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The Real Reason Hillary Asked for a Recount
Townhall.com ^ | December 1, 2016 | Ed Klein

Posted on 12/01/2016 7:41:15 AM PST by Kaslin

Why did Hillary Clinton join Jill Stein, the Green Party’s oddball presidential nominee, in asking for a recount of the votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania when everyone knows that such a recount won’t change the outcome of the 2016 election?

Part of the answer is that people close to Hillary—Huma Abedin, Chelsea Clinton, and Sidney Blumenthal—encouraged her to ask for a recount as a way of lifting her spirits.

“She is weepy, looks ten years older and is very whiny,” said one of Hillary’s closest friends. “She has been drinking wine pretty heavily, much more than usual. She mopes around all day, swimming in a sea of recriminations and complaining that her campaign managers were ‘incompetent,’ Bill and Chelsea ‘didn’t work hard enough,’ FBI Director Comey was ‘in league with Trump.’”

In addition, President Obama convinced Hillary that it was in the best interest of the Democratic Party if the Clinton legal team got involved with the recount and didn’t leave it to Jill Stein.

“The president felt that the progressives were acting stunned and helpless and had to rise out of their stupor and show that they weren’t going to take their defeat lying down,” said the source. “Contesting the results of the election was the best and fastest way to stir the morale and fighting spirit of the demoralized party.

“Obama felt that a recount would plant a seed with the base that the election was somehow dishonest,” the source continued. “He wanted to raise serious questions about the legitimacy of the Trump presidency.”

And what did Bill Clinton—the man Charlie Rose called “the best political animal that’s ever been in American politics”—think of all this?

Said a close Clinton adviser: “Bill thinks the recount is going to backfire as a strategy because there are probably no more than a handful of questionable ballots and they could actually wind up adding to Trump’s numbers and validate rather than invalidate his election.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; drunkhillary; election; hillary; hillarylost; hillaryrecount; hillaryrottenclinton; recount; soreloser; stein
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To: Obadiah

Well he was right for once,it was dishonest how they tried to steal the election.


101 posted on 12/01/2016 8:25:15 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Night Hides Not
A couple weeks ago, I taught him a German word for a higher quality of German Riesling: hochgewachs. Last Sunday, during a visit to our local winery, he made good use of the term. As he was pouring Sprite into a plastic cup, he said "Opa, here's my hochgewachs!"

Hochgewächs. (Pronounced HOCH-geVEX [with a long "o"].)

"High on the vine."

And I'd like my Umlaut back when you're finished with it, please.

Regards,

102 posted on 12/01/2016 8:27:32 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Red Badger

Wild Bill knows that their fraudulent votes will be found by our observers.


103 posted on 12/01/2016 8:28:14 AM PST by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: jonno
I’ll probably get flamed for saying this, but if it wasn’t for Hillary’s antics & Bill’s philandering & abuse of women (ok, and his bad deal with North Korea), he wasn’t a horrible president [...]

You are absolutely right!

And if it hadn't been for the Holocaust and invading Poland...

Regards,

104 posted on 12/01/2016 8:30:13 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Kaslin

Thank God the adult won.


105 posted on 12/01/2016 8:30:17 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Kaslin

It warms me to know that Hillary is suffering like this. She deserves every last bit of what is coming her way.


106 posted on 12/01/2016 8:30:40 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Boogieman

A funeral dirge for sure.


107 posted on 12/01/2016 8:30:46 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe Huma makes her gin-soaked raisins, a la Teresa, to lift her spirits?

Where IS Huma these days?


108 posted on 12/01/2016 8:31:01 AM PST by polymuser (There's a big basket of deportables.)
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To: boomop1

It would be very funny indeed if they discovered that there was fraud and that it was for Hilliary, threw out the illegal votes and she wound up with an even smaller amount than she had before!.............


109 posted on 12/01/2016 8:32:38 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Bringbackthedraft
She was winning on day one, she could not be stopped, she will be America’s first woman President, destined to beat anyone that the Republicans could run against her.

All of that was absolutely 100% true...until Donald and Melania came down the escalator in June 2015! DJT was the ONLY Republican running who had a snowball's chance in hell of beating her and beat her he did!

110 posted on 12/01/2016 8:34:02 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Kaslin

The Clintons are thru. Both look like death.
Soros, Clintons, most of the democrat leaders will all be dead in a few years. The democrat party is more communist leaning then ever.


111 posted on 12/01/2016 8:34:13 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Night Hides Not
Hillary, go spend some time with your grandchildren, they'll get you out of your funk.

I've noticed that Hillary is rarely photographed with babies, including her own grandchildren.

I doubt this is a "privacy" concern for the children. More likely she is so uncomfortable with babies and toddlers that even professional photographers can't get a picture where both Hillary and the kids look relaxed and natural.

Actually I've long wondered how rabidly pro-abort women (like Hillary, Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer) can feel comfortable holding a newborn.

112 posted on 12/01/2016 8:34:44 AM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: pgkdan

Yup. She was counting in Jeb Bush being the nominee, and most of us staying home.


113 posted on 12/01/2016 8:36:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: joethedrummer

“This was planned since they first figured out she WASN’T going to get her ‘landslide’ win.”

Yup...and I’m not buying the “Bill Clinton warned them” bit...this is just BC covering his ass like he has always done, even if it means slamming some of his and hers closest advisors and friends. He is trying to keep the shine on himself .... remember, they have a large payroll to meet every month and they have to find a way to make donors believe they are still a power center.


114 posted on 12/01/2016 8:37:12 AM PST by MaxistheBest
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To: UCANSEE2
I wouldn't assume it was in progress before Election Day at all. I don't think anyone in the Clinton campaign expected them to lose all three of those states -- especially Wisconsin, where Clinton never even made a single campaign appearance after she was nominated.

They would have had more legal avenues to pursue challenges in these states if they had gotten started on it sooner.

115 posted on 12/01/2016 8:41:27 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: SandyInSeattle

Bill is the ONLY Clinton in the bunch. Then there’s s Rodham and a Hubbell.


116 posted on 12/01/2016 8:43:00 AM PST by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist inmy lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: joethedrummer
This was planned since they first figured out she WASN’T going to get her ‘landslide’ win.

Doubt it
They had everything prepared for a bug win up to election eve

Otherwise she wouldn't have run away from her supporters when the truth hit
117 posted on 12/01/2016 8:43:02 AM PST by uncbob
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To: going hot

Who has the key to the strawberry locker? LOL


118 posted on 12/01/2016 8:43:12 AM PST by rhoda_penmark
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To: TakebackGOP

It’s OK if you don’t believe that Obama told Clinton to concede, but in that case you might as well take all of these reports and dismiss them out of hand. I think this Ed Klein has been the source of most of these reports from inside the Clinton team.


119 posted on 12/01/2016 8:43:23 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
We need to pray that she is kept relatively healthy until the trial.

WTF?? WHY?

The alternative sounds much preferable to me.

It's permanent, and we can finally enjoy leaving the freaking Clinton/Obungo/Soros nightmare!

120 posted on 12/01/2016 8:44:19 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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