There is no amount of counting or recounting that will make Jill Stein, the radical extremist Green Party candidate, president. Not unless 50 million ballots with her name on it turn up in a dumpster somewhere. But Jill Stein has already raised more money for her phony recount scam than she did in her campaign to become president and raise Bin Laden from the dead.
As of Wednesday, Stein’s website indicated she had raised $6.7 million toward the recount effort.
This is effectively twice what Stein’s campaign raised during the entire 2016 campaign: through Oct. 19, the date of the final filing period of the 2016 cycle, Stein had brought in about $3.5 million.
She would need just $300,000 more for the recount effort to double that amount.
So this is hugely profitable. Aside from the dollar amounts, she's boosting her email contact list, which is very valuable, and transforming herself into a national figure despite her ugly views.
And if you follow the money...
“There’s limited guidance from the FEC on how these funds need to be spent,” Fischer said. “What the FEC has said very clearly is if the campaign has leftover funds in its recount account after the recount is done, they are allowed to refund those contributions to donors. They can also … go back to the donors and ask that the contributions be redesignated to their general election fund or to remain for future recounts.”
So at the end of this scam, Stein has to have a compelling pitch in place to redesignate the funds. It's not hard to predict what the pitch will be.