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The Real Reason Hillary Asked for a Recount
Townhall.com ^ | December 1, 2016 | Ed Klein

Posted on 12/01/2016 7:41:15 AM PST by Kaslin

Why did Hillary Clinton join Jill Stein, the Green Party’s oddball presidential nominee, in asking for a recount of the votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania when everyone knows that such a recount won’t change the outcome of the 2016 election?

Part of the answer is that people close to Hillary—Huma Abedin, Chelsea Clinton, and Sidney Blumenthal—encouraged her to ask for a recount as a way of lifting her spirits.

“She is weepy, looks ten years older and is very whiny,” said one of Hillary’s closest friends. “She has been drinking wine pretty heavily, much more than usual. She mopes around all day, swimming in a sea of recriminations and complaining that her campaign managers were ‘incompetent,’ Bill and Chelsea ‘didn’t work hard enough,’ FBI Director Comey was ‘in league with Trump.’”

In addition, President Obama convinced Hillary that it was in the best interest of the Democratic Party if the Clinton legal team got involved with the recount and didn’t leave it to Jill Stein.

“The president felt that the progressives were acting stunned and helpless and had to rise out of their stupor and show that they weren’t going to take their defeat lying down,” said the source. “Contesting the results of the election was the best and fastest way to stir the morale and fighting spirit of the demoralized party.

“Obama felt that a recount would plant a seed with the base that the election was somehow dishonest,” the source continued. “He wanted to raise serious questions about the legitimacy of the Trump presidency.”

And what did Bill Clinton—the man Charlie Rose called “the best political animal that’s ever been in American politics”—think of all this?

Said a close Clinton adviser: “Bill thinks the recount is going to backfire as a strategy because there are probably no more than a handful of questionable ballots and they could actually wind up adding to Trump’s numbers and validate rather than invalidate his election.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; drunkhillary; election; hillary; hillarylost; hillaryrecount; hillaryrottenclinton; recount; soreloser; stein
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To: bkopto
She wants to give the impression that she could still be a player in 2020, and that pay-to-play is still in the offing.

Guess there is no shortage of STOOOOOOPID people with lots of money on this planet.


61 posted on 12/01/2016 7:58:51 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

It’s not a recount that they want.
They want to get their hands on some of the voting machines and then make the claim that there is evidence they were hacked.
Then they find a sympathetic (liberal) judge to rule the states vote is invalid.
Then they take it to the SCOTUS which is 4:4 since Scalia is gone… what a coincidence!?
The SCOTUS hangs and the lower court ruling stands… the states votes are invalidated.


62 posted on 12/01/2016 7:59:03 AM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's new Press Secretary!)
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To: Kaslin
The Left, disbelieving in Christ, has no moral foundation, only therapy.

Life is anecdotal, personal, therapeutic. Good of the country? Hah! My good!
63 posted on 12/01/2016 7:59:20 AM PST by jobim
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To: Kaslin

I imagine the scene in Hillary’s hotel suite, with all of her campaign staff gathered there to tell her she lost, was similar to the “Hitler Finds Out” videos. Instead, it was Hillary sitting at the table, going ballistic on those in the room with her.


64 posted on 12/01/2016 7:59:27 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Eddie01

Back to the Future?


65 posted on 12/01/2016 7:59:49 AM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It all goes to demonstrate, yet agin, that there is no substance behind her raw ambition. She is a nothing, a marketing creation, primarily based on the selling of her vaginal attributes to the stupid, obtuse, sheeple voters.


66 posted on 12/01/2016 8:00:33 AM PST by bkopto
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To: jonno
Bill Clinton will go down in history as the most unprincipled and useless person ever to serve as President of the United States. Even his supporters knew he was about as reliable as a fart in the wind, and would do anything to sign any bill into law if he thought it would advance his career.

There are a lot of words you can use to describe someone like this. LEADER isn't one of them.

67 posted on 12/01/2016 8:00:37 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Kaslin

Hopefully, this purportedly whiny criminal suffers until her leaving of this world.


68 posted on 12/01/2016 8:01:39 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: TakebackGOP

The story I’ve heard is that Obama told Hillary to concede on the night of the election. This whole thing with Stein’s bizarre challenge to the results in those three states came much later.


69 posted on 12/01/2016 8:02:02 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Kaslin

“She is weepy, looks ten years older and is very whiny,”

So... What else is new Hillary?


70 posted on 12/01/2016 8:02:20 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Kaslin

The Hillabeast should really look into that person who was allowed to poison himself because he was an incurable alcoholic.

Really.

Please.


71 posted on 12/01/2016 8:03:04 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: bkopto

Vaginal attributes LOL. Yep they were left with pleading for enough votes to elect a woman president. But we Americans don’t go for this identity politics stuff.

Yes the liberals are big on identity politics but most Americans don’t think that way when they go vote.


72 posted on 12/01/2016 8:03:23 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: WayneS
She should switch to whiskey - it’s faster.

She appears to more of a Tequila girl....

73 posted on 12/01/2016 8:03:36 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: CptnObvious
And we also now know that the Green Party is in the tank for the Democrats.

User name checks out! =)

74 posted on 12/01/2016 8:04:06 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: jmaroneps37

When the investigations start up again she will get even worse.

OMG they will never go away.

Venting...


75 posted on 12/01/2016 8:04:48 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Alberta's Child

No argument here. But if I had to pick my poison, I’d take BC over BO - or Hillary, any day.

That’s all I’m saying...


76 posted on 12/01/2016 8:05:40 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Mercat

yes - first image that popped into my head when I thought of all the mid-east donors who she stiffed.


77 posted on 12/01/2016 8:06:10 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: mountn man

And she’s blaming everyone else down to her own daughter. What a leader! The buck doesn’t stop at her desk.


78 posted on 12/01/2016 8:06:22 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Buckeye McFrog

+1


79 posted on 12/01/2016 8:06:49 AM PST by Darth Mall
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Nothing says “Women are strong and able leaders” like being unable to face your supporters the night of the election, and being weepy and whiny afterward, and demanding a recount because it’s your turn on the swings now.


80 posted on 12/01/2016 8:07:27 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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