Charles Hurt

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

Donald Trump tweets torture media

Just when they thought it was safe to go outside again, the political press is breaking out the smelling salts again.

November 29, 2016

Jeff Sessions racism smear by Democrats goes back to Reagan

In 1986, President Reagan nominated Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to the federal bench. The son of a general store keeper, Mr. Sessions was highly regarded for his intellect and devotion to the Constitution. The American Bar Association deemed him "qualified" for the post. But then he came to Washington and met the United States Senate for confirmation hearings.

November 21, 2016

Obama arrogantly blames deplorable racists, says Democrats ‘have better ideas’

For eight years after America elected her first black president, Americans were accused of being racist for pointing out President Obama's insufferable arrogance.

November 15, 2016

Donald Trump outsmarts media as he sets sights on Obama’s divisive, racialist policies

President-elect Donald J. Trump -- the name really has a sweet ring to it! -- has earned a mandate unlike any predecessor in more than 30 years.

November 10, 2016

Welcome, Democrats, to the revolution

Yes, Hillary, this revolution is real.

November 8, 2016

‘Crooked’ Hillary Clinton, the oath of office and a Thanksgiving pardon

If Hillary Clinton wins next week's election, the United States will immediately be plunged into a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have not seen since at least Watergate. Perhaps not since the Civil War.

November 2, 2016

Anthony Weiner’s revenge on Clintons

Behold, the Revenge of the Weiner. Only in the world of the Clintons could a lecherous serial oversharer like Anthony Weiner become such a star.

October 30, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s ‘psychotic’ lies she gets away with

Hillary Clinton is a liar. She has terrible instincts. She doesn't believe in anything. Her head is broken. She doesn't know why she should be president. She is pathological. And she is psychotic. Just ask everybody who works for her. Just ask campaign chairman John Podesta. Just ask the people working the hardest to get her elected president.

October 27, 2016

Trump may be what Grant was for Lincoln’s America

Once again Donald Trump revealed his true inner racist self by going to a famous Civil War battlefield in a nod to the spectacular turning point in that epic war.

October 24, 2016

Donald Trump needs to talk about Hillary Clinton for rest of campaign

From the start of this crazy, wild election, Mr. Trump's campaign slogan could have been, "Well, you can screw it up." That has been his message and it has worked running against first Republicans, then Democrats and now a cabal of Republicans, Democrats and the dishonest media.

October 19, 2016

Donald Trump can win despite biased media, Republican traitors

Donald Trump has had a rough couple of weeks. Democrats and the Clinton campaign -- by which I mean the media -- have thrown more slime and dirt at the Republican presidential nominee than any other politician in the history of television. Yet, Mr. Trump is still standing.

October 18, 2016

Clinton vs. Bush redux in 2016 election

It was always going to be this way: Bush vs. Clinton 2016. From the very start, the media tried to rig this election to be a showdown between the Republican Party's polite and uptight Bush clan and the Democratic Party's shameless and self-serving Clinton mafia.

October 12, 2016