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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's doc made no "reference to candidate's medical deferment for bone spurs...during Vietnam War
Trump's doc made no "reference to the candidate's medical deferment for bone spurs ... during the Vietnam War." http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/donald-trumps-medical-records-216747#ixzz3uKvudUKH
https://twitter.com/TimothyNoah1/status/676528540754558976
http://bigstory.ap.org/712700b08bef4d179fca4de9f2b8c085
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/14/10122890/donald-trump-health-records
In recent days, Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, and his campaign have said that he received the medical deferment because he had bone spurs in his feet. But rather than clear up all questions about why he did not serve in the military during the Vietnam era, they have given shifting accounts that are at odds with the few remaining documents in his Selective Service file.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questions-linger-about-trumps-draft-deferments-during-vietnam-war/2015/07/21/257677bc-2fdd-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html
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Trump's doc made no "reference to candidate's medical deferment for bone spurs...during Vietnam War (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2015
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Hekate
(90,719 posts)1. Thank you for this, kpete. It needs to get some traction for being quite hilarious, in its own way.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)2. And we have yet to hear from his psychiatrist (eom)
doc03
(35,351 posts)3. And they were huuuuge n/t
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)4. Wouldn't bone spurs have made him 4F
and precluded the need for him to keep applying for deferments?
rocktivity