Why should he say anything about it before hand? No one knew the situation would resolve the way it did. Heck, everyone paying any attention at all thought he would lose big time, so there was no reason to talk about it.
So you're trying to ascribe your rationale to Trump, after the fact.
You do remember Hillary being upset that Trump wouldn't swear to automatically accept the results of the election. I think she said something about it 'threatening democracy' or some such. Then, when she grabbed the dirty end of the stick, it suddenly wasn't such a bad thing to not accept her defeat and the knowledge that,a based a candidate as he was, she was worse.IOW, Monday morning quarterbacking doesn't change the score of the game.
Exactly, and Trump claiming he would have won the popular vote if he campaigned that way is an example of retroactive revisionism.
So? It's still a self soothing exercise for Hillary partisans who cannot accept the reality that she was defeated by someone they cannot accept as being competent to tie his own shoes, much less able to prevent her from ascending to her birthright throne.