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Kelly Sadler is the Commentary Editor and a columnist for The Washington Times. Often seen as a Newsmax contributor, Ms. Sadler started out as a beat reporter at Bloomberg News, and later covered politics and commentary during the 2016 presidential election at the Washington Times. Ms. Sadler is a Trump Administration alum, serving as a Special Assistant to the President, where she coordinated surrogate coverage and talking points. She most recently served as the communication director for America First Action. She can be reached at ksadler@washingtontimes.com.

Columns by Kelly Sadler

Elon Musk flashes his t-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Crying tears of joy: Massive federal layoffs

U.S. employers added 177,000 jobs in April, even though the federal government had shed 9,000 jobs. Since President Trump took office in January, 26,000 jobs have been slashed from the federal workforce.

May 6, 2025

Tech billionaire Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, on March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

The British are coming: Elon Musk is a modern-day Paul Revere

The "woke" Stasi are in charge in Britain, with tech billionaire and X owner Elon Musk warning that our trans-Atlantic cousins are facing a "civil war."

August 13, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an event highlighting the Biden-Harris Administration's investments in electric school buses at Lumen Field in Seattle on Wednesday, oct. 26, 2022. (Karen Ducey/The Seattle Times via AP)

President Kamala Harris?

"Who doesn't love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus?"

July 21, 2024

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about the American drone strike on Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani during a campaign rally at the University of Dubuque, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

No, Mr. Biden, ‘both sides’ are not to blame for attempted assassination of Trump

On Jan 20, 2021, President Biden, in his Inauguration Day address, pledged his "whole soul is this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation."

July 15, 2024

Moderate Sen. John Fetterman (Illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times)

John Fetterman: Senator for life

On Thursday, Sen. John Fetterman adjourned the Senate. Sitting on top of the podium, with all eyes on him, the Pennsylvania Democrat said: "Under previous order, the Senate stands adjourned until 3 p.m. on Monday. Bang gavel."

June 18, 2024

This cover image released by Parkwood/Columbia/Sony shows “Act ll: Cowboy Carter” by Beyonce. (Parkwood/Columbia/Sony via AP)

Why Beyonce cutting a country album is good news for Donald Trump

This year, global superstar Beyonce, known to her fans as "Queen Bey" and characterized by Wikipedia "as a prominent cultural figure of the 21st century," dropped a country music-inspired album called "Cowboy Carter."

June 5, 2024

Illegal immigrant invasion and crime illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Feeling the pain of the illegal migrant invasion

The New York Times estimates 180,000 illegal migrants have flooded the city in the last two years, with 60,000 of them residing in city shelters.

April 18, 2024

Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 18, 2016. For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do. He transformed the U.S. Supreme Court into a conservative majority that would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Pro-life community, why are you so hard on Trump?

As a woman who has suffered through infertility and has gone through the in vitro fertilization process, I find abortion abhorrent.

April 10, 2024

Obama, Biden and the mainstream media press corps illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

How Obama ruined the mainstream press corps

After officially declaring Easter Sunday "Transgender Day of Visibility," a move that enraged evangelical Christians, Catholics and even Jews, President Biden insisted a day later that he "didn't do that."

April 3, 2024

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, March 7, 2024, in Washington. Seated at left is Vice President Kamala Harris and at right is House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP, File)

Illegals are taking your jobs and diluting your vote

Illegals first, Americans second. That's the mantra of the current White House.

March 12, 2024

President Joe Biden speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s bloody hands

"The idea that anyone will be deported without actually having committed a felony or a serious crime is going to end in my administration," Joe Biden promised while campaigning in December 2019.

February 26, 2024

President Joe Biden listens as he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli and U.S. government officials, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. For the second time this month, the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel. The State Department said Friday, Dec. 29, that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had told Congress that he had made a second emergency determination covering a $147.5 million sale for equipment that is needed to make the 155 mm shells that Israel has already purchased function. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden’s betrayal of Israel for Michigan votes

For President Biden's reelection campaign, kowtowing to radicals in Michigan is more important than providing unwavering support to our only democratic ally in the Middle East.

February 20, 2024

Then-President Donald Trump meets with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during the NATO summit at The Grove, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Watford, England. Former U.S. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Same old story: Media recycles Russia-Trump hysteria from 2016 with NATO flap

So, it's begun again -- the manufactured outrage, the outright lies, the twisting of Donald Trump's words by a leftist mainstream media eager to thwart his presidential comeback bid.

February 13, 2024

Supporters of the Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Lai Ching-te, who also goes by William, attend a rally in southern Taiwan's Tainan city on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 ahead of the presidential election on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

As Taiwanese head to the polls, will voters reject or embrace China?

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- "Here, take these," said a campaign aide to Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as she shoved two erasers into my hand. "It's to erase all the fake news coming from the mainland, the CCP. Don't believe a word they say."

January 12, 2024

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the lighting ceremony of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Joe Biden, our milquetoast president normalizing the abnormal

In 2020, Joe Biden promised Americans that if they elected him president, he would restore "honor and decency to the White House."

December 19, 2023

President Joe Biden speaks at CS Wind, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Pueblo, Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

The Democrats’ war on American competence

Do Americans want a functioning society or one that obsesses over being diverse, equitable and inclusive? You can only have one, not both.

December 12, 2023

Illustration on the workings of Biden family corruption by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Whaddya know? Trump was right about Biden family corruption all along

"The president should be held accountable," then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sept, 24, 2019, just short of four years ago, opening a formal impeachment inquiry into then-President Donald Trump.

September 13, 2023

Jean-Pierre and White House Follies Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Liberal press ignores Biden’s missteps, serves as campaign surrogate

After President Biden was goaded by conservative media to take a break from his vacation and visit the damage incurred by the devastating wildfires in Hawaii last month, his consolation tour was largely panned.

September 4, 2023

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump, recruiting thousands of Americans to come to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to his own. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Why Trump is winning the GOP primary — handily

It's the economy, stupid. And open borders. Plus, what seems to be a never-ending war in Ukraine, even as Americans suffer at home.

August 29, 2023

Hunter Biden waits for the start of his father's, Vice President Joe Biden's, debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky, Oct. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Joe didn’t know? How dumb do they think we are?

"I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings," presidential candidate Joe Biden told Fox News about his son Hunter's foreign lobbying activities in 2019.

July 26, 2023