Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt is the Opinion Editor and 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.

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A headline about President Donald Trump is displayed outside Fox News studios in New York on Nov. 28, 2018. Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox News for airing bogus allegations of fraud in the 2020 election is set to begin trial on Monday, April 17, 2023, in Delaware. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Dominion vs. Fox News

The sad, beleaguered competitors of Fox News desperately pray that the billion-dollar lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems will do what they have never been able to do: Topple the TV-news ratings king. Published April 16, 2023

Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate on April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla., after being arraigned earlier in the day in New York City. After his initial court appearance in the New York case, the first of several in which he is in legal jeopardy, Trump ticked through the varied investigations he was facing and branded them as “massive” attempts to interfere with the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump’s ‘America First’ our last hope

Whatever you think of Donald Trump, he is a smart businessman, and he is perhaps the shrewdest political observer of our time. Published April 13, 2023

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels arrives for the opening of the adult entertainment fair Venus in Berlin, Oct. 11, 2018. An appeals court ruled Tuesday, April 4, 2023, that Daniels must pay nearly $122,000 of Donald Trump's legal fees that were racked up in connection with the porn actor's failed defamation lawsuit. The ruling in Los Angeles came as Trump also faced a criminal case related to alleged hush money he paid to Daniels and another woman who claimed he had affairs with them. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Stormy the victim talks to Mr. Morgan

Stormy Daniels is on another publicity tour to defend her honor, dignity and chastity. At least she is wearing pants. Published April 10, 2023

Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Trump will surrender in Manhattan to face criminal charges stemming from 2016 hush money payments. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Trump’s the ham sandwich in Bragg’s Banana Republic

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wants you to know that he takes "white-collar crime" very, very seriously. Published April 5, 2023

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is seen at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Friday, March. 31, 2023. Former President Donald Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, Thursday, a historic reckoning after years of investigations into his personal, political and business dealings and an abrupt jolt to his bid to retake the White House. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Chronic ‘Trump Derangement’ disorder turns Democrats Into obsessed political zombies

After seven years of Trump Derangement Syndrome ravaging the country a new, even more devastating disease is sweeping the Democratic Party. Published April 3, 2023

President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks about the school shooting in Nashville during an SBA Women's Business Summit in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 27, 2023, in Washington. Biden has called on Congress again to pass his assault weapons ban in the wake of the Nashville shooting. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden turns Nashville school massacre into White House comedy tour

Donald Trump once said "two Corinthians" instead of Second Corinthians, and the political press melted down. Published March 30, 2023

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tours the site of the Feb. 3, Norfolk Southern train derailment, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. (Allie Vugrincic/The Vindicator via AP, Pool)

Team Biden puts crazed partisan ideology over travel safety

For the three people left in America who are still unclear on this point, crazed partisan ideology does not make the trains run on time. Published March 27, 2023

Former President Donald J. Trump watches the NCAA Wrestling Championships, Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Oops, they did it again! Media falls for another Trump spectacular

The Donald is back! He's still got it. Published March 23, 2023

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg participates in a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Bragg is standing firm against former President Donald Trump’s increasingly hostile rhetoric, telling his staff that the office won’t be intimidated or deterred as it nears a decision on charging the former president. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York Democrats’ mission to get Trump reelected president

New York Democrats normally invest all of their energies into destroying America's largest city. Now they have a new mission: getting Donald Trump reelected president. Published March 20, 2023

Images of Fox News personalities, from left, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Maria Bartiromo, Stuart Varney, Neil Cavuto and Charles Payne appear outside News Corporation headquarters in New York on July 31, 2021. In defending itself against a massive defamation lawsuit over how Fox covered false claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election, the network is relying on a 1964 Supreme Court ruling that makes it difficult to successfully sue media organizations for libel. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Media distortions: What’s really going on in effort to silence Fox News

Reading the unhinged reports in the left-wing media, you might think that Fox News is staggering against the ropes and about to crumple to the canvas for the final, bloody count-out. Published March 7, 2023

Alex Murdaugh is led to the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies for sentencing in in Walterboro, S.C., Friday, March 3, 2023, after being convicted of two counts of murder in the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of his wife and son. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Murdaugh verdict: Jury of ordinary citizens in South Carolina shows us the way

Tangled stories of love and murder drip like Spanish moss from the live oaks in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, marking the stillness of time. Published March 6, 2023

President Joe Biden laughs with Vice President Kamala Harris as the leave after Biden spoke about border security in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Nation annihilator: Biden finds partisan comedy in deaths of innocent Americans

It's all a big, sick joke to President Biden. Published March 2, 2023

Alex Murdaugh is cross-examined by prosecutor Creighton Waters after taking the stand during his murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool)

Southern Gothic: Alex Murdaugh is an admitted liar and thief, but did he kill his wife and son?

Alex Murdaugh's devouring testimony in his double murder trial last week brought to mind the opening line of A.J. Liebling's charitably reported and beautifully written biography of Huey Long. Published February 27, 2023

President Joe Biden delivers a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, at the Royal Castle Gardens in Warsaw. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

As ‘Ukraine Joe’ celebrates one year of war, East Palestine pays

Donald Trump won the 2016 election because American voters had more faith in a "reality television" star to remain in character than they did in a lifelong politician to keep her promises. Published February 23, 2023

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley looks to supporters at a town hall campaign event, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, in Exeter, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Beware Nikki Haley, Grade A bureaucrat in ‘Oedipal primary’

Former South Carolina Gov. and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has joined the 2024 Republican presidential race as the latest "I'm not Donald Trump" candidate. Published February 20, 2023

Cracked Candidate John Fetterman Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Democratic Party has zombielike lust for power

You have to hand it to Democrat politicians: They are seriously committed to their politics. For them, politics is more important than life itself. Published February 16, 2023

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., laughs b before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

George Santos’ short, honest life

At this week's State of the Union address, President Biden sat on a throne of lies. Congressman George Santos, meanwhile, took an aisle seat. Published February 9, 2023

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. The balloon was struck by a missile from an F-22 fighter just off Myrtle Beach, fascinating sky-watchers across a populous area known as the Grand Strand for its miles of beaches that draw retirees and vacationers. (Chad Fish via AP)

Biden vs. Party ‘balloon’

The most powerful military ever assembled by humans was thwarted this past week. By a balloon. Published February 5, 2023

Mad Joe Biden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

USA for sale: Biden is America’s Caligula

Donald Trump was American Caesar. Joe Biden: America's Caligula. Published February 2, 2023

FILE - President Joe Biden hands the pen he used to sign the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., watches in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Republicans stage intervention for President Biden, spending junkie

The fight is spending. The time is now. Published January 30, 2023