Trump Mocks The Clinton Campaign For Gunning After An Election Recount

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November 27, 2016

Because we don’t actually get President Trump until he is inaugurated in January, what we do get is endless speculation about his Cabinet picks and a little bit more of the Don dancing on the grave of the Democrats. His latest thing to yell about is the Hillary Clinton camp’s backing of Green Party candidate Jill Stein‘s attempt to secure a vote recount in various battleground states.

Basically Stein has been raising money to force a recount in three states – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. There will be a recount in Wisconsin, with the other two pending. To flip the result of the election, a recount would have to hand all three states to Clinton, and quite frankly that is not going to happen. Sorry.

The Clinton campaign’s choice to join the recount was a curious one, given that even the Obama admin considers Trump’s victory as a fair one and representative of “the will of the American people”.

So they’re careful about the reasoning. In a statement, they skirted around saying they’re looking for an actual result here:

Regardless of the potential to change the outcome in any of the states, we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself.

As you might expect, Trump’s means of prodding Hillary happens to be on Twitter. Apologies for the block of Tweets here, but the man has spun a multi-post yarn. Not the most efficient way of conveying information, but he’s President now.

The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

The Democrats, when they incorrectly thought they were going to win, asked that the election night tabulation be accepted. Not so anymore!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton conceded the election when she called me just prior to the victory speech and after the results were in. Nothing will change

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

Hillary’s debate answer on delay: “That is horrifying. That is not the way our democracy works. Been around for 240 years. We’ve had free —

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

and fair elections. We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a –

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

during a general election. I, for one, am appalled that somebody that is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind —

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

of position.” Then, separately she stated, “He said something truly horrifying … he refused to say that he would respect the results of —

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

this election. That is a direct threat to our democracy.” She then said, “We have to accept the results and look to the future, Donald —

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

Trump is going to be our President. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.” So much time and money will be spent – same result! Sad

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

For her part, Stein is denying that the Clinton camp has much of a role in the recount at all:

We are not “working with” Clinton. Our lawyers have made courtesy calls to the Clinton, Johnson + Trump campaigns. https://t.co/hjQkhgILMX

— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) November 27, 2016

Source: The Guardian / Twitter.

Photo: Getty Images.