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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Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he smiles while speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. A Florida Judge sanctioned Trump and one of his attorneys Thursday, Jan. 19, ordering them to pay nearly $1 million for filing what he said was a bogus lawsuit against Trump's 2016 rival Hillary Clinton and others. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

As Trump is wooed back to Twitter, Biden family looking at jail time

Facebook is serenading Donald Trump to return to its platform, and Twitter is practically begging his thumbs to come back. Published January 26, 2023

President Joe Biden arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The worm has turned on Biden in Washington

After two years of unending disasters from this administration, misplaced government papers are going to be the downfall of President Biden. Published January 23, 2023

Al Gore, former vice-President of the United States and Chairman and Co-Founder of Generation Investment Management, reacts during the 53rd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 17, 2023. The meeting brings together entrepreneurs, scientists, corporate and political leaders in Davos under the topic "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" from 16 to 20 January. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Revenge of the extraterrestrials: Al Gore and John Kerry’s only hope is human sacrifice

Build the pyres! Raise the gallows! Pound the stakes into the ground! Gather tinder! And someone brings the sulfur matches! Published January 19, 2023

Hunter Biden arrives in the East Room before President Joe Biden speaks awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people at the White House in Washington, July 7, 2022. Come next year, Republicans have made clear, the January 6th select committee will be no more. Investigations into the president’s son, Hunter Biden, will quickly begin. And GOP priorities like border security, parents’ rights and defunding the IRS will be on fast tracks to the House floor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Biden name is trash, but Little Girl should get same cut as ‘Big Guy’

He is such a cheapskate that he won't even give his own daughter her family name. Published January 16, 2023

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, speaks to the Transportation Research Board gathering in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. The world's largest aircraft fleet was grounded for hours by a cascading outage in a government system that delayed or canceled thousands of flights across the U.S. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Buttigieg’s notice to ‘airmen’: Better take the train — or not

After somehow breaking our supply chain in the middle of a recession, America's "chestfeeding" secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, managed to grind air traffic to a halt this week. Published January 12, 2023

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., votes for himself for the ninth time in the House chamber as the House meets for the third day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

McCarthy’s path forward that even Republicans couldn’t screw up

Never mind all the swooning ladies, pearl-clutchers and screaming weenies in the Republican Party. Or the eye-bulging hysteria from the political press. Published January 5, 2023

Rep.-elect George Santos, R-New York, speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Yeah, that’s the ticket, Mr. Santos! Another year, another liar in Congress

Sounds like this pathological liar from New York who got elected to the House of Representatives is a real nut job -- a perfect fit for Congress. Published January 3, 2023

Written in Hell by the Devil Pelosi Herself Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

2022: A year to forget

It's over. And if you're reading this, you survived. The year 2022 will go down in history as, well, a year. Published December 29, 2022

Trump Illustration by Alexander Hunter/ The Washington Times

‘Tis the season for Trump

Donald Trump is the Santa Claus of politics. Published December 22, 2022

Workers begin to lay the bronze statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill onto a flatbed truck on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, in Richmond, Va. The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed the statue, its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Second wave of Civil War Reconstruction: Erasing history in Richmond and Detroit

We have reached the point in the collapse of American leftist ideology where they are digging up the dead. Published December 19, 2022

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. A Mexican national was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for trafficking the largest amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities in 2021 and 2022. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Illegal immigration, fentanyl and the politics of Trump’s harsh language

Courtney Bannick, a police officer in a small city outside Orlando, Florida, nearly died this week while making a traffic stop that uncovered the presence of illegal substances. Published December 15, 2022

National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Twitter’s new reign of free speech exposes true fascists like Alexander S. Vindman

If Alexander S. Vindman were not on Twitter, he would probably be out among the serious people doing real damage. Yes, Twitter is a sewer. But it is also a babysitter for ridiculous people. Published December 12, 2022

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel speaks to a packed room at the opening of the RNC's new Hispanic Community Center in Suwanee, Ga., June 29, 2022. A decade after its last election autopsy, the Republican National Committee is moving forward with a new post-election audit designed to examine the GOP's underwhelming performance in the recent midterms and the party's broader struggles in the years since former President Donald Trump took power. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Time for new leadership at the RNC after three straight failed elections

It's starting to look like maybe -- just maybe -- the Republican Party might be having trouble getting their candidates elected. Published December 8, 2022

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Musk said during a presentation Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2022, that his Neuralink company is seeking permission to test its brain implant in people soon. Musk’s Neuralink is one of many groups working on linking brains to computers, efforts aimed at helping treat brain disorders, overcoming brain injuries and other applications. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Latest warrior in Trump movement, Elon Musk, exposes corrupt Twitter

When President Donald Trump arrived on the political scene, he was a bull in a china shop. That was his most important and appealing attribute. Published December 5, 2022

Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum's 21st annual Halloween party at Sake No Hana at Moxy Lower East Side on Oct. 31, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Vulgarian Trump and barbarian Musk at the gate

Former President Donald Trump is at his most vulgar and unsuited for high office when he claims that the 2020 election was stolen. This just in: The 2020 election was stolen! Published December 1, 2022

Nick Fuentes, far-right activist, holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol, in Lansing, Mich., Nov. 11, 2020. Former President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago club with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, as well as Nick Fuentes, who has used his online platform to spew antisemitic and White supremacist rhetoric. (Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News via AP, File)

Dems’ latest race hustle is Brown ‘White supremacist’ at Mar-a-Lago

In what we hope are the last, desperate death gurgles of their long, sordid history with racist political strategies, the Democrat party is accusing others of "normalizing antisemitism." Published November 28, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks on the House floor at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Happy Thanksgiving: Gratitude is the best way to start your day — or a country

"In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." -- 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Published November 24, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during a pardoning ceremony for the national Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Happy Birthday, President Biden: Very old and left with nothing but bad options

Welcome to Shamelot. It's not quite the Kennedys, but it's the best the Bidens can do. Published November 21, 2022

Former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump keeps it elegant in 2024 presidential campaign announcement

In a speech that would have exhausted Fidel Castro, Donald Trump announced his 2024 campaign for president Tuesday night in Palm Beach, Florida. Published November 17, 2022

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attends a Senate Rules and Administration Committee meeting on the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. The bill is a response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump's efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count Act, the 19th-century law that, along with the Constitution, governs how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Permanent Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

Another close election draws to a close. After a week of counting "post-election" ballots, the results are almost in. Published November 14, 2022