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Legendary journalist Dan Rather threw President Donald Trump's words back in his face in a new Substack essay.

On Tuesday, the U.S. national debt surpassed $40 trillion, a level that has alarmed economists. Rather argued in a new article for his Substack, "Steady," that Trump once promised to eliminate the national debt during his first term. However, that appears to be just another unfulfilled promise.

A GOP senator was hammered by critics on Thursday after he complained about the size of the national debt.

This week, the national debt surpassed the $40 trillion mark, which stunned some political analysts. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) shared a post on X of a chart from Fox News comparing the debt level from the George W. Bush administration through both Trump administrations. His commentary sparked sharp criticism from several analysts.

President Donald Trump's "anti-fraud" project led by Vice President J.D. Vance is nothing more than a "ruse" for a pretext to lock up his political foes, former Trump administration staffer Miles Taylor warned.

Taylor, who previously served in the Department of Homeland Security and is the author of the "anonymous" resistance op-ed, laid out the scheme on his "Defiance" Substack on Thursday.

Attorney General Todd Blanche has been empowered by his confirmation to transform the entire Justice Department in President Donald Trump's image, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman warned in his Talking Feds Substack.

The DOJ is no stranger to being overtaken by corruption, noted Litman. For instance, "John Mitchell ran Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks and went to federal prison for it," while way back under former President Warren Harding, "Harry Doherty turned the Department into a vehicle for graft, his cronies selling pardons and immunities like so many indulgences, earning the DOJ the nickname 'the Department of Easy Virtue.'"

The Trump administration got a tongue-lashing on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" Thursday, following Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's boast that low job numbers are okay because immigrants are being deported to balance it out.

Not only is this not how the economy works, noted anchor Alicia Menendez to former GOP strategist Tim Miller, but it also reveals a glaring contradiction at the heart of MAGA ideology.

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former attorney, seems to have cooked up what one legal expert described as a "fascinating social experiment."

Cohen appeared on CNN's Thursday broadcast of "The Lead" with Jake Tapper, where the two discussed an upcoming interview that Cohen conducted with Trump. The interview stunned some political analysts because of Cohen's involvement in getting Trump convicted on 34 felony counts in New York for falsifying business records related to a hush money payment Trump sent to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.

A panel of experts on CNN blasted through the ramifications of the U.S. national debt hitting the $40 trillion mark.

More than a decade ago, President Donald Trump promised he could eliminate the national debt, and instead introduced a series of tax cuts that accelerated its growth.

A political analyst was flabbergasted on Thursday after the strange saga between Natalie Harp and President Donald Trump took a bizarre turn.

Reports indicate that Harp, whom some have referred to as Trump's "human binky," refused to get a security clearance for over a year until Trump personally intervened. That's despite Harp having close access to the president and relaying messages from foreign leaders to him.

First Lady Melania Trump was roasted by critics on Thursday after making her first public appearance in about a month.

Trump appeared at an event in the Rose Garden, where she announced a landmark strategic alliance with Fox Corporation and IndyCar. It was Trump's first public appearance in some time, and came as questions continued to swirl about her husband, President Donald Trump, and his relationship with his aide, Natalie Harp, whom some have dubbed the president's "security blanket."