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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

A reporters raises their hand as White House press secretary Sean Spicer talks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Spicer discussed health care and FBI Director James Comey, comments made by Hillary Clinton and other topics. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Anatomy of Fake News

Every time the Washington political press freaks out and goes into full panic mode against President Trump, the blockbuster, Watergate-volume story always unfolds the same way.

May 11, 2017
James Comey

James Comey deserved firing as FBI director

For the better part of a year now, the only thing everyone in Washington could agree upon was that now-ex FBI Director Jim Comey was an overreaching, underperforming dolt.

May 10, 2017
President Donald Trump waves as he walks across the south lawn of the White House in Washington late Saturday night, April 29, 2017, on this return from a rally in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Donald Trump breaks political mold by staying on offense

I asked President Trump on Friday if he thought it was small, petty and unhelpful to have his predecessor -- in a $400,000 speech to global elites in New York City -- ridiculing Mr. Trump's use of social media as a way to go around the liberal press and reach voters directly.

April 30, 2017
President Trump has arguably done more than his predecessors to get the border wall along the U.S. frontier with Mexico finally realized. Despite congressional promises, little construction progress has yet been made. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Congress has been stalling border wall funding

A full decade after voting to construct a secure barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, Congress continues to refuse to lay out the money required to build the damned wall.

April 25, 2017
FILE - This Nov. 28, 2012 file photo show then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice leaving a meeting on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi terrorist attack. Once seemingly destined to become secretary of state, Rice now holds a lower profile job at the White House, juggling one global crises after another for President Barack Obama and trying to insure that his broad list of foreign policy priorities doesn’t fall by the wayside in the widening storm of problems overseas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Susan Rice somehow manages to make Benghazi cover-up seem minor

All these months, it turns out, it was his right-hand hatchet gal and exposed serial prevaricator Susan Rice who was behind the scenes in his administration working all the levers of the most powerful espionage machine on planet Earth to spy on Mr. Obama's political enemies.

April 4, 2017
The corpse flower attracts a curious crowd — and flies. (Associated Press/File)

Neil Gorsuch, corpse flower and swamp flies

Every few years, the botanical garden down on the National Mall proudly boasts its prized "corpse flower." In years when our federal swamp gets hot and icky enough, the foul-smelling plant turns a throbbing purple and blooms.

March 19, 2017
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats in Congress are sitting around while Republicans try to clean up the Obamacare mess. (Associated Press/File)

Obamacare disaster is Republicans’ to fix

The entire onus on fixing Disastercare rests squarely on the shoulders of President Trump and congressional Republicans. Mr. Obama and his "Choom Gang" Democrats are standing around whistling and smoking their joints.

March 13, 2017
Jeff Sessions

Jeff Sessions too nice for Al Franken, Patrick Leahy, other jackals

When Jeff Sessions is told that he has lied under oath, failed to answer questions completely and misled the United States Senate, he responds with the humility of a church deacon who has just been accused by fellow parishioners of piling too much of the fried chicken onto his plate at the potluck supper.

March 5, 2017