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President Donald Trump's top strategists were already bracing for disaster on a private call nearly a week before Republicans' historic midterm collapse.

Six days before Election Day, more than two dozen of Trump's political advisers gathered on a video call where James Blair, who left the White House to run the president's midterm operation, told the group, "I'm getting my affairs in order. I suggest everybody else do the same," The New York Times reported Wednesday.

The roughly half-hour conversation was steeped in gallows humor, according to four people on the call who spoke to the Times. Participants riffed on funeral plans, prison meals, presidential pardons and even fleeing the country....