If you thought winning the election would stop Donald Trump complaining, you were wrong

For all Donald Trump’s faults, and there are many, some of us were naive enough to think that winning the US Presidential election would at least be enough for him to stop complaining about a rigged US Presidential election.

However, it seems logic isn’t always a friend of the US President-elect.

Before the election, Trump was crying fix. Which you might think is rather odd.

This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2016

The above tweet, and the three that follow, were all sent within the space of 48 hours.

Yup, you read that right.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2016

Election is being rigged by the media, in a coordinated effort with the Clinton campaign, by putting stories that never happened into news!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016

The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary – but also at many polling places – SAD

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016

The good news for Trump is that, if the election was ‘rigged’ as he says, it wasn’t enough to help Hillary Clinton see off his challenge.

The Republican candidate won the electoral vote, though an official request for a recount has followed (even if there are no suggestions of foul play).

So, has Trump – who, let’s remember, *won* the electoral vote (if not the popular vote) decided to bite his tongue and ride it all out? We’ll let you take a guess.

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

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

And here’s a screenshot, just in case Trump deletes the original.

It is a bizarre accusation to be making, not least because the first arrest for electoral fraud involved a Trump supporter.

There were some reasonably sensible responses thrown the way of the President-elect.

This is a wild accusation. Where is evidence to back it up?

— David Fishman (@davidpkfishman) November 27, 2016

While others were more keen to just point out the obvious.

https://twitter.com/NevAriJason/status/802975765260181504

I really think you should have better things to do.

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) November 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/kevinmccauley/status/802975883942301696

This article originally appeared on JOE.co.uk. 

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