Then: “He became the first person, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election. Now, that is a direct threat to our democracy,”
Now: "Clinton lamented how “we don’t have a method for contesting” the election in the United States and called for an independent commission to “get to the bottom of what happened.”
We don't need an independent commission. Trump got more electoral votes and won. End of story. Too bad, so sad. Time to accept it, Hilly.....
The difference being, she raises legitimate questions, while Trump was squawking about made up bullshit.
So not respecting the results after saying what she said is ok as long as she or the opposing party thinks she's justified.
What a wonderful example of the hyper partisan 'logic' that is destroying our country, not to mention an example of the hypocrisy of the political spin doctors and those that carry their water so willingly.
Trump won. There were many factors that fed into this but the election is long over at this point
She's not disreapecting the results, she's asking questions. That's a far cry from the embarrassing shit Trump said. Also, her questions are legitimate and should be asked.
I know that you really really really want these two things to be the same, but they just aren't.
She isn't?
her response to the interviewer asking "do you think it was a legitimate election" was “I think that there are lots of questions about its legitimacy,” and that's not questioning the legitimacy/disrespecting the results?
she is simply reiterating the "he's illegitimate" message the dems have been spinning out since Nov 8.
and, (more importantly actually), for either of these things (Rooshins! or these claims of voter suppression) to have any bearing on the actual 'legitimacy' of Trump's election we would have to have 2 things:
1. Proof that Trump or his campaign had direct involvement, maybe the RNC I guess could be stuffed in there, but if Trump had nothing to do with it, Trump had nothing to do with it.
2. Proof that either of these things actually impacted the ultimate outcome. anything other than direct causality of her loss fails to meet any standard of delegitimizing the result.
given that 2, above, is something that almost certainly can never be conclusively be proven, and dems know it, all they're doing is using this as a smokescreen to continue to interfere with Trump in any way they can. That's not a legitimate anything, unless you want to count business as usual as 'legitimate'