Trump Assails Effort to Recount Votes; Aide Slams Romney

Donald Trump has accused Hillary Clinton of hypocrisy after the Democrat’s presidential campaign team said it would participate in an election recount in three states.

Jill Stein and the Green Party said Friday they raised more than $4 million in three days to support recount efforts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, three key battleground states where Trump narrowly defeated Clinton.

In his victory speech, Trump said: “Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country. Sad”, the President-elect went on to say, via Twitter.

Despite those objections, Wisconsin officials say the recount will begin by week’s end and that Ms. Stein and her Green Party will pick up the tab.

One person who seems to be unhappy about all of this, however is Donald Trump.

Stein, who started a fundraiser to pay for recount efforts, is seeking a recount in key battleground states, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI.

Mr Trump returned to NY on Sunday evening after spending Thanksgiving weekend at his West Palm Beach, Florida, estate amid increasing infighting over who should be chosen for the most important White House job.

While Trump’s 290 electoral votes did give him a landslide win in the Electoral College, he’s taken a massive beating in the popular vote.

In 2012, Trump called the US electoral-vote system a “disaster for democracy”. “This challenge is not about changing the election result, but about securing a process that ensures that every votes actually counts for the candidate that each voter meant to receive that vote”.

Conway also made clear that Trump said only that he wouldn’t rule out another possible email probe because new evidence could emerge and he wouldn’t want to undercut the authority of federal and congressional investigators.

Trump claims he lost popular vote because millions voted illegally.

It was not immediately clear how the Clinton campaign plans to take part in the recount.

David Cobb, Stein’s campaign manager says, “It is about securing confidence in our election system”.

On the Wednesday after the election tallies came in, Clinton, in a concession speech, had urged her supporters to “accept” the results.

“We do so fully aware that the number of votes separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of these states ” – Michigan, where the Republican leads by 10,704 votes with the result expected to be certified on Monday – “well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount”.

A senior administration official, meanwhile, said in a statement that the government didn’t observe any increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting the election on election day and believes the elections were free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective.

Trump beat Clinton in Wisconsin by fewer than 22,200 votes, less than 1 percent of votes cast. The recount campaign is being headed by the Green Party’s presidential candidate Jill Stein, EFE news reported.

“The Democrats, when they incorrectly thought they were going to win, asked that the election night tabulation be accepted”.