Charles Hurt
Columns by Charles Hurt
Hillary Clinton’s ‘What Happened’ blames everyone else for presidential loss
NEWSFLASH: President Trump's fingerprints were NOT found on any of the money or anywhere around the crime scene. This comes as twice-failed presidential candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton launches yet another campaign to blame everybody she can for her crushing loss last year to Mr. Trump. Published September 10, 2017
Donald Trump sidesteps roadblock of Republicans
The swamp gets sloshed! Republicans stunned! GOP reeling! Blindsided! Published September 7, 2017
Donald Trump schools Barack Obama on U.S. Constitution
Everyone knows that former President Barack Obama, our Great American Constitutional Law Professor, got mercilessly schooled by the Supreme Court during his eight years in office. Now he is getting schooled by a brash-talking, orange-haired reality-TV star and real-estate developer from Queens. Published September 4, 2017
There are no decent plans in Congress, just lies, intraparty squabbling
We are witnessing some of the most spectacularly absurd political gambits in American history unfold right now before our very eyes. Published August 27, 2017
Democrats decry the KKK while forgetting legacy of one of their own
Because, of course, they want rule of law to reign, a group of citizens began digging up the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis this week over his helping found the Ku Klux Klan. Published August 20, 2017
Charlottesville riots show media manage to make situation worse
Eight years after it was proved -- even more convincingly than the moon landing -- that a black man can get elected president of the United States of America, we still have slow learners stuck in the past. Published August 13, 2017
Homeland Security has improved under Trump
In the long march to remaking American greatness, President Trump has certainly attracted plenty of scorn and ridicule from all the predictable and boring corners over all the predictable and boring nonissues. Published August 8, 2017
Health care debate hasn’t dulled Donald Trump’s political instincts
Even amid the cosmic chaos that is this White House, President Trump maintains the laser focus of his wickedly sharp political instincts. Published August 1, 2017
Donald Trump’s attacks on Jeff Sessions’ recusal don’t help drain the swamp
The Alabama Republican is a deeply good man of impeccable decency. Donald Trump -- the man -- certainly owes Mr. Sessions respect, gratitude and loyalty. But when a man becomes president, he forfeits so many of the conventions that govern normal relationships between people in ordinary life. Published July 25, 2017
Blame Democrats who created Obamacare and are dishonest about it
Politicians far, far away in Washington -- advised by armies of bureaucrats whose salaries you pay but you have never met -- all huddled in Congress deciding what pills they will give you and how long is long enough for you to be on life support. Published July 18, 2017
Long live President Trumpopov!
You don't have to be a seasoned Kremlinologist steeped in the chicanery of klepto-thugocracies to realize that America really dodged a bullet in last year's presidential election. Published July 11, 2017
Donald Trump kills Obama Doctrine in Poland
Nearly a decade after Barack Obama snuffed out America's beacon of freedom to the world, President Trump has relighted the hopeful flame. Published July 6, 2017
Donald Trump seizes moral high ground in Charlie Gard case
The secret to President Trump's remarkable outsider success is his fearless willingness to walk into the most politically fraught situations, redefine every long-held prejudice and seize the moral high ground by embracing the simplest truth. Published July 4, 2017
Donald Trump’s mad genius drives schoolmarms of political press crazy
Oh, the mad genius of Donald Trump! On the cusp of one of the biggest victories of his administration, cracking down on illegal aliens who commit vicious crimes inside our country, President Trump took to Twitter. Published June 29, 2017
Paul Ryan is afraid to lead
The thing people like about House Speaker Paul D. Ryan is that he is a serious guy who is capable of thinking big and has an ambitious agenda to salvage our ungovernable federal bureaucracy. Published June 22, 2017
Bern victims pile up in Democratic Party
If the anti-Trump fever the media keeps telling us all about cannot break through in Georgia's 6th District, then it truly is nothing but a phantom that exists nowhere but in the minds of media elites hysterically trying to will President Trump out of existence. Published June 20, 2017
Jeff Sessions takes the gloves off
In Tuesday's testimony, Mr. Sessions excoriated -- in a voice that appeared quavering with anger at times -- those who are knowingly distorting plain and simple events into this vast web of conspiracy. Published June 13, 2017
Committee carousel: James Comey skates by the tough questions
Fired FBI Director James B. Comey appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week to much fanfare, bearing enough revelations for both sides to walk away claiming victory. Published June 12, 2017
James Comey hands Donald Trump re-election victory
On one side of the television split screen, U.S. senators were squabbling, interrupting, misleading and orating about Russian mirages around every corner. On the other side of the screen was President Trump standing on a tarmac in Ohio and talking to victims of Obamacare. Published June 8, 2017
Donald Trump should consider becoming his own solicitor general
President Trump's single greatest strength is that he -- and he alone -- is his own top adviser and most trusted confidant. It's just he, himself and @realDonaldTrump. Which is kind of funny because Mr. Trump's greatest weakness also happens to be that he -- and he alone -- is his own top adviser and most trusted confidant. Published June 6, 2017