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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Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum's 21st annual Halloween party at Sake No Hana at Moxy Lower East Side on Oct. 31, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Vulgarian Trump and barbarian Musk at the gate

Former President Donald Trump is at his most vulgar and unsuited for high office when he claims that the 2020 election was stolen. This just in: The 2020 election was stolen! Published December 1, 2022

Nick Fuentes, far-right activist, holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol, in Lansing, Mich., Nov. 11, 2020. Former President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago club with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Nick Fuentes, who has used his online platform to spew antisemitic and White supremacist rhetoric. (Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News via AP, File)

Dems’ latest race hustle is Brown ‘White supremacist’ at Mar-a-Lago

In what we hope are the last, desperate death gurgles of their long, sordid history with racist political strategies, the Democrat party is accusing others of "normalizing antisemitism." Published November 28, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks on the House floor at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Happy Thanksgiving: Gratitude is the best way to start your day — or a country

"In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." -- 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Published November 24, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during a pardoning ceremony for the national Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Happy Birthday, President Biden: Very old and left with nothing but bad options

Welcome to Shamelot. It's not quite the Kennedys, but it's the best the Bidens can do. Published November 21, 2022

Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump keeps it elegant in 2024 presidential campaign announcement

In a speech that would have exhausted Fidel Castro, Donald Trump announced his 2024 campaign for president Tuesday night in Palm Beach, Florida. Published November 17, 2022

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attends a Senate Rules and Administration Committee meeting on the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. The bill is a response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump's efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count Act, the 19th-century law that, along with the Constitution, governs how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Permanent Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

Another close election draws to a close. After a week of counting "post-election" ballots, the results are almost in. Published November 14, 2022

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, in Hialeah, Fla.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Rise of the MAGA clones

Well, no wonder the guy is so damned sanctimonious. Maybe his nickname should be Ron DeLandslide. Or Ron DeSavage. Published November 10, 2022

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of the campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., at the Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

GOP in a tizzy over Don from Queens’ new ‘DeSanctimonious’ nickname

Donald Trump is back. And nobody learned a thing. Published November 7, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about threats to democracy ahead of next week's midterm elections, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, at the Columbus Club in Union Station, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats abort abortion message, turn to fear mongering

It was supposed to be all about abortion. They told us that was going to bring the big blue wave. Published November 3, 2022

In this June 3, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd as he disembarks from his plane for a campaign rally at the Redding Municipal Airport in Redding, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Trump Force One ready to take off for ‘24 presidential campaign

Former President Donald Trump is running for president. The only question that remains is whether he formally announces his 2024 campaign sometime in the next seven days or waits to announce after the midterms. Published October 31, 2022

Cracked Candidate John Fetterman Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

White House may be the only suitable place for John Fetterman

John Fetterman very well may lose this election, but it will not be because of his painfully doddering, incoherent and downright senile performance during this week's debate. Published October 27, 2022

FILE - Democratic candidate for Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams poses for a portrait in front of the State Seal of Georgia on Aug. 8, 2022, in Decatur, Ga. The Georgia governor's race is a rematch of 2018, when Brian Kemp narrowly defeated Stacey Abrams. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Ghosts of Democrats’ future only bring a ‘vortex of misery’

With the Democrat party in full, fiery conflagration two weeks before the midterm elections, now is a good time to take a quick peek at the party's leaders -- present and future. Published October 24, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about the ongoing federal response efforts for Hurricane Ian from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington on Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

‘Buzzkill’ Biden’s financial pandemic looms over midterm elections

Welcome to the "Buzzkill" Biden Financial Pandemic. The Democrats' Globalist Pandemic. Published October 20, 2022

Holy Obama Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The Chosen One returns: Obama back to save his Democrats

Barack Obama is Risen! Published October 17, 2022

The Achievements of President Biden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Light up, America, and cast your ballot this year on Biden’s terrible record

It took a fake news anchor on "Saturday Night Live" to finally ask the question the fake political media in Washington has been ignoring for years. Published October 13, 2022

Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker smiles during remarks during a campaign stop at Battle Lumber Co. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, in Wadley, Ga. Walker's appearance was his first following reports that a woman who said Walker paid for her 2009 abortion is actually mother of one of his children - undercutting Walker's claims he didn't know who she was .(AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Georgia Democrats’ desperate bid to sack Herschel Walker

The devil has gone back down to Georgia. Published October 6, 2022

Democrats' abortion vote illustration by The Washington Times

Democrats cling to abortion

As Sherlock Holmes famously observed, it's often the dog that didn't bark who cracks the case. Published October 3, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during an event on health care costs, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s ‘geriocracy’ reaches constitutional crisis levels

Sparta was a gerontocracy, famously ruled by wise, experienced Greek elders. It worked pretty well. Published September 29, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during a Democratic National Committee event at the National Education Association Headquarters, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The ‘Biden Touch’ of misery

The country is melting down under the flames of historic inflation, rampaging crime, record gas prices, an unprecedented invasion at the border and a growing threat of nuclear war. Published September 26, 2022

Immigrants aboard the Governor head out of Vineyard Haven, Mass., for Woods Hole, Mass., Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. They were being transported on the Yankee Bus. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to a new level by catching officials flat-footed in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., with two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants. On Friday, the migrants were being moved voluntarily to a military base on nearby Cape Cod, Mass. (Ron Schloerb/Cape Cod Times via AP)

Racist residents of Martha’s Vineyard exposed

The only problem with those illegal aliens dumped on Martha's Vineyard? They weren't housekeepers and yard workers. Published September 19, 2022