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Nov 25, 6:44 PM EST With recounts looming, Trump adds new administration picks
http://hosted.ap.org ^ | 11/25/2016 | STEVE PEOPLES and TODD RICHMOND

Posted on 11/25/2016 4:29:40 PM PST by heterosupremacist

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump pressed forward Friday with two more administration picks, as failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein took new steps to force recounts across key Midwestern battlegrounds that could complicate Trump's push for national unity.

Stein, who earned little more than 1 percent of the national vote, formally requested a Wisconsin recount Friday afternoon, vowing to do the same in the coming days in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Wisconsin officials confirmed Friday evening they would move forward with the first presidential recount in state history. There is no evidence of election tampering in the states where Trump scored razor-thin victories, but Green Party spokesman George Martin insisted "the American public needs to have it investigated to make sure our votes count."

"We're doing this to ensure the integrity of our system," he said.

Trump's team ignored questions about the looming recounts. Set to assume the presidency in 55 days, he was focused instead on the daunting task of building an administration from scratch.

Gathered with family at his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach estate for the holiday weekend, the incoming president made two senior-level staff appointments and scheduled meetings with several more prospective administration officials.

He tapped Fox News analyst Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland to serve as deputy national security adviser and campaign attorney Donald McGahn as White House counsel. In a statement, Trump cited McFarland's "tremendous experience and innate talent" and said McGhan "has a brilliant legal mind, excellent character and a deep understanding of constitutional law."

Having faced criticism about the inexperience of his initial picks, Trump finds in McFarland someone who previously worked under three presidents, although none since Ronald Reagan. McGhan, a veteran Republican election lawyer, served as Trump's attorney during the campaign.

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KEYWORDS: 2016recount; trumpcabinet; trumptransition; wi2016
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1 posted on 11/25/2016 4:29:40 PM PST by heterosupremacist
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To: heterosupremacist

How about a recount in California to make sure ONLY citizens’ votes are counted and watch Hildabeast lose the popular vote.


2 posted on 11/25/2016 4:31:42 PM PST by JMS
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To: heterosupremacist

Busted! Jill Stein’s Election Recount Is Being Paid For By a Bot!

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=50879

Soros could have thousands of bots or even botnets in the USA donating to Jill Stein’s website.

Stein had to let them in to pass the “Prove you’re not a robot” tests.So Soros , Stein, Hillary in on this “recount” in WI , PA ,MI, a scheme to flip all 3.

Don’t know all the details just a tiny bit. soros knows it all and this was plan 3 after his paid riots etc. Soros is funding most of this recount in WI


3 posted on 11/25/2016 4:31:51 PM PST by Democrat_media (bots are donating to Jill Stein's website for the recount. Soros behind big scheme)
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To: heterosupremacist

So now Jill Stein’s frivolous challenge is going to be part of every lead paragraph about the transition. Wisconsin needs to end this cynical publicity stunt now!


4 posted on 11/25/2016 4:32:09 PM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: heterosupremacist
How can you have ‘standing’ with one percent??? She is doing this because Hillary and Soros is paying her to do this, Bernie had ‘standing’ and he owns a new beach house, new car and money in his pocket...he sold out and so did Jill Stein...

Is this who you want to run our Country? I didn't work my butt off locally and nationally for Trump to have some crooked, low class, formaldehyde witch and a known Jew Killer to ruin my country!!!

Stand up and stop this crap!!!

5 posted on 11/25/2016 4:34:15 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Democrat_media

An election attorney will have to answer this question, but could the existence of bot payments on a massive scale be used to enjoin Jill Stein from spending these funds?


6 posted on 11/25/2016 4:35:30 PM PST by Truth29
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To: heterosupremacist

KT!!!!! Great pick


7 posted on 11/25/2016 4:36:20 PM PST by MattinNJ (I am optimistic about the USA fir the first time in a decade)
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To: heterosupremacist

How do I know that the recount is accurate?

What happens if they recount and it shows Trump lost.

What if they cheat the recount to get Hillary in?


8 posted on 11/25/2016 4:36:22 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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>> “What if they cheat the recount to get Hillary in?” <<

That is the sole purpose of the recount; do you not understand that?

The plan, obviously, is to insert fraudulent ballots, and to modify legitimate ballots.
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9 posted on 11/25/2016 4:40:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

BINGO!

They will “FIND MISSING VOTES’ because they were too stupid to cheat before the elections.


10 posted on 11/25/2016 4:42:01 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: Truth29

Soros could have made thousands of bots in a botnet all donating to Jill Stein’s site , not real people bots. Or it could be just one.

https://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&btnG=Search&q=botnet


11 posted on 11/25/2016 4:42:57 PM PST by Democrat_media (bots are donating to Jill Stein's website for the recount. Soros behind big scheme)
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To: max americana

They had two weeks to “create” these missing ballots

Now they will just magically appear and make the bitch, queen

This is planned in Michigan and PA as well


12 posted on 11/25/2016 4:45:34 PM PST by arl295
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To: Truth29

A “bot” is a type of malware that allows an attacker to take control over an affected computer. Also known as “Web robots”, bots are usually part of a network of infected machines, known as a “botnet”, which is typically made up of victim machines that stretch across the globe.


13 posted on 11/25/2016 4:46:19 PM PST by Democrat_media (bots are donating to Jill Stein's website for the recount. Soros behind big scheme)
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To: HarleyLady27

It’s not a court case.


14 posted on 11/25/2016 4:48:44 PM PST by xzins
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To: FreedomStar3028

Look at the Washington State Gov election 12 years ago for insight in recount shenanigans although the vote margin was razor edge close unlike this election. The Republican, Dino Rossi, won the election and the automated recounts (1st with ~250 votes & 2nd by less than 100). Election officers “found” uncounted ballots during the 3rd manual recount and Gregoire won by ~129 votes.


15 posted on 11/25/2016 4:57:48 PM PST by zek157
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To: xzins

A judge in WI will decide whether to allow a hand count or Machine recount only.


16 posted on 11/25/2016 4:59:22 PM PST by georgiarat (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize - Volttaire)
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So your hopes rest on a judge in a state that’s been ddmocrat for decades?


17 posted on 11/25/2016 5:04:11 PM PST by xzins
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To: zek157

Stuart Smalley pulled the same scam in Minnesota.


18 posted on 11/25/2016 5:04:44 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: xzins

But it can probably be taken to court.


19 posted on 11/25/2016 5:05:19 PM PST by aquila48
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Sounds like a horror movie of sorts, The Phantom Votes of Lake Winnebago have washed up on the shores of Oshkosh to a strange bird chorus of Soros-did-it Soros-did-it and a rising wind in the pines that cries “Hill-a-reeee.”

All is resolved when the evil conspirators are pinned beneath giant wheels of cheese and nibbled on by rats, not Democ-rats, just plain old rats.


20 posted on 11/25/2016 5:06:57 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Listen for my radio call-in program on channel A in your brain, yes caller ... I'm listening)
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