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Jeffersons Ghost

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17. No Nazis were involved in WWI. It is illegal to display swastikas in modern Germany...
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:20 PM
Aug 2019
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/

Trump says "BE QUIET!" [View all] Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 OP
The Trump family then went on to claiming they were Swedish! madaboutharry Aug 2019 #1
Aryan Swedish? William Seger Aug 2019 #16
No, Hadean lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #28
Projection and deception, lots of deception. TryLogic Aug 2019 #26
Beto O'Rourke with Jesse Jackson dalton99a Aug 2019 #2
:) True Blue American Aug 2019 #4
The P.U.S.H. is an acronym for littlemissmartypants Aug 2019 #30
I had never seen that pic... SMC22307 Aug 2019 #40
Love it malaise Aug 2019 #44
O'Rourke sounds Irish to me. As for the nick-name "Beto"... Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 #3
Yep, he is Irish. dalton99a Aug 2019 #5
There is no one as Irish as Barrack O'Bama.... safeinOhio Aug 2019 #23
trump is afraid of Beto Gothmog Aug 2019 #6
The racist Trump is always racist Kid Berwyn Aug 2019 #7
Gee, Melania looks swell there. (eyeroll) nt Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #8
Kidneys at full capacity dalton99a Aug 2019 #9
Wait.....🤔 Traildogbob Aug 2019 #18
She has HUGE PCIntern Aug 2019 #19
And he no no access. Traildogbob Aug 2019 #21
LOL, Traildogbob! But let's give the First stripper-Lady a break for claiming to watch CNN... Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 #38
Thank you Traildogbob Aug 2019 #39
I thinks she's on assignment. Kid Berwyn Aug 2019 #10
Boris on the right, Natasha on the left lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #31
More like... 3catwoman3 Aug 2019 #29
Frederick left Germany because he didn't want to serve in the army. gibraltar72 Aug 2019 #11
Yes, and then when he tried to repatriate to Germany geardaddy Aug 2019 #12
The OP recounted Drumpf as having 'emigrated.' He was actually kicked out of Germany. Texin Aug 2019 #32
Yep, it was an illegal emigration according to German authories geardaddy Aug 2019 #37
Sleaze bdamomma Aug 2019 #41
Yes and he owed taxes PatSeg Aug 2019 #15
Yeah, he might've destroyed Germany before Hitler got a chance! lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #33
Gramps Trump PatSeg Aug 2019 #46
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
It must have been so stressful for Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #36
Felito Cruz - his own nickname keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #13
Frederick Drumpf was Expelled from Germany for Refusing Military Service dlk Aug 2019 #14
Drumpfry Mc Schnitzelnazi Ligyron Aug 2019 #20
Filing away for future use. 47of74 Aug 2019 #25
47of74 says fornicate you to Drumpf. 47of74 Aug 2019 #24
Good for Beto DeminPennswoods Aug 2019 #27
I have a better idea, Fat Boy. YOU Shut up! smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #34
hey smirky bdamomma Aug 2019 #42
Hopefully sooner rather than later, bdamomma! smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #43
Hell, smirkymonkey, your headline is the wish of ALL GPPs running for Senate. Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2019 #45
hem. if i said anything stronger ,my post would get taken down AllaN01Bear Aug 2019 #35
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