President Donald Trump spent early Tuesday night making desperate phone calls and blasting Fox News before midterm election results came in.

“I have the ultimate power — it’s called ‘veto,’” President Trump told CBS News in a phone interview before polls first began to close in some states. Already, Trump appeared to make excuses for a potentially massive Republican loss.

Trump also called the Financial Times, assuring reporter Edward Lucas that the U.S. has no immediate plans to strike Iran, the Middle East country Trump started a war with in February.

Trump had a particular grudge against Fox News Tuesday night, texting commentator Greg Gutfeld about his disdain for liberal Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov.

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    I had the impression the russian fuck is awfully quiet.

    But I may be mistaking musk the rat with donnie low t

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      Not nearly enough for the suffering he’s unleashed on the entire human race

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        And let him and his friends get off that easy? No way, try them all, convict them, send them to prison or the gallows, and claw back as much of the money they’ve gained at the expensive of the country as possible.

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          Even if he died he should still be tried posthumously, if only to give his victims closure, claw back some of the money he’s stolen for those victims, and to insure his legacy as the most criminal president of the US is properly recorded. It will also be important for the cases against his collaborators.

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            You can’t try someone criminally posthumously, and the civil trial would not carry the same weight.

            Let alone the media surrounding him would quickly disappear and his cronies could quietly fade from the lime light with all the money they stole.

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              If Pope Formosus could be tried nine months after his death, I don’t see any reason why we couldn’t do it again. Seeing as how Trump was “God-sent” it should be well within the powers of the Roman Catholic Church to do so again.

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          I’d prefer a prolonged suffering for him, both physically and financially, but for the betterment of the people domestic and abroad, I’ll gladly take a quick ending and a posthumous charging of his and his families crimes.

          It’s not the justice he deserves, but it would be best for everyone in the short term.

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        No way. I want to watch him and his cronies squirm in court first. He can die after that.

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          I don’t care about making him suffer. There’s been enough suffering because of him. I just want him to die and be rid of him for good.

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            The only way vance ever sees a day as president is if trump doesn’t finish his term.

            I’d rather see him live to face consequences, honestly. We need to make an example out of him so that nobody tries this shit again, at least for the next century or so…

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            You’re a better person than I. I have 50% more gray hair today than I did 2 years ago and it’s his fucking fault. I have weekly meltdowns. I can’t function at all with this stress. I want that fucker to suffer for what he’s done to me and countless others he’s done worse to.

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                  While it would be hilarious to watch the conservatives tie themselves into knots trying to figure out a way to make it illegal for Obama to do that while also making it fine for Trump that would ultimately be a very bad thing.

                  First it would add legitimacy to Trumps run, not that a lack of that would stop him, but why hand him free ammunition.

                  Second it would massively energize the Republican base, because while some may be tired of Trump, they absolutely loath Obama and would vote in large numbers for Trump just to deny Obama any possible chance of winning.

                  Third, Obama burned a lot of bridges during his two terms and is very much a figure head of the old guard Democrats that are just now losing their grip on the DNC to the actual progressives in the party. Bringing Obama back would be a blow to the progressive wing of the party that we most desperately need in power. Further a lot of Democrat voters soured somewhat on Obama, particularly in his second term, I’m not convinced having him on a ballot would bring more Democrats to the polls than the Republicans it almost certainly would.

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          The cronies definitely, but remember, he strives for attention, whether it comes from good or bad publicity. His case should be dealt with swiftly, and without his direct involvement if at all possible.

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        We’ve lost way too many good people to sudden passings… why the fuck is this miserable pile of shit still ticking?

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      He has served well as the millstone around the Republican neck. Time for him to get a stroke over the vote results and croak.

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    a clearly frantic Trump blamed a potential Republican loss on everyone but himself.

    Of course he did. 🤡

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        Yes and now Trump claims it because he wasn’t, when it’s very clearly Trump and his administration that people are voting against.
        Let’s hope this will make some of the checks and balances work. Obviously supreme court is 100% compromised and defunct, so Trump still has that. But here’s to hoping the democrats will actually do something. My hopes are not high, but at least there’s a chance now.

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    Trump also called the Financial Times, assuring reporter Edward Lucas that the U.S. has no immediate plans to strike Iran, the Middle East country Trump started a war with in February.

    Wait, didn’t he bomb them yesterday?

    Two more years of this crap….

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      Maybe not.

      The GOP civil war has started, its just a matter of who will fire the first bullet and when?

      We’ve heard for years GOP congressmen HATE Trump. Now they see America HATES Trump too. Who (if any) will scramble to cross party lines to impeach and remove to save their own careers?

      I mean, we shouldn’t let them save their own careers, but we should let them act like there’s a chance to appease us before we vote them out and (god willing) prosecute them.

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        Americans on the whole hate Trump, but there’s still that core of 30-ish% who love him uncritically. They’re all Republicans, which makes them around 60% of the GOP and more than enough to determine primary outcomes. It’s hard to get nominated as a Republican without Trump, and now we see that it’s hard to win with Trump.

        I suspect that most of those cult members will just stop voting once their idol fades away. Maybe that will let the Republicans recover in 2030, but you just know Trump’s going to be out for his base in 2028.

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          Just to add to your point about his cult. Reminder a lot of them were politically unengaged up until 2016, without Trump there’s a solid chance they become inactive again.

          Mind you there’s always a risk they latch onto one of his kids but they will still most likely bleed 10 percent or so of their numbers in the process.

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          I suspect that most of those cult members will just stop voting once their idol fades away.

          God willing

          you just know Trump’s going to be out for his base in 2028.

          Let’s hope we get a Big Beautiful Day before that can happen.

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        The founding fathers probably never expected things to go this sideways, but one of the features of seperation of powers was supposed to be that politicians would save their own skin and stop other branches from doing the wrong thing.

        The problem is having captured all the branches, there was no sinking ship for the rats to flee. That has now changed, Trump has become a sinking ship

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        Doesn’t matter who hates him, he’s the face of the Republican party. If he goes down, they go down with him.

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          Not if they flip on his ass. I think Bibi has shit on them as well as trump though, it really depends on what Israel’s next moves are. Not to mention those beholden to other masters like Putin.

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    On a call with the NYT, he said he will accept the results and that he would work with the democrats.