{"id":15920,"date":"2016-11-28T09:38:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=15920"},"modified":"2016-11-28T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:38:59","slug":"trump-sounds-off-twitter-clinton-joining-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/elections\/trump-sounds-off-twitter-clinton-joining-recount.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump sounds off on Twitter about Clinton joining in recount"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump sounds off on Twitter about Clinton joining in recount<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">President-elect Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm Sunday about plans by Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign to join in the election recount in Wisconsin initiated by Green Party candidate Jill Stein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">His sentiments were soon echoed by Kellyanne Conway, his senior adviser and former campaign manager, who went so far as to criticize the Clinton campaign for making the decision after Trump had been \u201cmagnanimous\u201d in backing off his promise to prosecute the former secretary of state \u2013 even though the two issues are unrelated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Trump had already begun sounding off against the recount efforts late Saturday, when he called them a \u201cscam\u201d by the Green Party to \u201cfill up their coffers.\u201d He also criticized the Democrats for joining the effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Trump resumed his criticism Sunday, saying that Clinton had conceded the election in her phone call to him before his victory speech Nov. 9 and that nothing would change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Trump then spent five tweets quoting parts of Clinton\u2019s responses at the third presidential debate, during which she blasted Trump for telling moderator Chris Wallace that he would \u201ckeep you in suspense\u201d rather than outright promise to accept the election results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">At the debate, Clinton had called Trump\u2019s answer \u201chorrifying\u201d and \u201ca direct threat to our democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hillary Clinton conceded the election when she called me just prior to the victory speech and after the results were in. Nothing will change<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/802849330176659456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">wait <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> I thought you said the election was rigged&#8230;you said it over and over..so surely you support a recount?!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hot 97 &amp; ESPN&#8217;s Own! (@Rosenbergradio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rosenbergradio\/status\/803072524024238082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/802861553905238017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">of position.&#8221; Then, separately she stated, &#8220;He said something truly horrifying &#8230; he refused to say that he would respect the results of &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/802864075822788608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">this election. That is a direct threat to our democracy.&#8221; She then said, &#8220;We have to accept the results and look to the future, Donald &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/802865382490968064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For the record, Trump\u2019s tweets capture the essence of Clinton\u2019s debate responses but do not quote the full exchange faithfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Trump capped it all off by quoting Clinton\u2019s concession speech and then his signature adjective: \u201cSo much time and money will be spent \u2013 same result! Sad\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On the Sunday political-show circuit, Conway also derided plans by Clinton\u2019s campaign to participate in an election recount effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Conway said Trump was not focused on prosecuting Clinton but wouldn\u2019t rule it out \u2013 which she said indicated that Trump was being \u201cincredibly gracious and magnanimous\u201d to Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Though the two issues are neither related nor causal, Conway tried to link Trump\u2019s latest public comments about not pursuing a prosecution of Clinton to the Clinton campaign\u2019s decision to join the recount effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBut this is how the president-elect feels at this moment about Hillary Clinton,\u201d Conway said. \u201cI would say, in response that, I guess her attitude toward that is to have her counsel, Mark Elias, go and join this ridiculously fantastical recount that Jill Stein is engaging in Wisconsin and perhaps elsewhere. So you\u2019ve got the President-elect Donald Trump being quite magnanimous to Hillary Clinton and you\u2019ve got her responding with joining into this recount.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Conway said that she was confident the recount would not change the election results in Wisconsin, where Stein received 33,000 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2016\/11\/27\/trump-derides-clinton-for-joining-in-recount\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/elections\/trump-sounds-off-twitter-clinton-joining-recount.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump sounds off on Twitter about Clinton joining in recount President-elect Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm Sunday about plans by Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign to join in the election recount in Wisconsin initiated by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. 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