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Charles Hurt: The Greatest Political Show on Earth Winds to a Spectacular Close

As this epic adventure of Donald J. Trump’s presidency winds to a spectacular close, I am reminded as I have been so many times over the past five years just how inadequate we sad scribes in the political press have been at capturing it all — this, the Greatest Political Show Earth has ever seen.

US President Donald Trump claps his hands as he departs, after speaking during a campaign

Charles Hurt — Stop the Pearl Clutching: Election Suspicions Are Legit

At this point in the 2016 election, the sitting president had already weaponized the federal government into a sprawling covert-spy operation against the man who had just been elected president. It would be years, however, before guilty parties even admitted that they had, indeed, used the government to spy on their political opponents at the height of a national election.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, listens as House S

Charles Hurt: Donald Trump Should Nominate Miguel Estrada to Supreme Court

Soon after Mr. Estrada’s nomination, Senate Democrats began complaining about the nominee. He was a dark horse, they said. “No paper trail,” they whispered to us at the time. Not sure he was who he said he was. You know, wrong “background.” Couldn’t be trusted.

President Bush's nominee for a seat on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Mig

Charles Hurt: Dr. Fauci’s Intolerable Arrogance

Anthony Fauci’s embarrassing face-plant on Opening Day at Nationals Park was not because he threw a crazy sidewinder rainbow that looked more like a bad throw toward first base than a ceremonial first pitch towards home plate.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,