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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

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during the Innovation Showcase, Thursday, July 14, 2016, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Donald Trump should stick to gunslinging strategy, pass on boring Mike Pence

By picking Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, real estate mogul Donald J. Trump would take a serious departure from the instinctual campaign style and gunslinging strategy that has served him so well and allowed him to pull some of the most unlikely spectacular political surprises in recent political times. Published July 14, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, July 5, 2016 with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

On Hillary emails, Comey’s evidence clashes with Comey’s conclusions

So it turns out that while you can indict a ham sandwich, indicting our top diplomat for "extremely careless" handling of national secrets at a time of war against the most determined and diabolical enemy we have ever faced -- well, that is just a waste of time. Inconvenient. Awkward. Published July 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton (The Washington Times/File)

Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi cover-up a warning for American voters

Lady Hillary Clinton's orchestration of a sprawling and fantastically dishonest cover-up of the terrorist attack on her State Department post in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11 is a clear reminder of just how totally indifferent the Clintons are when it comes to their responsibility to the voters they serve, the people they command and the country they represent. Published June 28, 2016

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham as she pounds her fist as she testifies on Jan. 23, 2013 at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearing on the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton’s history of lying is a warning to American voters

If eight years of a Clinton presidency were not enough to teach you about the slow-rolling train wreck soap opera of dazzling indifference, monumental selfishness, convoluted lies and shameless coverups, then just maybe you deserve to live with yet another monstrous mistake. Published June 28, 2016

President Barack Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, before signing bill H.R. 2576, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s whitewashing of the Orlando massacre

Truly, there is no reserve of cynicism vast enough for decent, freedom-loving Americans to fully comprehend the diabolical motivations of President Obama and the henchmen he has running his administration. Published June 22, 2016

FILE - This undated file image shows Omar Mateen, who authorities say killed dozens of people inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday, June 12, 2016. A bartender told The Associated Press that Mateen stalked her nearly a decade ago when he started coming into her Florida bar. (MySpace via AP, File)

While Obama defends Muslims, terrorists get guns

Weeks before killing 49 infidels in Orlando, Omar Mateen walked into a Florida gun store trying to buy body armor and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Suspicious about a Middle Eastern-looking guy jabbering a foreign language into a cellphone, the gun-store clerk denied the man service. Published June 19, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump answers questions during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. A super PAC supporting Donald Trump is hiring a former operative from the Trump campaign. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump again proves he is master of the media

Politically speaking, nobody ever went broke beating up the media. Add this truism to the long, long list of techniques and tactics that Donald Trump instinctively understands at a deep guttural level that nobody in media or politics seems to grasp. Even now, a year into Mr. Trump's Presidential Spectacular. Published May 31, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers training center, Tuesday, May 24, 2016, in Commerce, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

CHARLES HURT: Hillary Clinton fights to overcome a sordid history

Clutching her pearls, Hillary Clinton is stricken. Horrified! Disgusted that Donald Trump would dare to remind voters about all the depraved debauchery she and her lecherous husband inflicted on the innocent American citizen for all of those years. Published May 24, 2016