- 24 Sep 2017 17:42
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During the run up to the election Donald proclaimed that John McCain was not a war hero: "He’s a war hero because he was captured," Trump said July 18, 2015, during an interview in Ames, Iowa. "I like people who weren’t captured." McCain ended up in a Hanoi POW camp after his Navy dive bomber was shot down in 1967. He broke both arms and a leg as he ejected. He endured enormous pain and torture and spent over five years in captivity. I guess if McCain had fought off the entire North Vietnamese army and escaped with two broken arms and a broken leg he may have, just may have, qualified for hero status in Donald's version of reality.
That this differs from Donald's war record is an understatement. Donald received five deferments from the draft. Four student deferments and one medical deferment for "bone spurs" ( ) on his feet that were "discovered" during a medical examination he had after his student days ran out. It is interesting to note that during a period between his second and third student deferments he was briefly classified as 1A, eligible for the draft. Somehow his medical exam at the time failed to notice "bone spurs".
Trump failed to mention his medical deferment when he told ABC News on July 19, 2015, that he was never drafted because the draft lottery went into effect and his birthday came with a high number.
"If I would have gotten a low number, I would have been drafted. I would have proudly served," he said. "But I got a number, I think it was 356. That’s right at the very end. And they didn't get -- I don’t believe -- past even 300, so I was -- I was not chosen because of the fact that I had a very high lottery number."
Additionally, Donald had the opportunity to volunteer and the record speaks for itself that he did not.
You reap what you sow is apparently a maxim that Donald is not familiar with. I have to wonder if John McCain's failure to vote for shit bills that would make Donald seem like a Great Man has anything to do with being on the receiving end of Donald's childish insults.
These days Donald has found it useful to beat the drums of jingoism as a way to distract attention from his so far failed legislative record and various criminal investigations on his horizon.
That this differs from Donald's war record is an understatement. Donald received five deferments from the draft. Four student deferments and one medical deferment for "bone spurs" ( ) on his feet that were "discovered" during a medical examination he had after his student days ran out. It is interesting to note that during a period between his second and third student deferments he was briefly classified as 1A, eligible for the draft. Somehow his medical exam at the time failed to notice "bone spurs".
Trump failed to mention his medical deferment when he told ABC News on July 19, 2015, that he was never drafted because the draft lottery went into effect and his birthday came with a high number.
"If I would have gotten a low number, I would have been drafted. I would have proudly served," he said. "But I got a number, I think it was 356. That’s right at the very end. And they didn't get -- I don’t believe -- past even 300, so I was -- I was not chosen because of the fact that I had a very high lottery number."
Additionally, Donald had the opportunity to volunteer and the record speaks for itself that he did not.
You reap what you sow is apparently a maxim that Donald is not familiar with. I have to wonder if John McCain's failure to vote for shit bills that would make Donald seem like a Great Man has anything to do with being on the receiving end of Donald's childish insults.
These days Donald has found it useful to beat the drums of jingoism as a way to distract attention from his so far failed legislative record and various criminal investigations on his horizon.
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