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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

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on May 18, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump dominates world stage and U.S. media fabricates

CHATHAM, Va. | This being that time of year when we are supposed to remember and be grateful, it is highly appropriate that we in the damned media — we, the enemy of the public; we, the ink-stained wretches; we, the writers of history's first draft — should pause a moment and give thanks for President Donald J. Trump, politician extraordinaire. Published May 30, 2017

A reporters raises their hand as White House press secretary Sean Spicer talks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Spicer discussed health care and FBI Director James Comey, comments made by Hillary Clinton and other topics. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Anatomy of Fake News

Every time the Washington political press freaks out and goes into full panic mode against President Trump, the blockbuster, Watergate-volume story always unfolds the same way. Published May 11, 2017

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James Comey deserved firing as FBI director

For the better part of a year now, the only thing everyone in Washington could agree upon was that now-ex FBI Director Jim Comey was an overreaching, underperforming dolt. Published May 10, 2017

President Donald Trump waves as he walks across the south lawn of the White House in Washington late Saturday night, April 29, 2017, on this return from a rally in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Donald Trump breaks political mold by staying on offense

I asked President Trump on Friday if he thought it was small, petty and unhelpful to have his predecessor -- in a $400,000 speech to global elites in New York City -- ridiculing Mr. Trump's use of social media as a way to go around the liberal press and reach voters directly. Published April 30, 2017

President Trump has arguably done more than his predecessors to get the border wall along the U.S. frontier with Mexico finally realized. Despite congressional promises, little construction progress has yet been made. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Congress has been stalling border wall funding

A full decade after voting to construct a secure barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, Congress continues to refuse to lay out the money required to build the damned wall. Published April 25, 2017

FILE- In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump waves as he walks with first lady Melania Trump during the inauguration parade on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Trump raised $107 million for his inaugural festivities. Trump’s inaugural committee is due to file information about those donors with the Federal Election Commission and said it would do so on Tuesday, April 18. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

Donald Trump’s political death being reported (and greatly exaggerated)

The river of fake news continues to run unabated. It's not even 100 days into the Trump presidency, and already the man is finished. Unprecedented turmoil and mayhem. Chronic infighting. Can't get anything done. Even Republicans in Congress are turning on him. Published April 18, 2017

FILE - This Nov. 28, 2012 file photo show then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice leaving a meeting on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi terrorist attack. Once seemingly destined to become secretary of state, Rice now holds a lower profile job at the White House, juggling one global crises after another for President Barack Obama and trying to insure that his broad list of foreign policy priorities doesn’t fall by the wayside in the widening storm of problems overseas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Susan Rice somehow manages to make Benghazi cover-up seem minor

All these months, it turns out, it was his right-hand hatchet gal and exposed serial prevaricator Susan Rice who was behind the scenes in his administration working all the levers of the most powerful espionage machine on planet Earth to spy on Mr. Obama's political enemies. Published April 4, 2017

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., leaves a closed-door strategy session as he works to get past last week's failure to pass a health care overhaul bill and rebuild unity in the Republican Conference, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trumpcare failure a sign of real change in Congress

It sure ain't pretty, but this is what "post-partisan" politics looks like. And despite all the caterwauling you hear from the political press here in Washington, that is a good thing. Published March 28, 2017

The corpse flower attracts a curious crowd — and flies. (Associated Press/File)

Neil Gorsuch, corpse flower and swamp flies

Every few years, the botanical garden down on the National Mall proudly boasts its prized "corpse flower." In years when our federal swamp gets hot and icky enough, the foul-smelling plant turns a throbbing purple and blooms. Published March 19, 2017

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats in Congress are sitting around while Republicans try to clean up the Obamacare mess. (Associated Press/File)

Obamacare disaster is Republicans’ to fix

The entire onus on fixing Disastercare rests squarely on the shoulders of President Trump and congressional Republicans. Mr. Obama and his "Choom Gang" Democrats are standing around whistling and smoking their joints. Published March 13, 2017