Hillary Clinton clearly wasn’t prepared to lose Tuesday’s election.
Most political “experts” expected the election would be called shortly after the polls closed on the west coast. They said that Clinton was going to win and it wasn’t going to be particularly close. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
It ended up being a late night. Midnight came and went on the east coast with neither candidate declared the winner. But while neither candidate had yet reached 270 electoral votes, Donald Trump was almost assuredly going to win. At 2:31 ET, the Associated Press was the first major news network to make it official.
Moments after the call was made, the media turned their attention toward Clinton HQ. Instead of a concession, John Podesta dressed the crowd, saying that they’re hear from the campaign the following morning.
Now we may know why. Because Hillary Clinton wasn’t taking it well.
Read about her response on the next page:
The American people of all races, who love this country made their voices heard.
She cried that is pathetic she is responsible for the death of a a lot of innocent people who didn’t deserve it. I can’t believe anything else than the the fact she believes she is innocent.
Hmm …
she will be crying a lot more when she gets to hell.
TRUMP “FILLS THE SWAMP” WITH MORE LOBBISTS!!
In the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, he pledged to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. by, among other things, introducing tough new restrictions on lobbying.
“I am proposing a package of ethics reforms to make our government honest once again,” Trump said during the October 17 appearance in Green Bay, Wisconsin where he first used the “drain the swamp” line.
It appears Trump is already backtracking on that pledge. Politico reports that “lobbyists are all over” Trump’s transition team. Those lobbyists include Cindy Hayden of tobacco company Altria; Michael Torrey, owner of a lobbying firm representing the American Beverage Association; Steve Hart, chairman of the Williams & Jensen firm; and Michael McKenna, who lobbies on behalf of Dow Chemical.
Trump’s reliance on insiders goes beyond lobbyists. His financial advisory team is full of veteran Wall Streeters such as former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin, the Wall Street Journal reports. Both Mnuchin and former JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon are reportedly in the mix to be Trump’s Treasury Secretary. “I don’t want special interests” Trump railed against “special interests” and lobbyists throughout his campaign. In the summer of 2015, he told Face the Nation’s John Dickerson, “I don’t want lobbyists, I don’t want special interests.”
“I don’t want any strings attached,” Trump said. “I turned down $5 million last week from a very important lobbyist, because there are total strings attached to a thing like that.”
During a major policy speech in June, Trump pledged that “if I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.” And last month, spokeswoman Hope Hicks bragged to the Wall Street Journal about how registered lobbyists weren’t raising money for Trump.
“We have specifically not recruited lobbyists to raise money, as Mr. Trump has always said he would not be beholden to special interests that control Washington, D.C., and our failed politicians,” said Hicks. “This is a movement about the people, and it will continue to be if he is elected president.”
Trump’s affiliation with lobbyists, Wall Street insiders, and well-connected D.C. veterans draws into question whether Trump will follow through on Hicks’ pledge. But in a New York Times report, former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS)— now owner of a lobbying firm whose clients have included the Kremlin—offers an interpretation of how Trump’s “drain th swamp” campaign message is consistent with what he’s up to now.
“Trump has pledged to change things in Washington—about draining the swamp,” said Lott, who has been working for Trump in Florida. “He is going to need some people to help guide him through the swamp—how do you get in and how you get out? We are prepared to help do that.”
And we blame Comey for not doing his job properly in the first place. Poor guy is lose lose situation.
I guess she should have registered a few more million dead people and paid off a few hundred thousand more for the votes
She paid the media to do that….Cheaters never prosper
She makes a bad statesman by virtue of this news and not speaking to her supporters immediately.
Her crying only proves one thing…she expected to win by virtue of her understanding that all the cheating was a done deal. I believe the crying is a reality of her anger, outrage and shock. You’d never know because she’d never admit it.
A true competitor who competes without encumbrances upon losing would accept the verdict outcome, go out to the podium with her immediate family by her side and with chin up, take it like a true strong leader and cherish the last moments with her supporters. A few tears would have been fine too. I believe she will regret she did not do this.
BUT NOOOOOO! She sends a gangly rake of a man with flailing arms and a tight face to do her bidding for her! PODESTA…what a sycophant! Democrats just don’t know how to end well.
Her own words and her own actions are what’s to blame nothing else nothing more.