Trump's not accepting election result said to be payback

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President Donald Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy of his own election in 2016, especially with the Russia investigation, a source familiar with the President's thinking told CNN on Thursday.

The President's refusal to concede, as CNN has previously reported, stems in part from his perceived grievance that Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama undermined his own presidency by saying Russia interfered in the 2016 election and could have impacted the outcome, people around him have said.

Trump continues to hold a grudge against those who he claims undercut his election by pointing to Russian interference efforts, and he has suggested it is fair game to not recognize Joe Biden as the President-elect, even though Clinton conceded on election night in 2016 and the Trump transition was able to begin immediately.

Trump has heard from a multitude of friends and business associates who have been urging him to at least let the transition begin, even if he doesn't want to concede, another source who is also familiar with the President's thinking told CNN. His answer: No. You're wrong. "Absolutely wrong," according to one source.

When Trump has been told to get Rudy Giuliani and other members of his legal team off the case, the President has disagreed. He wants to continue the fight, and people close to the President have even expressed concern that he is buying into Giuliani's false claims that his legal efforts can change the election's outcome.

The friends and associates, this source said, have been imploring the President to think about the future. They have told him he is making it harder on himself, that he'll have a hard time getting people to stay at his hotels, or even borrowing money if he continues this behavior. He will hurt his brand, they have told him. The President thinks that's wrong.
His response is that he had more than 70 million people voting for him, which he thinks conveys ultimate power and authority -- and should convey the White House as well.

"The most important thing we need to keep in mind is that Donald is in a unique position for him," said Mary Trump, the President's niece who wrote a damning account of his family life. "He's never in his life been in a situation that he can't get out of either through using somebody else's money, using connections, using power. And not only is he in a unique position, he's in a position of being a loser, which in my family, certainly, as far as my grandfather was concerned, was the worst possible thing you could be."

The President, this source said, "doesn't see" how bad the aftermath of all of this could be for the country, and for democracy itself. As usual, he's focused on himself -- not Covid-19, nor the transition.

I wouldn't put it past him.

However the article seems yet another in a slew of unsubstantiatable rumors that pass for journalism these days.

Others including myself have pointed out the similarities between the two elections and saying things like 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander' and 'turnabout is fair play'.

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Someone should be tallying what Trump's costing taxpayers here.

Over a Billion dollars!
Sorry, that was the cost of the left-wing riots demonstrations.

Over a Billion dollars!
Sorry, that was the cost of the left-wing riots demonstrations.

What was the cost of years of the Mueller investigation and years of house and senate hearings?

I have a feeling it's a bigger number than a couple of weeks of recounting votes. Plus from what I read the campaign is covering the cost of legal action being taken. I don't see how taxpayers could be footing the bill for that in the first place.

Between May 17, 2017 — the day Mueller was appointed Special Counsel — through Sept. 30, 2018, his office spent $12,287,852. This includes $7.3 million on salaries and benefits, $1.3 million on travel and transportation, and $2.2 million on rent and utilities. In the most recent of the three expense reports filed, the Special Counsel’s office also says it spent $15,618 on printing and copying needs.

Lol no.



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