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CatWoman

(79,295 posts)
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 01:02 PM Mar 2019

Bob Kerrey: SHOW US THE X-RAYS!!!

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) demanded that President Donald Trump present the nation with X-rays of his feet to prove once and for all the bone spurs in his heels he claimed for a medical exemption from the Vietnam War draft.

Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who lost part of his right leg during the war, said on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°” that “you don’t grow out of bone spurs.” If Trump had them in the 1960s, Kerrey said, he’d still have them now (unless he underwent surgery, which Trump has never mentioned).

The challenge followed Trump’s latest disparaging remarks about the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for more than five years. McCain, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer, died in August.

“While John McCain was flying combat operations in Vietnam, you were, I think, falsifying that you had bone spurs in order not to go to Vietnam,” said Kerrey, a 1992 presidential candidate who retired from the Senate in 2000. “Now, I know lots of people who avoided the draft, but this isn’t what he’s saying. He said ‘I physically couldn’t go.’ Well, Mr. President, get your feet X-rayed and let’s see those bone spurs. I don’t think he has them.”

Kerrey said he also believed Trump “sees all of us who went to Vietnam as fools. We were the suckers. We were the stupid ones. We were the ones that didn’t have the resources to be able to get out of the draft.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-john-mccain-bob-kerrey-vietnam-x-ray-bone-spurs_n_5c933db2e4b0d952b223753a?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&section=politics&utm_source=politics_fb&fbclid=IwAR1T2wBsf1WmPOCqs3jgqcm8qGQvz4PUGG4w2FAiCwiFFCEYlVCs1vfU6o0

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Bob Kerrey: SHOW US THE X-RAYS!!! (Original Post) CatWoman Mar 2019 OP
Yes, lets see these supposed bone spurs, rump. Where are the xrays and proof? ... SWBTATTReg Mar 2019 #1
Those X-rays MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #2
Kerry is right. Blue_true Mar 2019 #3
(Blowing in the wind) John McCain whispers to America: NCjack Mar 2019 #4
Bob Kerrey was OUTSTANDING in that interview. Maru Kitteh Mar 2019 #5
There are no x-rays NewJeffCT Mar 2019 #6
SHOW us the x-rays and bring your GD TAX RETURNS with you Trump....... Bengus81 Mar 2019 #7
Photo evidence of Trump's bone spurs... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #8
I want to see the long form x-rays rusty fender Mar 2019 #9
Cadet Bonespurs: "Those x-rays are still being audited" Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #10
Medal of Honor winner vs draft-dodger Don Number9Dream Mar 2019 #11

SWBTATTReg

(22,110 posts)
1. Yes, lets see these supposed bone spurs, rump. Where are the xrays and proof? ...
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 01:07 PM
Mar 2019

And don't go around saying that you had surgery to fix or whatever. If you do, prove it.

You are all full of hot air and the brown stuff, you lying scumbag.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
3. Kerry is right.
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 01:12 PM
Mar 2019

I think that Trump considers anyone that fought in Vietnam, like one of my older brothers, as suckers. The Vietnam vets that are backing him today are nothing more than stage props for him, he has no intention nor no desire to make their lives better.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
6. There are no x-rays
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 02:24 PM
Mar 2019

it's already been shown that Trump's father bribed a doctor in NYC to give Lil Donny a fake bone spurs diagnosis.

Number9Dream

(1,560 posts)
11. Medal of Honor winner vs draft-dodger Don
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 09:35 AM
Mar 2019

Senator Kerrey's comments should be covered by all the major media, but only Huffpost covers them.

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