President-elect Donald Trump continued to criticize Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s latest vote recount effort on Sunday.
“So much time and money will be spent – same result!” said Trump on Sunday at the end of a string of tweets arguing against the recount. “Sad,” he added.
The president-elect is slamming the Green Party’s attempt, now being supported by Hillary Clinton’s campaign team, to recount the vote in three states.
Trump called the recount effort a “scam” in a tweet he wrote on Saturday, saying the Green Party is filling up its coffers “by asking for impossible recounts” that “is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems.”
Stein has raised nearly $6 million in order to recount the vote in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — all states where Clinton narrowly lost to Trump.
On Saturday, Clinton shared an article on Twitter written by her campaign’s lawyer Mark E. Elias — in which he explained that Clinton’s team plans to participate in the recount now that the process has been initiated in Wisconsin in order to ensure a “fair” process.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/802529071020339200
As of now, Clinton won the popular vote by roughly two million votes.
“It is important to point out that with the help of millions of voters across the country, we won 306 electoral votes on Election Day– the most of any Republican since 1988– and we carried nine of 13 battleground states, 30 of 50 states, and more than 2,600 counties nationwide – the most since President Ronald Reagan in 1984,” Trump also said in a statement.
Here is Trump’s string of Twitter messages that he shared on Saturday into Sunday regarding recount efforts:
The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
The Democrats, when they incorrectly thought they were going to win, asked that the election night tabulation be accepted. Not so anymore!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
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