Trump Alleges Popular Vote Fraud
President-elect Donald Trump is now claiming that he would have won the popular vote too, were it not for massive voter fraud.
Hillary Clinton leads in the popular vote by more than two million votes, according to the Cook Political Report.
According to reports, the campaign of Hillary Clinton is backing a Green Party effort to get a recount in several swing states, which prompted Trump to fire off a number of tweets Sunday.
"The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems," Trump tweeted, referencing the several million dollars raised by the Green Party to pay for the recount called for by Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Following a string of tweets about the election and Clinton, Trump tweeted: "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
Trump did not say what he was referring to in claiming the massive illegal vote.
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Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.