Donald Trump faults Hillary Clinton’s concession speech over votes recount
United States President-elect, Donald Trump has faulted Hillary Clinton’s concession speech, following her support of calls for votes recount being engineered by Green Party nominee, Jill Stein.
Hillary, who edged the billionaire businessman with about two million popular votes, has indicated her support of Stein’s campaign for a recount in three key states (Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania), after initially conceding defeat to her Republican counterpart.
Trump, who was declared winner in all three states, has blasted the campaign which has seen over six million dollars crowd-funding raised in hopes of securing a recount as a “scam.”
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“The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems,” he wrote on Twitter.
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
He condemned Hillary’s 360, quoting her initial reaction and statements during their campaign when he (Trump) had refused to declare if he would accept the election outcome if he lost.
“That is horrifying. That is not the way our democracy works; been around for 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections,” he quoted Hillary as saying in one of his tweets.
“We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on 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 of position.”
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
Trump also said Hillary had slammed him at a campaign rally for his refusal to say if he would accept the outcome of the election or not, quoting the Democrat as saying: “He said something truly horrifying … he refused to say that he would respect the results of this election.
“That is a direct threat to our democracy.”
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
Trump then ridiculed the popular votes Hillary garnered, saying most of them were accrued through several illegal voters. He expressed he’d have won “easily” if votes were solely based on popular votes.
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4–
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
states instead of the 15 states that I visited. I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California – so why isn’t the media reporting on this? Serious bias – big problem!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 28, 2016
A California senator, Barbara Boxer, had earlier filed legislation to rid the United States of its electoral college, the system that allowed Trump win the presidency despite Hillary’s over 2 million lead in the popular votes.
