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RUSH: Now, moving on to Mrs. Clinton.  Last night, The Lead with Jake Tapper.  He had an exclusive interview with Mrs. Clinton (not too many people get those), and he said, “Donald Trump today said that he raised at least $5.6 million for veterans charities.  He provided an accounting of those donations.  Your campaign says, ‘Nobody should be fooled by Trump\u2019s stunt.\u2019 What do you mean by that, Mrs. Clinton?”<\/p>\n

HILLARY:  Well, I think the problem here is the difference between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump does.  He\u2019s bragged for months about raising $6 million for veterans and donating a million dollars himself.  But it took a reporter to shame him into it making his contribution and getting the money to veterans.  So I… Look, I\u2019m glad he finally did, but I don\u2019t know that he should get much credit for that.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right.  Okay, so that\u2019s Mrs. Clinton.  Now, usually it would stop there.  But Jake Tapper said, “Well, he said that you haven\u2019t given anything to veterans groups.  What\u2019s your response to that, Mrs. Clinton?  What have you given to veterans charities — and, more broadly, what have you done for veterans?”<\/line><\/p>\n

HILLARY:  Well, I, of course, have given money to veterans charities.  I\u2019ve also worked starting as first lady to deal with some of the problems veterans have.  I worked as a senator on the Armed Services Committee on veterans things — for example, increasing death benefits for families of the fallen from just $12,000 to $100,000.  So much of the work that I\u2019ve done has meant tens of millions of dollars in increased benefits!<\/p>\n

RUSH:  This just makes me want to throw up.  You know what she\u2019s saying?  She said, “Well, I\u2019ve made sure that we in government have used a lot of other people\u2019s money and directed it to the veterans.  I have increased veterans\u2019 benefits.  I\u2019ve seen to it that other people\u2019s money has been increased from $12,000 to $100,000.  So much of the work I\u2019ve done has meant tens of millions of dollars.  Not my own, of course, \u2019cause I don\u2019t give anybody money.  I don\u2019t donate to charity. <\/p>\n

“But I make sure that the force of law separates other people from their money so that it goes to places so that I don\u2019t have to give it.”  That\u2019s what her answer meant.  She may not like my translation, but that\u2019s exactly what it is.  “Of course I\u2019ve given money to veterans charities.  I\u2019ve worked starting as first lady to deal with some of the problems.  I worked as a senator on the Armed Services Committee.  I have increased death benefits for families.” <\/p>\n

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Other people\u2019s money. <\/p>\n

So they looked into it and they found that she\u2019s donated 70 grand, $70,000.  But, of course, as a good liberal, Mrs. Clinton, “Ah, that\u2019s chump change! I have arranged for much more than that.  I have used the force of law to increase the amount of the federal budget that comes from other people\u2019s taxes.”  What a cheap cop-out.  That kind of stuff just… It sickens me and angers me at the same time. <\/p>\n

Claiming credit for having the courage to pass new legislation that directs the federal government to send even more, and then wanting credit for having a big heart and charitable intentions? One more from Jacob Tapper, Jake Tapper here on CNN, his Lead with Jake Tapper show.  He said in an editorial today, “USA Today called your private email server ‘a threat to national security, one that you repeatedly ignored despite multiple warnings,\u2019 and they added that you were now going to have to convince voters that you can put the national security of the US above your own short term self-interest.<\/p>\n

“Do you see this as a challenge that you have to face to convince voters that you\u2019ll put national security ahead of your own interests?”  I want you to listen to this, because basically what Jake Tapper\u2019s asking her — and you don\u2019t hear this. You don\u2019t see this much.  That\u2019s why this interview stands out.  Anybody else doing this interview would have stopped after her first answer.  Nobody else, that I can think of, would have gone in and asked her what she\u2019s done for vets.  But she\u2019s basically being asked to answer a question on her honesty here.  And listen to the stumbling and the stuttering as she seeks and searches in vain to answer.<\/p>\n