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May 31, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 31, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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No, no, no, no.
The people that protested against Trump outside Trump Tower, they were military people.
They were just bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign.
They were vets.
They were not makeup vets.
They were not pretending, but not actors in that sense.
It's just, had they not been bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign, they wouldn't have been there.
It's the only point.
The Clinton campaign saw the Washington Post story, said, aha.
And they astroturfed Trump Tower.
David Axarod technique.
They put a bunch of they put paid a bunch of people to show up and act like they were mad at Donald Trump when it would not have happened had the Clinton campaign not paid for it.
Guess Hillary is getting nervous.
She's pulled up stakes wherever she is and is on her way to California because it's so tight out there.
In the California Democrat primary, Governor Moonbeam Brown has endorsed Hillary, as though that'll make uh any difference.
I mean, the idea that she can't put Crazy Bernie away.
I mean, the thing is, she can't put Bernie out of her misery, is what's what's really happening here.
So we'll have to keep a sharp eye.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rushly and ball behind this.
The Golden EIP microphone, 800 282882, if you want to be on the program.
Okay, to Harambi, the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo.
400-pound wild animal, born in captivity, but gorillas are not domesticated.
Contrary to what the feminists think.
Don't most feminists who are married think they're married to gorillas anyway.
They're not, you can't test like dragons, folks.
You can't tame them.
You've seen Game of Thrones.
You can't tame a dragon.
These are not, these are not pets.
But we name them.
This one's name was Harambi.
And I assume we think that he knew his name.
And we assume that he probably liked his name.
So a four-year-old child happens to plunge into the alligator pen, or the uh the uh gorilla pen, the Cincinnati zoo, before anybody notices it.
And in order to save the life, the zoo people made the decision to kill the gorilla.
Now, I am totally aware of why so many people think that the zoo made the wrong decision.
I totally understand American pop culture today.
I understand our society.
I understand where it is.
Uh I understand that in our culture today, that gorilla, compared to any human being, is the essence of innocence, even a four-year-old child.
In fact, many on the left, don't doubt me on this, you're gonna think this is maybe funny or crazy, but I'm dead serious.
Many on the left compare that gorilla in the zoo with unfair imprisonment of human beings.
That zoo is the equivalent of a prison.
And of course, those kinds of people think that we have too many people in jail in this country, that they are in jail because they've been railroaded, not because they've committed any crimes.
And as so that that's the first thing.
It may not be something that they consciously voice, but it is in their subconscious the way they look at this.
I'm talking particularly about leftists.
The whole zoo thing is unfair.
The whole zoo thing is an example of human bigotry, racism, whatever else, one of the mean-spiritedness, extremism, humans are the cause of global warming.
The humans are the cause of climate change.
Humans are the cause of animal suffering.
Humans are the cause of everything going wrong on Earth.
By definition, these people cannot be familiar with Genesis.
And if they were, they would dis associate themselves from it.
They have absolutely no such training, foundation, or awareness of the primacy of humanity on planet Earth as created by God.
Such a Mindset does not exist with them.
It's the exact opposite.
Humanity is the problem.
Humanity is not the solution.
Humanity causes all of it.
So a young child falls in.
There are stages of video that are produced by people who were there.
And the first video always the one that makes the impression, looky, that gorilla was trying to save that boy.
Do you he was trying to pull his pants up even so he wasn't ashamed, nude in that in that moat.
This gorilla was trying to protect that boy.
That gorilla and that gorilla, he was a new playmate.
That gorilla don't forget.
America's most prominent exposure to gorillas is what Coco.
Coco is a female gorilla who picks NFL games every Friday.
Coco uses sign language.
Coco has become a human.
We humanize all animals, particularly those that we can go watch, maybe even pet, get close to.
And we tend to associate some of us do it.
Some people transfer their own traits to animals and think that there's no difference other than maybe intelligence or what have you.
But as I looked at it, all took me one thing to see.
That gorilla is 400 pounds.
And when that gorilla scooped that kid up and ran at breakneck speed through that moat, dragging the kid behind him.
The gorilla doesn't know from protecting the little boy's head from banging against the wall.
The gorilla doesn't know from drowning.
The gorilla doesn't know from anything, but most people don't want to assume that.
They want to assign protector status to the gorilla.
As you'll hear in an audio soundbite.
Nobody was going to get that boy out of that gorilla's hands.
Nobody was going to be able to walk in there and say, hey, Harambi!
Hey, bud!
Hey!
You know, we need to take that little toy you just got to just plunge.
We need to take it away from you.
Right.
It was not going to happen.
Harambi was not going to deliver the boy somewhere to a zookeeper to take it back to its mother.
What's happening I know he was holding the boy's hand.
Sat him up, I know.
I know how the pictures look.
He was his friend.
He was protecting him.
He was a new buddy down there.
Understand all that.
Harambi wasn't going to hurt him.
Harambi was loving and caring and so forth.
Probably a better parent than many humans are.
Probably treating that boy better than maybe his own family does.
You just never know.
You just never know, right?
That gorilla could have been teaching us all the lesson on how to deal with kids.
I mean, folks, look at social media, you'll see all kinds of explanations.
Social media has just become such a sewer that even Facebook, Google, and all the others are promising to clean it up every 24 hours.
Hate speech gone in 24 hours.
You want to bet certain hate speech is going to be applauded.
It's going to be strategically placed.
That against conservatives.
Media lies about conservatives and Republicans will be still featured prominently in trending, you name it.
But anyway, I just don't think there's any way that boy was going to get out of there alive short of what happened.
And I think the people that are being forgotten in all this are the zoo people that had to do it.
I think in all the agony that's out there today, the people that run that zoo that had to do this are probably feeling the worst of anybody.
Because that gorilla was part of their lives.
The gorilla had a uh a handler.
Uh somebody fed the gorilla.
The gorilla's born in captivity, so the gorilla had had a lot of uh contact with with people at this at this zoo, and to have to take the gorilla out to save the boy, it probably they're gonna be they're gonna be distressed over this for a long, long time.
The people that actually run that zoo and had to make the decision who ever had to pull the trigger.
But it it comes down to, you know, what do you Value here.
Should the boy lose his life because the mother was irresponsible, let him plunge in the first place.
The gorilla's life should take primacy because it's the villa the gorilla's home.
The gorilla wasn't doing anything to anybody.
The gorilla was minding its own business.
All of a sudden, this four-year-old kid falls in there.
It's the gorilla's fault, we got to kill the gorilla.
Depends on how you value human life versus all other life on the planet.
And even, you know, folks, it was so sad.
It even had a racial component.
Originally, when it was not known what race the child and the parents were, you should have seen some of the comments then.
And then it was Black Lives Matter getting involved in all this.
And then they found out, no, wait, can't go there, had to back off and go elsewhere.
The way people on the left look at things is this continually itself insufferable and insulting.
But I don't I mentioned earlier the two.
I think they were dolphin or porpoises that somehow strayed way north of their natural.
Was it New Jersey?
No, no.
There was ice.
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
This this is this is, I mean, way north.
We're talking Canada here.
This is.
And uh there were mammals.
They had to surface to be able to breathe.
And we were cutting holes in the ice for them to do so.
And we were trying to cut holes in the ice in a way that would steer them to safety if they followed the holes we were doing everything.
And I remember back then, just this is in the 90s sometime.
I remember taking calls from people on, why are we wasting all this money?
It's a couple of fish for crying out loud.
They got lost, big deal.
And I recall the incident of the same thing had happened to a blue whale or something that happened in Sacramento Delta.
The thing had gotten screwed up and had swum up from the San Francisco Bay all the way up to the Sacramento Delta area and was running out of salt water.
And they were all worried about what to do with it.
They were trying to figure out a way to turn it around and go back to where it should be.
And I understand the back with these two fish.
I remember defending the fish.
I remember on this program telling people look, you have to understand why so many people are concerned about this.
They've done nothing wrong.
They they maybe got lost to win a different way, but these animals, compared to all else going on, they're innocent.
They're struggling on their own.
They're trying to live.
It's not like they're a bunch of welfare recipients taking the day off out.
They are doing everything they can to survive.
So us helping them makes all the sense in the world to me.
But I'm telling you, folks, 20 years ago, when that happened, the vast majority of sentiment was not for those dolphin or porpoises, whatever they were.
It was people.
Why are we spending so much money?
The military helicopters.
We were spending a lot of money breaking the ice, drilling halls, trying to get them out of there.
And people thought it was a waste of money.
Hey, it happens.
It's nature.
You know, they went to the wrong place to pay the consequences.
No, no, I said people left understand their essence of innocence.
They're trying to save themselves, and we're trying to help them do that.
This situation, here you have a gorilla minding its own business in its own home, not bothering anybody.
It had never bothered anybody.
And then some mother looks the other way for a while and her kid plunges into the gorilla pen.
And while the gorilla is holding her baby and dragging the baby along and so forth, the mother, mommy's here, mommy's here.
And people say, Mommy's where?
Why isn't mommy down there trying to get the kid back?
Most mommies would be down there doing what they can instead of shouting, mommy's here, mommy's here.
Nobody was gonna get the kid back.
And you've heard they didn't want to use tranquilizer.
That would have just made the gorilla mad.
It would have taken a long time to go into effect, to take effect, and who knows what the gorilla would have done had he gotten mad, so it's an unfortunate circumstance that they didn't have any other choice.
If you wanted to save that child, that was the only way they were gonna do it.
And I know a lot of people want to believe that whoever Harambi's friends were on the zoo staff could have walked in there, you know, with a plate of food or what have you, or just with good vibes.
Hey, Harambi, how are you?
You know that thing you have that's not supposed to be here.
Hand him over.
Whatever they were gonna do to get the gorilla to hand over his toy.
There's not much here, but I want to illustrate.
We have uh who is this?
Where is this?
What did I do with this?
Oh, here it is.
Number 15, Ashley Byrne.
This was yesterday on CNN's newsroom in the morning, Carol Costello.
This is PETA.
People for the ethical treatment of animals, senior campaigner, Ashley Byrne questioned, do you agree that zoo officials had to kill a gorilla because they say they couldn't take a chance a gorilla would react badly if they shot him with a tranquilizer dart.
In many circumstances, gorillas have shown that they can be protective of children or small beings.
Frankly, the fact that this gorilla was in the Cincinnati Zoo in the first place.
That's the first place that the situation went wrong.
Because even under the best circumstances, captivity is never adequate for gorillas and other primates.
And in cases like this, we see that it's even deadly.
And this tragedy is exactly why Peter urges families to stay away from any facilities, news, circuses or otherwise, that just leave animals as a side show for humans to gawk at.
Animals is a side.
This woman obviously is not read Genesis, and even if she did, it wouldn't have any impact on her.
But human beings travel all over the world to gawk at animals, precisely because they're unusual, they're interesting, some are cute, some are deadly, some is.
There's no way human beings are going to not be interested in animals.
Gawking at them?
Out on safari?
Hunting them or what have you?
By the way, you know there's another factor in this, snurdly.
A lot of people think that all of us used to be apes.
Don't doubt me on this.
A lot of people think that all of us used to be gorillas.
And they're looking for the missing link out there.
The evolution crowd, they think we were originally apes.
I've always had if we were the original apes, then how come Harambi is still an ape, and how come he didn't become one of us?
Well, that's why they were looking for the missing link, Mr. Limboy.
Your question is absurd.
Here's one more from Ashley Byrne from PETA.
Uh you know, the gorilla's in danger.
He was 17 years old.
They've had him for quite a long time.
He was 17 years old, and reports say that he had a young baby of his own, who of course is now without a father.
So, you know, uh again, I think this shows us the tragic side of keeping animals in views for our entertainment, that it can go horribly wrong, and that does you failed Haram by taking the risk that something like this could happen.
So Harambi's child is now without a father.
Uh one of the many unfortunate uh aspects of this.
So another busted gorilla home at the Cincinnati Zoo.
And you know what happens to those.
If something had happened to that four-year-old boy in the gorilla pen, you know what the cat calls would be.
Why didn't you shoot the gorilla?
Why did you wait?
So the zoo people, they're not gonna win no matter what, but uh my guess is they feel worse than anybody about this.
The people have had to do it.
Here's Robert in Pine Knoll Shores, North Cor North Carolina.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi, Rush.
My my honor, uh sir to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
My uh point is I believe that uh Donald Trump is dominating the the news media because uh people see him as, and I believe he is a natural leader.
And I think people are gravitating at this point towards those who are natural leaders.
I I believe that Hillary Clinton is the antithesis uh of a natural leader.
Uh, and I think they see strength uh and uh uh and a way ahead with uh with Donald Trump.
I uh I spent 32 years in the Navy Rush, and I uh I can spot a natural leader a mile away.
I can also spot somebody who is not comfortable being Placed in a leadership position.
Roy, amen.
Can I re you are so right about that?
Yes, sir.
I've seen it drive people crazy.
I I have seen it literally give people inferiority complexes that they are natural leaders and they don't want any part of it, and people gravitate to them and they don't want that, and it it just it it it it confuses them.
And uh so yeah, you're right about that aspect of them.
I think you're right too that Hillary doesn't have a shred of it.
She's not capable.
She's she's a commander, she demands acquiescence and and she doesn't inspire anybody to want to take a step her direction.
Well, that's why the media doesn't want to cover her uh uh you know her news events, uh whatever they might be, because there's nothing there for people to uh to hang on to.
People don't gain confidence uh in listening to her.
Donald Trump, whatever you think of him, uh at least he's out there and confident in the leadership position that he and the voters at this point have put him in.
I want somebody in the White House who's going to be confident in being there, not somebody in the White House who is going to be nervous uh about being there, and I think that's a a very distinct difference.
I think it's a good point.
It's a good Trump is obviously not somebody who uh feels the need to with humility subordinate himself to others.
He's not uh he's not somebody who thinks that he has to downplay himself in order to be polite or whatever.
He's he likes who he is, he's proud of being who he is, and he likes being himself.
And if that makes somebody uh le I think in this day and age, that alone could do it in terms of defining a leader.
Okay, we have the Trump uh press conference sound bites, and I'm gonna get to them here in just a moment, but I want to take uh at least one more call right now, maybe two.
We go to Chicago, this is uh Danette, and I'm glad you called.
Hi.
Well, I love you, I love you, I love you.
But I have to say you really make me angry when you start making fun of animal lovers.
I don't make fun of animal lovers.
Okay, just now when you were talking about that gal from PETA.
You were making fun of what she was saying.
She's a liberal.
She is not an animal lover, she's a leftist who is interested in the advancement of the liberal agenda by by her her her attitude toward humanity and its insignificance and its cruelty and so forth.
Believe me, PETA is a left-wing liberal organization using animal rights just like feminism is a bunch of liberals using women's issues to advance the leftist agenda.
Okay, but Rush, I am not a liberal by any means.
I'm a big Trump fan, and I'm a big animal lover.
I've got my own power.
So am I. I'm the biggest animal lover you ever met.
Okay, but okay, this gorilla got killed because of why?
Human error.
No matter how you look at it, human error.
I don't humanize animals.
Um, but you know what?
Someone's got to stick up for them, and someone does have to give them rights.
I just did.
I I'm sorry, I just did.
I pointed out the gorilla was bothering nobody.
The gorilla was doing what gorillas do is minding its own business.
It was in its home, and all of a sudden, a human four-year-old drops in there.
Absolutely.
And okay, now what's going to be the question?
The zoo wasn't taking precautions enough.
There wasn't a high enough wall.
This is such bull crap with these children going.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
You may not have heard, but the Cincinnati police are looking into criminal charges against the zoo.
And on Fox News this morning, they said there were not going to be any charges.
Parents were going to be cleared.
You know what?
It's just No, no, no, no, no, no, wait, wait.
Not against the parents.
The zoo, precisely because the four-year-old was able to fall in there.
Okay, see, and that's what I mean.
When is it gonna be the parents' responsibility?
I don't know what the frick the mother was doing for the other thing.
That's never not no, nothing gonna happen.
This is why the generation of kids is ending up to be the generation of what they are.
Uh because it's never their fault, it's never the parents' fault.
And again, I am so much for animals.
I felt so bad for this gorilla.
Like you said, he was just doing his own thing.
And I'm one of those animal crazy people where if there's a person on the side of the road that's injured, and there's an animal on the side of the road that's injured, the person is screwed with me.
That's all there is to it.
Because I just think people make their own decisions, and a lot of times, Rush, they're very evil.
They're very evil.
And with this gorilla, I just felt really really you're You're making my point.
What you what you're doing here is understandable.
You're you're looking at the animal.
In your example, you got an uh an injured animal on the side of the road.
We don't know how it got there, and we've got an injured human being on the side of the road.
And you're automatically your default position is to go check out the animal.
You know why?
Because it's the essence of innocent.
The human being had a choice whether or not to get in an accident's going to be on the side of the road.
The animal, it's just along for the ride, and it's not its fault no matter what, and it can't take care of itself, so you've got to go help it.
Absolutely.
And I feel very strong about that.
So if people want to call me crazy, so be it.
But I feel I hold no bones about that.
All my clients even know who I am and how I am with animals.
Nobody's calling you crazy.
It's just it's just that in a.
Well, maybe.
I can handle that.
Phone calls.
But you know what?
I love you.
I told Mr. Snerdley, I love you to death.
So I really, really well, you can rest assured that there's no bigger animal lover than me.
I have three dogs, I've got this little cat.
Uh but but but uh uh even aside from that, I have the the reason I know how you feel about animals is I feel the same way about them.
But when it comes down in the in the gorilla case situation, it's just one of these unfortunate things.
There was no way that anybody was going to get that gorilla to hand over the baby.
If you if I guess you in that circumstance value the gorilla's life more than the babies because the parents are the ultimate responsibility.
Kid wouldn't have fallen in there if the parents had been paying attention, so the parents need to pay the price.
The gorilla doesn't.
That's your view.
Well, this is how I feel.
You heard the mother on the tape, mommy's here, mommy's here.
What the good frick was mommy two minutes ago before the kid fell in.
Right.
Where was mommy?
Uh mommy was looking at cotton candy vendor.
I don't know what would but you know, and again, that's just my view.
Um I love you, Rush, but I I you know, animals are in my world, and sometimes I just feel you're condescending to animal lovers.
So I am not condescending to animal.
I am condescending to PETA.
I am condescending to people who use people's natural love for animals as a way to advance the liberal agenda.
I look, if you want to understand me, uh Donette, all you if if you want to be able to, if you're ever confused of what I say what I mean, understand it's always my belief that there's politics in everything, and I am opposed to liberalism,
and I am opposed to the seductive ways that liberalism corrupts people, innocent people into into assuming positions that are detrimental to American society and culture and the country at large.
And the left has got all these disparate groups, they've got animal rights groups, they've got PETA, they've got environmentalist wackos, they've got feminists, but this is how they do it.
And every one of these groups ends up, you'll notice who's to blame for it's always humanity, usually conservative human beings or Republican human beings.
It's human beings destroying the planet when I don't think we have the ability to.
We don't have the ability to destroy the if a president ordered the world's most intelligent scientists to destroy the ozone, they couldn't do it.
If the if the if the president or the Pope ordered the smartest scientists in the world to destroy the climate of the earth, they could not do it.
They wouldn't know where to begin.
And yet we're told every day that we're doing it, and we're caused by what advancing and progress in our lives.
And it's BS.
It is utter total BS, and it's one of the many webs of deceit that has been woven into the fabric of our society by the American and international left to advance their agenda of big government control over all people because people don't know what's best.
People don't know what's important.
People don't know how to take care of themselves or others.
People are selfish, people are this, people are that, and I resent the heck out of it.
I do not make fun of animal lovers.
I understand them.
I try to protect them from getting lassoed into some liberal agenda that they don't understand and end up promoting and advancing while they're not even aware that they're doing it.
And it just it it gets absurd sometimes.
But I have I have uh I have a reference for for animals.
I don't spend a lot of time talking about it here because it's it just don't never come up.
Um but I do not make fun of animal lovers.
I am one.
I make fun of and I try to expose liberalism everywhere it is lurking, and it lurks.
It's always behind the scenes and underneath the surface.
It's never ever out in the open.
It couldn't survive if it were.
So never forget that.
Next time you hear me ripping into or making fun of what you think is an animal lover, stop and think for a moment.
What is Rush really saying here?
And take it beyond what you think it is.
Understand that there's always going to be a political component because politics is part of everything.
Whether people like it or not, want to admit it or not, that's the truth.
The uh police originally said there weren't going to be any charges.
Authorities now taking a second look at the possibility of criminal charges in the incident after the police initially said that no one would be charged.
And what they're looking at, apparently the incident at the Cincinnati Zoo involved the young child who fell into the guerrilla enclosure.
Uh, the incidents under investigation by the Cincinnati Police Department.
Once the investigation is concluded, they'll confer with uh VA's office, the prosecutor's office on possible criminal charges.
This would be against the zoo, and I don't think for killing the gorilla.
I think it's going to be about the uh enclosure and whether or not it was sufficient enough to prevent something like this happening.
Now, witnesses said that the child had expressed a desire to get into the enclosure and climbed over a three-foot barrier, and then fell fifteen feet into a moat.
His mother on Facebook said he suffered a concussion and scrapes, but was uh otherwise fine.
So I I I will guarantee you that all of this commentary, if you will, on social media is driving the cops to change their mind on perhaps pursuing uh a criminal investigation here.
But you you go talk to any lawyer you want, and and the lawyer will tell you that charges against the parents and something like this will never happen.
Uh they'll never be able to prove criminal child endangerment or anything of the sort.
They won't even go there.
That if there are charges, it'll be against the zoo, and it'll be in relationship to the enclosure where people are standing observing the uh the gorillas.
Look, let me get started with these Trump sound bites.
We opened the program talking about this presser, and it was a press conference for the ages, and it's one of these press conferences that many people on the Republican side have been desperately hoping to see someday, sometime, with a Republican under assault,
judged to be an unfair assault, finally being ripped into by the Republic, the media being ripped into here for the way they're going about their business.
So this is at Trump Tower, Major Garrett, CBS, Chief White House correspondent.
How personally involved were you in deciding which military organizations were to be recipients and how much they got, and how did you prioritize them?
I wasn't too involved in picking the organizations, other than I gave a million dollars to the Marine to the law enforcement marine.
They are fabulous people.
They honored me last year.
I knew them.
I was going to give it to three companies or three groups, and we couldn't vet them quickly, and so I gave it to the Marine.
And if you look at that number, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is a fabulous group, and I didn't have to go through a big vetting process with them because I was going to split the million dollar check-up among three or four different groups, and in the end I just didn't want to go through the process of having to vet all those different groups.
Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, Jim Calstrom, the former head of the New York office of the FBI, is now one of the executive directors of uh M. Cliff.
And as you know, this program is involved deeply with M. Cliff, as is the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
Uh books are two if by T. We are we are sponsors of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
If you'll recall, the Harry Reed letter that he wrote to the former CEO of Clear Channel demanding that I be made to apologize and maybe be forced to resign over unfairly calling a veteran a phony soldier.
We auctioned that Harry Reed letter, and I agreed to match whatever it raised.
And four million dollars was donated to the Marine Corps law.
4.2 actually.
It sold on eBay for 2.1 million, and I had agreed to match it.
So it was 4.2 million dollars to M. Cliff.
And I was at that event that Trump was honored.
He was sitting for what it's worth.
Well, two tables over.
But I was at that event, and I uh j just to attest that it happened.
And I want you to hear Calstrom was on CNN today.
Carol Costello was hoping, hoping that Kalstrom would somehow contradict what Trump had said.
She said, Mr. Trump pledged one million dollars of his own money to one organization.
Was it yours?
We did get a million dollars from Donald.
He's been a big supporter of veterans' groups for close to four decades now, Carol.
I knew for some time that we were going to be the recipient.
I didn't know the the actual amount.
But uh I guess it was about a week ago.
Don't hold me of that.
Some week ago, ten days ago when we actually received the money.
Yeah, and I was there, it was I think it was ex it's like two Aprils ago.
Maybe it's in March, but it's it's always the Waldorf Estaria in the grand ballroom there.
And uh Trump was the award winner and the recipient that year.
One more question from Carol Costello and answer.
I was just wondering if you found out in January, shortly after the event, if your organization would be a beneficiary.
Well, there were hints in that direction, and he's always been a big supporter of us.
We give ninety-eight percent of the money donated, uh, which is a very high number that we're very proud of.
We have one part-time employee, and basically all the money goes to the children of those who've lost their life uh in the line of duty.
Yeah, Marines, and sometimes they expand it to Army and Air Force, sometimes Secret Service, uh Oklahoma City bombing all of the protective agencies that were housed in the Mura building, uh M. Cliff went into action then, but they provide scholarships to the children of Marines killed in action.
I was practically there in the living room when this foundation was formed in Rockville Center on a Long Island.
And they are a great much people.
They do have a 98% pass through, and I know who the one employee is, and he's one of the greatest guys in the world.
But what difference does it most say Trump does his his his his veterans deal on the night of the uh Hawkeye Cork eye primary debate that was on uh on on Fox, you know, Trump skipped it, did a did a uh veterans fundraiser.
So here's Carol Cost.
Well, well, Mr. Kalstrom, did did Trump did he decide way back in January that your organization was against though what they're trying to say is that they have forced Trump into donating money that he never intended to donate, he was just saying that he was going to.
That's that's their premise.
And they're trying to catch Trump and all that.
He knows it, and he's fed up with it, and that's the that set the tone for the for the press conference.
Back to the next press conference bite.
This is Major Garrett following up.
Don't you believe you should be accountable to the people?
I'm totally accountable, but I didn't want to have credit for it.
We have given to groups that are unbelievable groups, and honestly, I wish you could hear the phone calls and see the letters.
They are so happy.
And I'm happy to do it.
I didn't want the credit for it, but it was very unfair that the press treated us so badly.
Uh go ahead.
To follow up on that, you keep calling us the dishonest press, the disgusting press.
I disagree with that, sir.
And I if I can ask you this question, it it seems as though you're resistant to scrutiny, uh, the kind of scrutiny that comes with running for president of the United States.
Excuse me, I've watched you on television.
You're a real beauty.
When I raise money for the veterans, and it's a massive amount of money, find out how much Hillary Clinton's given to the veterans.
Nothing.
That's exactly right, because Hillary Clinton doesn't give anybody anything.
With Hillary Clinton, it's all incoming.
There's no outgoing.
There's no outflow with Hillary Clinton.
But Trump is right.
Okay, so you you think I deserve scrutiny.
Where is the scrutiny of Bernie Sanders?
Where's the scrutiny of Hillary Clinton?
Where is one half of the interest in this whole email scandal of hers that you're showing in whether I've donated to the vets or not.
But look, everybody knows the game here.
This is why people love what Trump is doing here.
He's not standing up here taking, he's firing right back at them.
He's letting them know he knows it's an unlevel playing field.
He's going to treat them accordingly.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be right back, don't the New York Times Hillary Clinton struggles to find footing in unusual race.
This is one of two stories in the Times in which they express trouble.
Confusion, and over how to position Hillary and make her look good against Trump.
She can't do that on her own.
It's kind of funny, actually.
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