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

CHARLES HURT: Shenanigans of Clinton’s husband will be major liability in fall campaign

The general election isn't even officially underway yet, and already the leading front-runners of both major parties are in lockstep agreement on one major point: Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agree that disgraced former President Bill Clinton will play a huge role in the upcoming campaign. Published May 19, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump grows in President Obama’s political culture

A rare point of universal agreement in all this trenchant political acrimony: No matter what you think of Donald Trump, the political environment in which the flashy real estate mogul has so brilliantly thrived was created entirely by President Obama. Published May 16, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump presidency would revive neutered Congress, restore power to the people

Unruly voters have elected an opportunistic showman as their presidential nominee. They were aided by infiltrators in the primary who were not even Republicans. Published May 11, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Obama, Loretta Lynch use distorted lens of racism to attack bathroom bill

The economy is gasping, the world shudders in violence, invaders heave across our southern border, and despair is etched on the faces of the American people. So, in the final year of his reign, what does our great Prophet of Hope and Change give us? Published May 10, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Flawed Donald Trump better than Hillary Clinton

Now, it is time to unify behind your party's nominee. Published May 4, 2016

CHARLES HURT: David Brooks should stay in his little bourgeois strata

If in the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is king, then columnist David Brooks of the New York Times is blind, deaf and dumb inside the Beltway. Published May 2, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump wins over voters, and that’s who counts

The only people left debating who will be the 2016 Republican nominee for president are professional politicians and the pundits they serve. Published April 27, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Bathroom fight draws GOP away from the real issues

Note to professional politicians: Voters really don't care what bathroom Bruce Jenner uses. That is between him, her and their psychiatrist. Published April 24, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Ted Cruz fails to heed own advice, get out of race he can’t win

What strange bedfellows and broken pretzels politics do make! Mere weeks ago, Sen. Ted Cruz pressured Gov. John Kasich to get out of the race for the Republican nomination because he had no mathematical chance of winning. Published April 19, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Clarence Thomas smeared in HBO’s ‘war on women’ movie

Twenty-five years later, HBO this week debuts a movie called "Confirmation," a drama rehashing all the lurid -- yet entirely unsubstantiated -- smears used in the great effort to destroy the character of one of America's first black Supreme Court justices. All because he was conservative. Published April 14, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Paul Ryan is no knight to save Republican presidential nomination

Here in Washington, nothing ever goes "bump" by itself. Which leads us to the question, "What is Paul Ryan up to?" Published April 12, 2016

CHARLES HURT: It’s time for Trump to get back to winning

Losing sucks. Especially if you are not accustomed to losing and Donald J. Trump has built his whole campaign on being a winner who wins. Published April 7, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Recent ‘conservative’ presidents expanded government

In the past 28 years America has elected two presidents from the "conservative" party, the one that claims to stand for lower taxes, responsible spending and limited government. Both have been named Bush. Published April 5, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders have little in common

In this brief cessation of hostilities between enemy forces on both sides of the political divide, it is a good time to take stock of where primary voters have taken the two parties. Published March 29, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump reveals inner statesman, terrifies naysayers

The race is over. Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. Published March 22, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump may be flawed, but Washington is worse

Their delusions swarm unabated. Published March 20, 2016

CHARLES HURT: Marco Rubio is the tea party heartthrob who turned establishment shill

Like the Titanic before it, the U.S.S. Jeb! set sail with such great puffery and fanfare that the passengers on board the gilded ship sipping from champagne flutes were filled with confidence and optimism about the wondrous journey to follow. Quite bullish they were! Published March 15, 2016