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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: Kaslin

Bill Clinton would be well advised to leave Hillary to wallow in drunken self-pity, retire to his penthouse at his presidential library, and never set foot in Chappaqua or take her calls again.


81 posted on 12/01/2016 8:08:03 AM PST by Loyalist (Deplorably yours!)
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To: Magnum44

LOL! Also, some little kid might try to pet her and I hear she’s a biter.


82 posted on 12/01/2016 8:09:03 AM PST by Exeter
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To: Alberta's Child

I don’t believe he told her to concede. Obama wouldn’t have any say in it and Obama is an activist. I heard that the two campaigns made a deal over who won Wisconsin.


83 posted on 12/01/2016 8:10:20 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: rjsimmon
...encouraged her to ask for a recount as a way of lifting her spirits.

You've got to be kidding. Freak out the whole world as they wonder what the secret agenda is...cause millions of dollars and people's time to be wasted....and the secret agenda is to lift Hillary's spirits? If that's the real reason, these people are just drooling idiots!
84 posted on 12/01/2016 8:11:14 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Nothing doing. The sooner she leaves this mortal coil, the better.


85 posted on 12/01/2016 8:11:28 AM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: TakebackGOP

And the statement put out that the election was fair. But we know he is two faced.


86 posted on 12/01/2016 8:11:46 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: jonno

Bubba listened to Dick Morris and signed welfare reform. Probably the only good thing he ever did.


87 posted on 12/01/2016 8:13:43 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: bkopto

I am sure that Lanny Davis will explain to us that her tears are not for Herself but for the country, which lost so much when she was defeated.


88 posted on 12/01/2016 8:13:46 AM PST by djpg
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To: IWontSubmit
height="230" width="450">

Are those body measurements in inches or centimers?
89 posted on 12/01/2016 8:14:29 AM PST by Stayfree (IT IS TIME TO START MAKING LAWS THAT LIBERALISM IS ILLEGAL!)
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To: going hot

Yep, using that geometric logic. . .


90 posted on 12/01/2016 8:14:31 AM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Kaslin
“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.

So the first black president, the most incompetent and divisive president in history, thinks that spending tens of millions$ of taxpayer dollars to "lift the spirits" of the most criminal, almost first president with a vagina in US history?

Got it.

I wonder which Federal Prison is the most appropriate for The First Black Kenyan muslim moron and his gang, AND Hillary and her bigger criminal "Tax Free" charitable foundation?

91 posted on 12/01/2016 8:15:34 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: Kaslin

“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.’”

Sounds about right to me. No change from the past. Sick in the body...sick in the mind.


92 posted on 12/01/2016 8:19:22 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: IWontSubmit

Width 450!!! 450 what?


93 posted on 12/01/2016 8:20:01 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: scottinoc

Liquor before beer never fear. Beer before liquor never sicker.


94 posted on 12/01/2016 8:20:04 AM PST by GoldwaterCountry (Viva Reagan Revolucion!)
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To: GoldenPup
Chelsea ‘didn’t work hard enough,’

Dump on your kid. Sickening.


95 posted on 12/01/2016 8:20:50 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: onona

If she dies before a trial, all the other ‘swamp critters’ in Congress will blame her and walk scot-free. If she remains alive during trial, it is harder for the other creatures to blame her, as she also has dirt on them. If she dies, the ‘swamp’ won’t be fully drained. If she goes to trial, chances are that the ‘swamp’ gets drained more fully.


96 posted on 12/01/2016 8:21:24 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Alberta's Child
This whole thing with Stein’s bizarre challenge to the results in those three states came was announced to the public much later.

I'm sure that the 'whole thing' was actually in progress way before the night of the election. After all, do you think Stein had to wait until all the votes were in to see that she wasn't going to win (assuming that is the premise for her wanting a recount)?

97 posted on 12/01/2016 8:21:30 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Pretty sad that none of these people seems to have ANY semblance of a LIFE outside of politics.

HEY!

Thats's where the big money is used to be!

98 posted on 12/01/2016 8:22:38 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: alternatives?

And the fuzzy lens photos they were all using.


99 posted on 12/01/2016 8:23:52 AM PST by sheana
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To: Red Badger

“I bet he knew she was going to lose even before she ran, but kept his mouth shut................”

Yup...I never saw the amount of people willing to go to his rallies for the sole purpose of embarrassing him in front of the cameras. It had to have been a complete mind blower to a man who thought he could talk his way out of anything.

And when he watched the tape afterward, he had to see how old and uninfluential he had become.


100 posted on 12/01/2016 8:24:11 AM PST by MaxistheBest
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