Charles Hurt (1972-) was an American journalist and conservative political commentator. He was one of Donald Trump's earlier supporters in Washington DC.
Biography[]
Charles Hurt was born in New York City, New York in 1972, the younger brother of Virginia congressman Robert Hurt. He went to Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and worked for The Detroit News after his graduation in 1995, working at the paper until 2001, when he moved to Washington DC and became a writer for The Charlotte Observer. He served as the DC bureau chief of The New York Post for five years, and, from 2003 to 2007, he served as a reporter for The Washington Times; he later left the paper to return to NYP. He was an early supporter of Donald Trump's right-wing populism, and he claimed that Trump, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Martin Luther King Jr. were all great champions of freedom.