Twittering Trump Takes No Holiday, Tweets About Recount And Illegal Votes
Update 1:25 pm Donald Trump now says “millions” of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton, and he’d have won the popular vote if not for them. The president-elect’s latest trio of tweets follows this morning’s blast in which he called demands for a three-state recount “sad.”
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
Previous Jill Stein’s drive for an election recount in three states (Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania) prompted a morning twitter storm from President-elect Donald Trump today, with the GOP’s top man returning to verbose form after yesterday’s four-word “Fidel Castro is Dead!” tweet.
Granted, most of the tweets were Hillary Clinton quotes, with his one-word summation – “Sad” – arriving as a punch line.
The tweets came hours after Trump called Stein’s effort a “Green Party scam” to “fill up their coffers.” He seemed particularly irate that Hillary Clinton will send a lawyer to monitor the recount.
Trump, who famously declined during his campaign to pledge acceptance of election results, hit Twitter just before 7:30 a.m. ET on this last day of the Thanksgiving weekend. It went like this:
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
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