Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt is the Opinion Editor and a columnist for The Washington Times. Often seen as a Fox News contributor on the cable network’s signature evening news roundtable, Mr. Hurt in his 20-year career has worked his way up from a beat reporter for the Detroit News and Washington correspondent for the Charlotte Observer before joining The Washington Times in 2003. He later served as D.C. bureau chief and White House correspondent for the New York Post and editor at the Drudge Report. He can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com.

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Columns by Charles Hurt

In this Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, photo, a can of Spam is shown, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Biden shatters ‘Misery Index’

America, you've got SPAM. But in President Biden's America, you better lock it up! Published August 1, 2022

Then-President Donald Trump and then-former Vice President Joe Biden square off during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

‘America First’ vs. American carnage

The case for former President Donald Trump has never been clearer. Published July 28, 2022

Former President Donald Trump reacts before addressing attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, Saturday, July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Trump: The joyful gambler

During the 2020 election, the Swamp used every weapon under God to blast then-President Donald Trump out of the White House. Published July 25, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media after exiting Air Force One, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Hiding behind sunglasses, Biden lies again

So, the president announced Wednesday that he has cancer. Published July 21, 2022

Alec Baldwin, left, and Hilaria Baldwin appear at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2017. Hilaria Baldwin is expecting baby No. 7. She announced Tuesday on Instagram that she’s expecting, sharing a video of the moment she and Alec told their kids. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Democrat Party’s only ‘Hispanic’ voter left is Hillary Baldwin

Serious question: If all Hispanics are tacos as first lady Jill Biden told us this week, what kind of taco is Alex Baldwin's wife? Published July 14, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about abortion access during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, July 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden gives hope to imbeciles everywhere

President Biden has plumbed the greatest depths to expose and remove every last barrier to the White House. He has proved that anyone can be president. Published July 11, 2022

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to those gathered near the site of Monday's mass shooting during the Highland Park July 4th parade Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Democrats offer word salad in response to unspeakable tragedy

Like sick moths to a flame, Democrat politicians flutter brainlessly to every catastrophe -- their willful dishonesty and shallow stupidity outmatched only by their misplaced confidence in the solutions they offer. Published July 7, 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies under oath before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, June 23, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. She delivered alarming new testimony about Donald Trump's actions that day and provided detailed, first-hand knowledge of what she saw and heard in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, including her description of an angry and defiant Trump who ignored repeated warnings against summoning the mob to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and then refused to intervene to stop the violence as rioters laid siege. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Telephone game in the ‘Age of Trump’

If you want to know why former President Donald Trump and so many of his supporters don't trust assurances from government Democrats that the 2020 election was on the level, just ask Cassidy Hutchinson. Published July 4, 2022

Abortion-rights activists protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Saturday, June 25, 2022. The Supreme Court's ruling allowing states to regulate abortion has set off a mad travel scramble across the country to direct patients to states that still allow the procedure. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Look out, the ‘abortion election’

Democrats have not been this angry since Abraham Lincoln freed their slaves. Published June 30, 2022

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd gathered at the Landers Center in Southaven, Miss., Saturday, June 18, 2022. (Joe Rondone/The Commercial Appeal via AP)

Divine intervention of Donald Trump

Constitutionally speaking, the most amazing thing about Friday's blockbuster Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is that anyone found it controversial in the first place. Published June 24, 2022

In this Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, photo Republican congressional candidate Mayra Flores speaks at a Cameron County Conservatives event in Brownsville, Texas. Flores argues that Democrats are forcing Texans choose between their energy sector jobs and curbing climate change. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Hispanic voters break free of Democrats’ racist grip

It's the biggest "Big Lie" in politics today. And it is falling apart faster than President Biden riding a bicycle at the beach on a sunny afternoon. Published June 23, 2022

President Joe Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, June 17, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Juneteenth in America

Happy Juneteenth, America! Published June 20, 2022

"Apocalypse Now" and Marlon Brando as Col. Walter E. Kurtz. (Courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment)

‘Apocalypse Wow’: Jan. 6 clown committee pursues Col. Kurtz in latest tragicomedy

You know things are bad in America when 20 million people would rather watch another hysterical congressional hearing on former President Donald Trump than focus on all the misery in their lives. Published June 16, 2022

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., updates reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sex, lies and gaslighting sparked Capitol riot on Jan. 6

As hotly partisan as the Jan. 6 committee has been from the start, it is right about one thing: The Capitol riot did not happen in a vacuum. Published June 13, 2022

The House select committee tasked with investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol meets to hold one of former President Donald Trump's allies in contempt, former strategist Steve Bannon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 19, 2021. From left to right, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

‘Foie gras Democrats’ try third failed impeachment

The out-of-touch has never been so in-your-face. Published June 9, 2022

Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who represented the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, reads his prepared statement to members of the media outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Sussmann was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI when he pushed information meant to cast suspicions on Donald Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

D.C.’s citizenry is a national embarrassment

For decades, Washington, D.C., has clamored to become a state -- complete with all the power and privileges reserved for states in our federal system. Published June 2, 2022

Sunrise silhouettes the US Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va., early in the morning on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Celebrating the triumph of individual gun rights on Memorial Day

Americans gather on the Fourth of July to read the Declaration of Independence. Many of us gather at Christmas to read from Luke the story of Jesus' birth. Published May 30, 2022

Vice President Joe Biden, left, listens as President Barack Obama announces that Biden will lead an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence in response to the Connecticut school shooting, during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Dec. 19, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Biden, Obama exploit tragedy for personal, political gain

There are special dungeons in hell reserved for politicians who vote to send our boys to die in wars they don't really believe in. President Biden, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton will find out in due time. Published May 26, 2022

Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Welcome a new era of truth in America

The Democrat Party's political funhouse hall of mirrors has finally shattered. Published May 23, 2022

Former President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally in Greensburg, Pa., on May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Primary voters thrilled with Trump’s new party

Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party is officially now complete. Published May 19, 2022