or business as usual? - The Washington Post

After years of President Trump and his allies claiming that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was a witch hunt and that federal law enforcement systematically targeted Trump and those around him, Wednesday brought what many of them labeled a bombshell. New documents turned over by the legal team of former national security adviser Michael Flynn show an unnamed official preparing for the interview in which Flynn lied to the FBI by musing about whether the goal was “to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Flynn’s legal team labeled the documents a “smoking gun” that indicate this was a perjury trap, and however likely Trump was to pardon Flynn, he appears even likelier now. But just how truly damning are the new documents? ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/30/michael-flynn-revelation-bombshell-or-business-as-usual/

An Impeachment Smoking Gun: The Damning Letter Trump Can’t Cover Up – Mother Jones

Smoking guns ain’t what they used to be. Last week, one such smoking gun emerged that should have been a turning point in the Ukraine episode, for this was proof—confirmation—that Donald Trump pressured Ukraine not for any official policy aims, but for his own personal benefit. Yet in the swell of Trump chaos and impeachment news, this new material did not get the full stop-the-presses notice it deserved. And, consequently, it did not alter the overall shape and political dynamics of the Trump-Ukraine scandal. But it should have.....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/01/an-impeachment-smoking-gun-the-damning-letter-trump-cant-cover-up/

The Ukraine call transcript is pretty darn close to a smoking gun - CNN Politics

The transcript of a July phone call between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky amounts to a clear case of a (barely) unspoken quid pro quo involving the digging up of dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.....

https://apple.news/AxUuWE_MLTqmqJqrDn9TALQ

The GOP's white supremacy now has a smoking gun - Raw Story

The United States Supreme Court is expected to rule shortly in the case of Department of Commerce v. New York—a critical legal battle over the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census...
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/the-gops-white-supremacy-now-has-a-smoking-gun/

Newly revealed email from Trump transition could be the smoking gun -- ThinkProgress.org

A key aide in the Trump transition appeared to write in an email that Trump should seek to ease sanctions on Russia because that country had helped Trump win the election. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/newly-revealed-email-from-trump-transition-could-be-the-smoking-gun-c97c4fcda2b3/