Imagine this

[doc03]

Donald Trump gets over 2.8 million more votes than Hillary Clinton but Hillary Clinton wins the Electoral Vote.
Imagine the uproar, Donald Trump said he would not accept the results if he lost, the system is rigged. Imagine
the thousands of people that would be in Washington protesting, the calls for a do-over, the threats to the Electors,
the demands not to certify the EC vote. Now imagine if it was discovered that under Putin's order Russia influenced
the election by hacking into the RNC and releasing e-mails embarrassing to Donald Trump. Then we find out the Russians
planted false news stories about Trump running a child sex ring and other things. Imagine the Republicans not finding one Senator
that would even challenge the certification of Hillary Clinton as President. I do believe we have entered the Twilight Zone.

[democratisphere]

1. Hell yeah! We are in the Twilight Zone.

Get me out o' here!

[marked50]

4. If you are listening

What would Omaha Steve say?

[Trust Buster]

2. The Rethuglicans would have declared Hillary "illegitimate" right out of the box. They would have

pointed to the above facts as justification for not holding Supreme Court confirmation hearings. But, pointing out that Rethuglicans are hypocritical ass hats isn't exactly breaking news.

[Horse with no Name]

3. trump knew the election was rigged

if he ended up losing, it would have been investigated and there would have been evidence of rigging (because he knew it was rigged). At that point, there would have been outrage across the country and I have no doubt we would have had a "re-do".
Since he won, he fought tooth and nail to keep it from being recounted (because he knew it was rigged).

He really got the best of both worlds here.