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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

Migrants applying for asylum in the U.S. make breakfast on the border in Tijuana, Mexico. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump stops Nancy Pelosi’s Mexico enablers of child abuse

"Threats and temper tantrums" are better known as "smart negotiating skills." It is how this president managed for the first time in 40 years to find a solution to deal with an immigration problem that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have refused to fix.

June 9, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller speaks at the Department of Justice Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Washington, about the Russia investigation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Robert Mueller pulls a James Comey

In this latest episode of "Prosecutors Gone Wild," special counsel Robert Mueller performed what can only be described in legal terms as "pulling a Jim Comey."

May 29, 2019
Maximum Security appeared to have won the 145th Kentucky Derby on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, however, the horse was disqualified for interference. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, the Kentucky Derby and fake news

In the stunning confusion of Saturday's Kentucky Derby as we tried to comprehend why Maximum Security's jockey had been disqualified after appearing to win the race, my first thought -- naturally -- was: "I cannot wait to see what President Trump tweets about this!"

May 5, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to President Trump's plan to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities by saying, "Using human beings — including little children — as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable, and in some cases, criminal." (Associated Press/File)

Oh, to work in Nancy Pelosi’s vineyard

Once again, President Trump has hit upon a supposedly "controversial" proposal that has caused the entire herd of fainting goats in the Washington press corps to collapse in fevered panting and jerky spasms. And, once again, the idea is simple, logical and genius.

April 12, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

‘Never Trumpers’ are suddenly constitutionalists

Now come all the great Washington "conservatives" lambasting President Trump for threatening to declare a "national emergency" so he can finally build the promised southern border wall that got him elected president.

February 17, 2019
The U.S. Capitol dome is seen before the sun rises in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

State of the Union? Kermit Gosnell could be governor of Virginia

Last week, a major political party in America openly embraced legislation to legalize elective abortion during live human birth. Previously, such infanticidal horrors had been glimpsed only in murder trials of monsters like Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist serving a life sentence for murdering three babies at birth.

February 5, 2019
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, left, gestures as his wife, Pam, listens during a news conference in the Governors Mansion at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Northam is under fire for a racial photo that appeared in his college yearbook. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Ralph Northam blackface sparks outrage, silence over killing babies

What is truly amazing is how many Virginia Democrat politicians had to touch that hot stove before they got the message that even mainstream Democrat voters do not approve -- no, they are appalled, aghast and unbelieving -- at the mere notion of an elective abortion during delivery.

February 3, 2019