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Charles Hurt

churt@washingtontimes.com

Charles Hurt was the Opinion Editor and is 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

Several FBI headquarters officials, including Director James B. Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and senior counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, were fired for improprieties related to the probe. (Associated Press photographs)

Yes, James Comey, facts really do matter

President Trump is a stooge of Russia, a puppet of Vladimir Putin, we have been told from the beginning. He is a morally unhinged reprobate unworthy of the White House.

December 12, 2019
President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Obama administration’s abuse of power literally worse than Watergate

The FBI spied on an official they believed -- or pretended to believe -- was working inside the 2016 Trump presidential campaign on behalf of the Russian government to hijack the election and install a Manchurian candidate who would give America away to Moscow.

December 9, 2019
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified on national television about her opinions of President Trump. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump impeachment witnesses coddled

If you are a "witness" willing to smear President Trump from inside the federal bureaucracy, then you are treated like some kind of precious, swaddled savior, one who must be protected at all costs from any whiff of fairness or justice or due process.

November 18, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a smart enough politician to know that impeachment will fail to remove the president and could very well cost Democrats control of the House. (Associated Press)

Nancy Pelosi is loser in impeachment inquiry vote

For months, we have listened to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insist that this whole "formal impeachment inquiry" in search of a "high crime" did not require a vote by the full House of Representatives. Until, apparently, it does.

October 31, 2019
Donald Trump threw out the ceremonial first pitch for a 2006 game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump must throw World Series first pitch

The Washington Nationals should invite President Trump to throw out the first pitch at the World Series Game 3 on Friday night to take a historic opportunity to heal our senselessly divided political system in the nation's capital.

October 21, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks at an event concerning Medicare Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, in The Villages, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Impeachment in search of a high crime

This is always the problem with "government first" kleptocrats. They are constantly coming up with "solutions" -- sometimes "final" ones -- and then they go off in search of a problem.

October 3, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during an interview at The Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, in Austin, Texas. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Happy retirement, Speaker Pelosi

Impeachment or bust! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has valiantly fought the war on crazy long enough. She tried her best to be the sane, adult centrist in her party -- no easy task for a lifelong politician from San Francisco.

September 30, 2019