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In reply to the discussion: Trump says "BE QUIET!" [View all]Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)17. No Nazis were involved in WWI. It is illegal to display swastikas in modern Germany...
Cowardliness appears to be a Trump family tradition.
Podiatrist's daughters say bone spur diagnosis that helped Trump avoid Vietnam draft was 'favor'
William Cummings, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON Two daughters of a New York podiatrist say that 50 years ago their father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs in his heels as a favor to the doctor's landlord, Fred Trump, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Trump received five deferments from the draft for military service during the Vietnam War. He received four education deferments while he was a college student and a fifth deferment in 1968 for a medical exemption after he graduated.
Elysa Braunstein said their father made the diagnosis to gain access to the landlord [Trump's father] and that she didn't know if her father even examined the junior Trump.
"I had a doctor that gave me a letter a very strong letter on the heels," Trump told the Times. [But alleged bone-spur didn't interfere with Teflon Don's athletic endeavors]
"I was the best baseball player in New York when I was young," Trump told interviewer Michael D'Antonio in 2014. "I was always the best at sports."
Questions about Trump's deferments have dogged him at least since 2011 when The Smoking Gun published an extract of his draft record. Critics have noted that Trump was an athlete who enjoyed playing football, baseball, squash, tennis and golf in the years before his medical deferment.
Trump told the Times in 2016 that a doctor wrote him a letter for the draft board about the bone spurs which Trump said were "temporary" and "minor" but he could not recall the doctor's name. "I had a doctor that gave me a letter a very strong letter on the heels," Trump told the Times.
When asked which foot had the problem, Trump who has claimed to have "one of the greatest memories of all time" told reporters that he could not remember. His campaign later released a statement saying the spurs affected both feet. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/27/trump-vietnam-war-bone-spur-diagnosis/2420475002/
William Cummings, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON Two daughters of a New York podiatrist say that 50 years ago their father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs in his heels as a favor to the doctor's landlord, Fred Trump, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Trump received five deferments from the draft for military service during the Vietnam War. He received four education deferments while he was a college student and a fifth deferment in 1968 for a medical exemption after he graduated.
Elysa Braunstein said their father made the diagnosis to gain access to the landlord [Trump's father] and that she didn't know if her father even examined the junior Trump.
"I had a doctor that gave me a letter a very strong letter on the heels," Trump told the Times. [But alleged bone-spur didn't interfere with Teflon Don's athletic endeavors]
"I was the best baseball player in New York when I was young," Trump told interviewer Michael D'Antonio in 2014. "I was always the best at sports."
Questions about Trump's deferments have dogged him at least since 2011 when The Smoking Gun published an extract of his draft record. Critics have noted that Trump was an athlete who enjoyed playing football, baseball, squash, tennis and golf in the years before his medical deferment.
Trump told the Times in 2016 that a doctor wrote him a letter for the draft board about the bone spurs which Trump said were "temporary" and "minor" but he could not recall the doctor's name. "I had a doctor that gave me a letter a very strong letter on the heels," Trump told the Times.
When asked which foot had the problem, Trump who has claimed to have "one of the greatest memories of all time" told reporters that he could not remember. His campaign later released a statement saying the spurs affected both feet. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/27/trump-vietnam-war-bone-spur-diagnosis/2420475002/
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LOL, Traildogbob! But let's give the First stripper-Lady a break for claiming to watch CNN...
Jeffersons Ghost
Aug 2019
#38
The OP recounted Drumpf as having 'emigrated.' He was actually kicked out of Germany.
Texin
Aug 2019
#32
No Nazis were involved in WWI. It is illegal to display swastikas in modern Germany...
Jeffersons Ghost
Aug 2019
#17
If this were his only deceitful thing, but it is a way of life. Every breath. Every word. Deceit.
The Wielding Truth
Aug 2019
#22
Hell, smirkymonkey, your headline is the wish of ALL GPPs running for Senate.
Jeffersons Ghost
Aug 2019
#45