Donald Trump, whose campaign wants recounts in Wisconsin following his election defeat, once derided the same demands from Democrats as attempts to “fill up their coffers”. “The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralised Dems,” the then president-elect wrote on Twitter in 2016. Four years on, his campaign is due to request a recount in Wisconsin within days, and was reported to have taken donations to do so, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.