There are two meanings to “filthy rich.” One refers to making a ton of money. The other is the “filth” that takes place on how money is made.

Donald Trump got filthy rich through his own private resources. Contrast that with Hillary Clinton if you will.

How did Hillary (and Bill) amass a fortune? There’s a huge difference between presidential candidates Trump and Hillary, not mentioned clearly by media.

Trump’s business is a private enterprise, not a public one as with the Clintons. The Clintons became multi millionaires using public resources. They got rich at your expense and mine as taxpayers. Hillary had access to a treasure trove of your tax money and mine.

The Clinton Foundation scam was bribery on both ends. “Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” It was more like promiscuous massages, figuratively speaking. Hillary, through the State Department as Secretary of State, pretty much said donate to the CF and I will return the favor, in some way, through U.S. government.

A good case can be made the Clinton Foundation may be the biggest scam of public monies in the history of this country. How would you like to have government contracts, ambassador appointments, U.S. arms shipments, etc. at your fingertips in order to take in private donations? What a scheme! Rogue nations and even some felons were participants during Hillary’s time as Secretary of State.

If you or I gave, let’s say, a hundred dollars to a charitable organization wouldn’t we expect more than ten dollars (10%) to go to charity per se? Some agencies that oversee charitable organizations don’t even recognize CF as charity. Most of the CF money goes for administrative expenses such as office space and equipment, high class travel, over night stays, six figure salaries, etc., even “lawyering up.” To say, as in the case of a recent local editorial, that the CF does great things as a charitable organization is a stretch of the worst kind.

Lots of the money going into the CF is used by the Clintons for their own personal use, even as we speak. On top of CF donations, they became multimillionaires in a few short years giving speeches in return for favors. Bill, in one case, got three quarters of a million dollars for one speech! What? Only God could give a speech worth that much! Hillary gave a number of 20-minute speeches for a quarter of a million dollars each.

How is it done in a multitude of cases? Read best seller author Peter Schweizer’s book “Clinton Cash.” You darn right the dots can be connected. You darn right there is more than smoke in this huge scandal. There is fire! Enormous research went into writing this book and everything is documented.

Hillary’s private email server was primarily for one purpose and that was to hide how the State Department and Clinton Foundation were connected at the hip in a massive scheme to line the pockets of the Clintons personally. It was all about concealment, lack of transparency, and no accountability to we the people.

Hillary’s private email server was, for a fact, a criminal enterprise. Just because the FBI didn’t make it illegal doesn’t make it so. She’s guilty as sin. FBI Director James Comey clearly is in on the take. He is corrupt, as is Attorney General Loretta Lynch of the Dept. of Justice. The State Dept. was complicit in what Hillary was doing, and President Obama could care less what she did in as much as he wants her to take his place and continue with his agendas. They are all in it together.

As things look right now, half the country could care less about how corrupt our government and the Clintons have become. We all know people that have moral values, but for inexplicable reasons plan to vote for crooked Hillary anyway. What does that say about what this country has become? We went from a Christian one to a secular one.

As I said in several previous Reader Forum letters, the bombshells of this scandal may be so very big our greatest fears of a corrupt presidential candidate taking over the most powerful office in the world just might be dead in the water.

God willing, that needs to be the case.

Les Knoll lives in Victoria and Gilbert, Ariz.