It’s difficult to quantify how upset progressive America was in the wake of Donald Trump’s winning the presidential election, but one reliable measure of that anguish is $7.3 million. That’s how much money 161,000 Americans donated to the Green party presidential candidate after she promised to spearhead a recount effort in swing states that would ostensibly prove Donald Trump had not, in fact, won the election.
Nearly two years later, people want to know what Jill Stein did with all that money. The Daily Beast reports that well over $6 million has been spent, and while significant sums went toward recall efforts, it’s unclear whether much of what was spent on salaries and other expenditures had anything to do with the recount. And in violation of the law, Stein hasn’t filed an FEC report on the funds since September of last year.
