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Charles Hurt

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.

Columns by Charles Hurt

Outgoing White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, one of President Trump's closest aides, arrives to meet with the House Intelligence Committee. (Associated Press)

Hope Hicks and the truth of little white lies

Hope Hicks has more integrity and is far more honest than any of the lying politicians on the House "intelligence" committee who grilled her for nine hours this week about whether she has ever lied on behalf of her boss, the president of the United States. Published March 4, 2018

In this Feb. 27, 2018 photo, White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, one of President Trump's closest aides and advisers, arrives to meet behind closed doors with the House Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in Washington. Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's most loyal aides, is resigning. In a statement, the president praises Hicks for her work over the last three years. He says he "will miss having her by my side." The news comes a day after Hicks was interviewed for nine hours by the panel investigating Russia interference in the 2016 election and contact between Trump's campaign and Russia. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hope Hicks and the truth of little white lies

Hope Hicks has more integrity and is far more honest than any of the lying politicians on the House "Intelligence" Committee who grilled her for nine hours this week about whether she has ever lied on behalf of her boss, the president of the United States. Published March 2, 2018

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., a close ally of President Donald Trump who has become a fierce critic of the FBI and the Justice Department, strides to a GOP conference followed by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., also a member of the Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. Trump last week declassified a document written by the committee's Republican majority that criticized methods the FBI used to obtain a surveillance warrant on a onetime Trump campaign associate. Trump said the GOP memo showed the FBI and Justice Department conspired against him in the Russia probe. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Memo exposes sources, methods of political hit

Among the ever-evolving excuses for why Democrats and political hitmen inside the government wanted to keep all their dirty laundry secret was that airing it would reveal important "sources and methods" Department of Justice investigators use to "keep America safe." Published February 6, 2018

President Trump aims to keep up his drumbeat for freedom. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump highlights America’s freedom

President Trump has officially transformed himself from merely a great American president into a historic world leader keeping lit the torch of freedom for all people around the world. Published February 1, 2018

President Donald Trump arrives to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (Jim Bourg/Pool via AP)

Flaunting lawlessness in the Capitol

Never in the history of this Republic has there been such a jubilant celebration of lawlessness in the heart of our government as we saw at President Trump's State of the Union address to Congress. Published January 30, 2018

White House adviser Stephen Miller appears on CNN anchor Jake Tapper Sunday show. After an exchange, Mr. Tapper cut off Mr. Miller's mic, saying, "I think I've wasted enough of my viewers' time." (CNN.com)

CNN’s Jake Tapper uses Stephen Miller incident to create buzz

The latest drive-by character assassination of White House advisor Stephen Miller began, as it so often does, in a fact-free live TV orgy of public posturing by a journalist eager to display his virgin-snow virtuosity when it comes to their unalloyed hatred of President Donald Trump. Published January 11, 2018

In this Oct. 7, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Donald Trump: He’s no Throne Sniffer

There is so much to love about President Trump that it is hard to settle on the single greatest thing about the 45th president. Published December 31, 2017

In a show of support, Iraqi Hezbollah scouts parade with a portrait of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Associated Press/File)

Obama-era conspiracy theories crazy but true

The most sinister twist in this entire spy novel extravaganza we are now enduring has to be the eight-year scheme by the Obama administration to betray the American people and hand unbridled power to one of our most ardent and determined enemies. Published December 18, 2017

Akayed Ullah vindicates Trump on immigration policy

The animal was not detected beforehand and his plot was not foiled by authorities. A bomb did go off and terror was most certainly struck in hearts of millions. It all could have ended very, very differently and untold numbers of innocent humans would have -- once again -- been slaughtered in the name of Allah. Published December 12, 2017