RUSH: Another email: “How come you\u2019re not talking about this Army widow and her ongoing battle with Trump?” I\u2019ll tell you why. Because the story\u2019s over. It\u2019s another one of these things that the Drive-Bys are trying to keep alive in order to impugn and besmirch Trump, and I\u2019ll tell you whose fault this is — and this is another reason why I\u2019m not taking the bait. I\u2019m just not gonna delve into it. We talked about this Thursday and Friday. This congresswoman who is in the phone call — this cowboy sequined, cowboy-hat-wearing congresswoman — could have prevented all of this.<\/p>\n
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She\u2019s listening to the phone call that Trump makes to the widow. If she were acting responsibly —\u00a0 she\u2019s in the car with the widow of a hero military person killed in action — her sensitivity should have been aimed there. But that\u2019s not where she was thinking. She was thinking, “How can I maximize whatever happens on this phone call to help me and to hurt Trump, and to help my party and to hurt Trump\u2019s.” That\u2019s the perspective she had listening to the call.<\/p>\n
So she hears Trump, who had been given advice by General Kelly what to say, and he said it in his own way. He said everything that Kelly said to say — and, by the way, he said things that other people say. There\u2019s a lot of variations of saying, “Your husband died doing what he loved doing. This is what he signed up for.” There are a lot of variations to that. Everybody knew what Trump meant. But this woman, this congresswoman took it upon herself to politicize this.<\/p>\n
She could have said to the widow, if she… I don\u2019t think the congresswoman has the brains to do this, frankly, so I\u2019m probably talking about an impossibility. But had it been me in that car, had everything that happened happened and had it been me in that car with her, I would have said to the widow, “Okay. I don\u2019t think that the president was trying to insult you. I think the president was trying to tell you how much respect he had for you and your husband.<\/p>\n
“I think he was trying to convey what a hero he thinks your husband is. He may not have said it in ways that other people say things, you know, the old…” There\u2019s an argument going out there (that I don\u2019t want to join, by the way) that Trump has no empathy, that Trump doesn\u2019t really care. “Trump only cares about himself. He\u2019s only caring and thinking about his next tweet! He doesn\u2019t care about these soldiers.” I\u2019m not joining that fray because I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true. I think the exact opposite. I think Trump deeply admires these people.<\/p>\n
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All that congresswoman would have had to say… She could have comforted that widow, but she chose not to. She chose to politicize it. They chose to use this as an opportunity to once again do her party\u2019s bidding and go out and skewer Trump — and she did it at the expense of this widow\u2019s heart and feelings, and has dragged this widow into this now. The widow\u2019s on TV and in the media saying the same things the congresswoman said, just prolonging this and increasing the pain and prolonging the period of time of “closure,” as they say.<\/p>\n
So you\u2019ll forgive me for not getting to the back-and-forth on this because all of this, I\u2019m kind of like General Kelly in the sense that this repulses me, because this is sacred. He was exactly right. This is a sacred thing, to die for your country. These people who represent less than 1% of our population, and they\u2019re different from all of us. They join. They volunteer. They know what they are getting themselves into.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re offering to do it. They\u2019re volunteering to do it. It\u2019s no different than saying, “It\u2019s what he signed up for.” It may be an inelegant or a casual way of saying something, but nobody can convince me that Donald Trump is heartless. I know the man. He\u2019s not heartless, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to say here, and I don\u2019t even want to accept that premise, which is why I haven\u2019t led with this and continued to talk about it.<\/p>\n