Hillary Clinton was clearly devastated by her defeat on November 8. She was in such a state of shock that she was unable to speak to her supporters that night. She had devoted her entire life to achieving one goal—the presidency of the United States. She had suffered countless humiliations from her husband’s womanizing and predatory sexual practices. She had obsequiously served Barack Obama, the man who had dashed her hopes of becoming president in 2008, when a Democratic victory was a sure thing. Now Donald Trump, a man she despised, had kept her from getting the one thing in life for which she still had a burning desire. She could not allow his election to stand.

Step 3: Have Experts Question the Validity of the Election: If a group of supposedly disinterested political scientists question the results of the election because the voting patterns are different than those in prior elections, and a group of computer scientists opine that the voting machines may have been hacked, you now have grounds to ask for a recount. This works so well because throughout the campaign you have been promoting the false narrative that the Russians were trying to influence the election, and Putin wanted Trump to win. A compliant, complicit, and lazy media simply repeated your falsehoods—why do any investigative reporting to determine the truth of assertions that support the candidate of your choice. Now you know, or should know that the Russians actually wanted you to win because having hacked your private server they have enough information about the Clinton Foundation/ State Department nexus to make you very uncomfortable about challenging Russian muscle-flexing.

Step 4: Change the Votes: Simultaneously with Steps 2 and 3, have Democratic Party operatives in Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia inflate your total vote. This is actually not as hard as it sounds because since the vote hasn’t been challenged, no one from the Republican side is looking to see if dead voters are rising from their graves and quietly casting their ballots for you in the middle of the night.

Step 5: Call for a Recount: Don’t do that yourself. Have a disinterested third party candidate do it, and then support her efforts to insure the integrity of the election process. The best time to do this is the week of Thanksgiving since everyone will be watching football and eating turkey, not thinking about the results of an election that took place over two weeks ago. Meanwhile make sure the media portrays this as no big deal—it isn’t going to change the election results. We want the Trump camp to continue to focus on the transition and pay no attention to this, believing mistakenly that it’s simply a ploy by a third party candidate to raise money.