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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 07:44 PM Dec 2015

Trump'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 OP
Thank you for this, kpete. It needs to get some traction for being quite hilarious, in its own way. Hekate Dec 2015 #1
And we have yet to hear from his psychiatrist (eom) HassleCat Dec 2015 #2
And they were huuuuge n/t doc03 Dec 2015 #3
Wouldn't bone spurs have made him 4F rocktivity Aug 2016 #4

Hekate

(90,719 posts)
1. Thank you for this, kpete. It needs to get some traction for being quite hilarious, in its own way.
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 07:45 PM
Dec 2015

rocktivity

(44,577 posts)
4. Wouldn't bone spurs have made him 4F
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 09:19 PM
Aug 2016

and precluded the need for him to keep applying for deferments?


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