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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

President Joe Biden speaks at the grand opening ceremony for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Friday, June 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Democrats are the party of dementia, derangement and dysphoria

ATLANTA -- Like Alzheimer's, dementia and addiction, mental illness is an affliction that attacks whole families. Sometimes these diseases are actually worse for those not diagnosed with the disease, but rather sentenced to a special kind of hell caring for those who are -- out of love, obligation or family.

July 1, 2024
President Joe Biden is seated during a campaign event with former President Barack Obama, June 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The left turns on Biden

And just like that, the whole reason Joe Biden ran for president goes down the drain.

June 24, 2024
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump motions to the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The real reason Trump is running again

Barack Obama was America's first social media president. But he was not smart enough or strong enough to use that independent power against the government machine.

June 10, 2024
Hunter Biden arrives to federal court, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Rock bottom for Hunter Biden

It is most certainly true that if Hunter Biden's last name were not Biden, he would not find himself passing through a throng of media every day this week into a Delaware courtroom to face charges that he lied.

June 6, 2024
A banner in support of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is set up before a campaign rally in the Bronx borough of New York, Thursday, May. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump’s Empire state of mind

Under smiling skies last Thursday night, former President Donald Trump ventured far beyond Yankee Stadium into a tough Democratic neighborhood in the South Bronx to be greeted by an adoring, enthusiastic crowd waving red, white and blue.

May 28, 2024
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wis., on May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) **FILE**

Beating the odds: Trump always plays to win

Walking out of court in Manhattan last week, former President Donald Trump boasted that he was up in all the polls even though, as he likes to remind us, "I have a gag order!"

May 20, 2024