Posted on 11/26/2016 2:28:32 PM PST by COUNTrecount
President-elect Donald Trump denounced the effort to recount Wisconsin's votes as a "scam" engineered by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, calling on voters to "accept this result and then look to the future."
On Saturday, the campaign of Democratic contender Hillary Clinton said it would back Stein's efforts to take a fresh look at voting results in Wisconsin, a crucial swing state that narrowly backed Trump over Clinton. Stein has been raising millions for more than a week—more than she did for her entire campaign, in fact.
In a statement, however, Trump blasted the effort as a way for Stein to "fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount. All three states were won by large numbers of voters, especially Pennsylvania, which was won by more than 70,000 votes," Trump said.
"This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing," the president-elect added.
The Clinton team had been quiet about Stein's crusade, but campaign lawyer Marc Elias said that because a recount was set into motion Friday — and could begin as soon as next week — they want to see a "fair" process for all involved.
"Because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise this option ourselves," Elias wrote in a Medium post explaining the decision, "but now that a recount has been initiated in Wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides."
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You are most kind!
I hope he does just that. Until then he can’t show his hand. But hit them as hard as he can with this act of civil war the democrats are to perpetrate.
There is no way a nobody like Jill Stein would get $7 million in donations (and in such a short time...and at a rate of $160,000 every 5 minutes,) without this being a part of Soros/Clinton plan to try and up-end the election Maybe this is why a nobody like Jill Stein ran, because this was going to be the game plan if the unthinkable happened and Donald Trump won. It’s time for the tar and feathers..
LOL - thanks - that helps a little.
Who guarantees the integrity of the votes and that they haven’t been changed?? How about exposing the millions of RAT votes via voter fraud??
Your assessment makes the most.. maybe only sense.
“Of course this would almost immediately go to the supreme court... that is why we are short one justice (under mysterious circumstances) The court will tie and the lower court rulings will stand.”
Recess appointment. 5-4 rats. Now what?
I think Trump knows its Soros, but he really can’t do anything until he’s inaugurated.
Participate? It’s a Soros-Stein-Clinton political coup! They say a Soros bot came in at 3 am after Stein announced and every hour on the hour, $160,000 would magically appear in the total. Some call it a scam, but I don’t think so.
This is Soros/Clinton buying Jill Stein to do the dirty work! They’re trying to steal the election!
Also, look at the timing! Thanksgiving when everyone is busy-thru Christmas, again when everyone is busy.
There has been more than enough time to mess with the machines and find paper ballots in car trunks!
This thing reeks to high heaven. I hope and pray that I’m wrong.
Remember, the Soros gang held a meeting after the election on post-election strategy. It is my gut feeling they came up with this - first, get some half-assed group to come out with semi-allegations about voting machine tampering without a scintilla of evidence. Second, get Stein to bring the initial recount request, even though she got all of 1 percent of the vote and won’t pick up any votes of consequence in a recount, so the fault for being a disruptive sore loser will not lie on Clinton. Then grab on to what, if any, additional votes she gets and then make all sorts of claims about hacking and votes not counted and somehow hope that they can get (or claim they should have gotten) an additional 22,000 votes in Wisconsin then take it to Michigan and Pennsylvania, with the support of their loud screamers in the streets and those threatening the lives of the individual Trump electors (truly disgusting that they have not denounced these bums). Where this strategy fails is as follows: first, those relatively few Wisconsin precincts that use voting machines are not centrally hooked up and do not use common software; they would have to be individually hacked which would be a monumentally complex job or the third district canvass (the second right after the election caught the 5000 vote Trump overcount) reveals additional overcounts, only none for Hillary. Second, Trump has an excellent legal team - his choice for White House counsel is an election lawyer who served as Chairman of the Federal Election Commission. Additionally, Reince Preibus, his new chief of staff and ex-RNC Chairthing, is from one of the best law firms in the State of Wisconsin - Michael, Best & Friedrich, which will provide an army of onsite lawyers with excellent knowledge of Wisconsin law, agencies and courts. Third, even if the Clintons could get past Wisconsin and Michigan, they have almost no chance to make up 70,000 votes to take the lead in Pennsylvania - in addition, recounting Pennsylvania opens up voting practices in Philadelphia which have historically been rife with vote adding and corruption (the Trump team should pound this). Thus, I would suspect that if Wisconsin looks like it will come up dry, the Clinton/Soros gang will abandon efforts in the other two states. One thing that I find surprising - Obama has not been supportive of her on the recount and also, he was apparently the one that pressured her to concede after zombie Podesta publicly appeared and seemed to say they would do nothing for the rest of Election Night. (Thank you, President Obama!) What this does indicate to me is that Hillary needs to be investigated after the inauguration for both the email scandal and the Foundation scandals; she and Soros have shown no patriotism or concern for this country in the slightest in taking this action and Trump needs not reciprocate with the slightest compassion by declining any further investigation of the Clinton/Soros gang’s dealings. Game on.
Now, why not you, Hillary? Isn’t it a threat to our Democracy if you are contesting it?
WAR is what.
Trump should demand recounts in New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada.
He has a clue. He doesn't waste ammo until there is a clear view of the target.
The last one said "RECOUNT CAMPAIGN AT RATE OF $160,000/HOUR". It's a bunch of crap.
But let’s do it anyway to drag things out and throw mud on the Trump Presidency. Scum.
Trump should call for a recount of Kalifornia. Because of all of the illegal immigrants voting there.
SELECTIVE RECOUNT is FRAUD
Entire country must be recounted. Due to VoterID ban, that is not possible. VoterID ban doomed the Democrats.
Yep. And then they continue to harass and threaten electors as they’ve already been doing.
It ain’t over yet.
Recount explains why Scalia was murdered by the Democrats.
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