trump (convicted felon, defamer, insurrectionist, contemnor, and rapist - $537M)

[tek]

Trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about Mehmet Oz, and is blaming everyone who advised him to back Oz -- including his wife, describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him.

[noblepa]

I am sure that he takes it as a personal insult that Oz and his other endorsed candidates lost.

As always, it is about him. "It reflects badly on ME that my endorsement wasn't enough to carry the day", is probably what he is thinking. Or "Even with my golden endorsement, Oz found a way to screw things up".

A normal person would say "I think that Dr. Oz was the better candidate and I'm proud to have backed him. I wish he had won, but the people of PA chose differently. I wish Senator-elect Fetterman the best of luck".

He's not really mad that Oz lost. He's mad that HE lost.

But then TFG is anything but normal.

[Phoenix520]

The schadnfreude is strong this morning.

[Gregg]

Aren't there laws about "no purchase required"?

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No one is gonna win anyway, so it hardly matters. Trump is getting quite the reputation for having these incentives and never awarding the prize.

[Suranis]

He's also mad that he can't spin this a a victory and know people will just not mention all the people he endorsed but did not win. like he did in 2018. In his head, it's the fact he is now exposed as a loser and can't hide it that has him lashing out at everyone.

[raison de arizona]

tfg is claiming Bolduc lost for not embracing the Big Lie tightly enough, "Had he stayed strong and true, he would have won, easily." He's claiming victory, "174 wins and 9 losses, A GREAT EVENING, and the Fake News Media, together with their partner in crime, the Democrats, are doing everything possible to play it down." Then he moves on to how well he did in the "General". The one he lost?

[Foggy]

Boy, I bet Melanie feels just awful about making her husband support Mehmet Oz.

That was really a huge mistake, and it kind of casts some doubt on her widely acknowledged political instincts.

We all thought it was Donald himself making the picks and choosing who to support, but now we know that Melanie picked all the losers, because Donald never makes any mistakes.

Bad wife!

[humblescribe]

I know fer shure that he is blaming Melanie for not picking the winning Powerball numbers.

[Ben-Prime]

tfg is claiming Bolduc lost for not embracing the Big Lie tightly enough, "Had he stayed strong and true, he would have won, easily." He's claiming victory, "174 wins and 9 losses, A GREAT EVENING, and the Fake News Media, together with their partner in crime, the Democrats, are doing everything possible to play it down." Then he moves on to how well he did in the "General". The one he lost?

Didn't he allegedly endorse something like 300+ candidates this time around, though? So the math seems a little off here if that is true.

ETA: it looks like the 300+ number I've heard has to be wrong, or at least exaggerated.

[Dr. Ken]

He's taking this well

[RTH10260]

Trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about Mehmet Oz, and is blaming everyone who advised him to back Oz -- including his wife, describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him.

Beware flying paper rolls ketchup bottles

[RTH10260]

I am sure that he takes it as a personal insult that Oz and his other endorsed candidates lost.

As always, it is about him. "It reflects badly on ME that my endorsement wasn't enough to carry the day", is probably what he is thinking. Or "Even with my golden endorsement, Oz found a way to screw things up".

A normal person would say "I think that Dr. Oz was the better candidate and I'm proud to have backed him. I wish he had won, but the people of PA chose differently. I wish Senator-elect Fetterman the best of luck".

He's not really mad that Oz lost. He's mad that HE lost.

But then TFG is anything but normal.

I think it hurts him very much that Oz lost - Oz is the only candidate that matched his status as entrepreuneur, also tv personality.

[RTH10260]

He's taking this well
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/stat ... 3311439872

Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski


I laugh in the face of the pathetic sycophants in my former party who continue to worship this fragile loser. What a f*cking baby!!!


10:01 PM · Nov 9, 2022

He better not ask about the vote count had he been running in FL himself

[pipistrelle]

I am sure that he takes it as a personal insult that Oz and his other endorsed candidates lost.

As always, it is about him. "It reflects badly on ME that my endorsement wasn't enough to carry the day", is probably what he is thinking. Or "Even with my golden endorsement, Oz found a way to screw things up".

A normal person would say "I think that Dr. Oz was the better candidate and I'm proud to have backed him. I wish he had won, but the people of PA chose differently. I wish Senator-elect Fetterman the best of luck".

He's not really mad that Oz lost. He's mad that HE lost.

But then TFG is anything but normal.

I think it hurts him very much that Oz lost - Oz is the only candidate that matched his status as entrepreuneur, also tv personality.

Equally anti-American and beholden to foreign governments.

[Slim Cognito]

Just my arrogant opinion, but I doubt Melania could be bothered to recommend anyone. trump is just looking for somebody to blame.

[tek]

[Foggy]

Just my arrogant opinion, but I doubt Melania could be bothered to recommend anyone. trump is just looking for somebody to blame.

Of course. He has so little respect for women, he would never listen to her recommendations.

I think she said something about Oz being better looking than her husband, and this is his revenge.

[Kendra]

[Shizzle Popped]

He's taking this well

Of course, OSG is too stupid to realize that roughly 3.25 million fewer voters in Florida showed up for this election.

[Kendra]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/0 ... s-00066097

Mounting legal threats to Donald Trump may have appeared ominous before the 2022 congressional elections. They’re nothing compared to what comes next.

Some of the political protections that the former president was enjoying are effectively gone. And the firewall of Republican insulation he expected from the House and Senate appears likely to have some holes in it after an unexpectedly strong showing by Democrats in the midterms.

With the midterm elections in the rearview, federal prosecutors are no longer abiding by an unwritten code to avoid politically sensitive investigative steps before voters go to the polls. An Atlanta-area prosecutor probing Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election had also paused most of her potentially explosive steps while Georgia voters were casting ballots. And the inability of Republicans to deliver massive margins of victory threatens to deprive Trump of the overwhelmingly Republican Congress that he had hoped would wield committee gavels and subpoena power to protect him and torment rivals.


All this could be further complicated should Trump, as expected, announce his third run for the presidency in the coming week. With that declaration nearing, Trump finds himself in a new, more precarious reality — one in which federal and local investigators are closing in on his top allies in at least three criminal probes. The newly reelected New York attorney general is working to dismantle his business empire and the House’s Jan. 6 select committee is about to unload a massive trove of evidence that may advance the criminal cases against him.

Here are the top six takeaways:

[raison de arizona]

No matter how you count it, it is at least his fourth run.

[Gregg]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/0 ... s-00066097

Mounting legal threats to Donald Trump may have appeared ominous before the 2022 congressional elections. They’re nothing compared to what comes next.

Some of the political protections that the former president was enjoying are effectively gone. And the firewall of Republican insulation he expected from the House and Senate appears likely to have some holes in it after an unexpectedly strong showing by Democrats in the midterms.

With the midterm elections in the rearview, federal prosecutors are no longer abiding by an unwritten code to avoid politically sensitive investigative steps before voters go to the polls. An Atlanta-area prosecutor probing Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election had also paused most of her potentially explosive steps while Georgia voters were casting ballots. And the inability of Republicans to deliver massive margins of victory threatens to deprive Trump of the overwhelmingly Republican Congress that he had hoped would wield committee gavels and subpoena power to protect him and torment rivals.


All this could be further complicated should Trump, as expected, announce his third run for the presidency in the coming week. With that declaration nearing, Trump finds himself in a new, more precarious reality — one in which federal and local investigators are closing in on his top allies in at least three criminal probes. The newly reelected New York attorney general is working to dismantle his business empire and the House’s Jan. 6 select committee is about to unload a massive trove of evidence that may advance the criminal cases against him.

Here are the top six takeaways:

NY Times:

...and this should worry Biden and the Democrats, because...

[RTH10260]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/0 ... s-00066097

All this could be further complicated should Trump, as expected, announce his third run for the presidency in the coming week. With that declaration nearing, Trump finds himself in a new, more precarious reality — one in which federal and local investigators are closing in on his top allies in at least three criminal probes. The newly reelected New York attorney general is working to dismantle his business empire and the House’s Jan. 6 select committee is about to unload a massive trove of evidence that may advance the criminal cases against him.

Here are the top six takeaways:

Has the House already been declared to be in safe Democrat hands? A Republican held House will dismantle the Jan 6 committee as one of its first actions and hide all the evidence collected.

[Gupwalla]

Has the House already been declared to be in safe Democrat hands? A Republican held House will dismantle the Jan 6 committee as one of its first actions and hide all the evidence collected.

They won’t have to. The select committee is only authorized for the duration of the current Congress. They have always been working towards a termination date by Jan 3 at the latest.

As of about a month ago, Rep. Lofgren was confident they would have their report completed by then.

[Ben-Prime]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/0 ... s-00066097

All this could be further complicated should Trump, as expected, announce his third run for the presidency in the coming week. With that declaration nearing, Trump finds himself in a new, more precarious reality — one in which federal and local investigators are closing in on his top allies in at least three criminal probes. The newly reelected New York attorney general is working to dismantle his business empire and the House’s Jan. 6 select committee is about to unload a massive trove of evidence that may advance the criminal cases against him.

Here are the top six takeaways:

Has the House already been declared to be in safe Democrat hands? A Republican held House will dismantle the Jan 6 committee as one of its first actions and hide all the evidence collected.

I would hope one of the cleanup acts of the committee will be to publish (what they can) and share with the Executive (the stuff that can't be published) what they have, but I've always been an optimist.