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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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[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 11 points 5 hours ago

Honestly. Agreed.

While in office Trump is essentially immune to consequences - there's very little point in trying to go after him again.

But his administration and DOJ have been doing some very blatantly corrupt things for a while now, and their only safeguard was the Republican Congress refusing to do anything about it.

Now that the entire Congress is in Democrat hands, they're vulnerable - so going after them and essentially neutering Trump's tirade against democracy for the rest of his administration certainly seems the best path forward.

Though we've got the next two years to find out what's gonna go down.

[-] cruseo@piefed.world 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie.

Trump 2.0 was so much worse than Trump 1.0 because this time around he surrounded himself by a cadre of sycophant enablers. Going after all of them will be easy, Pickens, and it’s not as if they don’t all belong in jail, too. Especially that Pete Hegseth motherfucker. I’m perfectly happy for Congress to impeach his ass. and then, of course, prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

Also they may be able to go after Musk for his doge bullshit, ideally they strip him of his shares, properties, and citizenship so as to ship his sub human ass back to South Africa broke as a popper.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

And their replacements will have to be confirmed by a Democratic senate.

[-] cruseo@piefed.world 4 points 4 hours ago

this also means no new Trumpy Supreme Court justices

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