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    Trump turns his post-election reckoning into an operatic performance of grievances and pugilism

    by Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times Nov 08, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush would blow off steam by clearing brush from his ranch. President Barack Obama would sneak a soupcon of almonds or a cigarette. President Donald Trump's happy place: duking it out with a roomful of pestering reporters.

    Trump turned his post-election news conference Wednesday - normally an occasion for presidents to lick wounds and move on after midterm losses - into a nearly 90-minute political tour de force for the president who loves as much as anything to put on a pugilistic performance.

    He took no blame for the type of humbling losses that Bush called a "thumpin'" in 2006 or Obama acknowledged as a "shellacking" in 2010, when they

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