I don't really think it's out of line to address the recount publicly, and twitter's the method he uses for that. Had he got in front of a camera and made a brief statement, it would have the same weight but probably wouldn't be seen by as many people. I'm not sure why people seem to be upset by the fact that he uses twitter at all. The content of the tweets wasn't crazy, by his standards.
I do think his response is wrong, though. The best thing he could say would be something like, "if people want to spend their money to gain greater faith in the process and the result of the election, that's entirely up to them, but it's very unlikely that this recount will change anything", rather than object to it being done at all. But it's Trump; he's not very smart and he's going to get defensive about everything.
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