NYT: Trump got 5 Draft deferments (Four for College, One for Bad Feet)

[A Perez]

A new piece examines how Donald Trump dodged the Vietnam War via deferments and a booboo on his foot, yet he still has the balls to criticize parents of fallen soldiers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html?smid=tw-share

 

[TheOldSchool]

 

[DarkFury]

Its NOT new its OLD NEWS. By the way bone spurs in the heel PREVENT marching. COMMON problem.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Its NOT new its OLD NEWS. By the way bone spurs in the heel PREVENT marching. COMMON problem.

You know what else prevents marching? Tons and tons of money.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

At least he did not lie to get a deferment and then skip the country like Bill Clinton.

 

[easyt65]

BAM!

 

[Neotrotsky]

NYT: Trump got 5 Draft deferments (Four for College, One for Bad Feet)

"new", sure

and
Queen Hillary let 4 Americans die in Benghazi
and got a lighter sentence for a rapist of a 12 year old girl
and laughed about it

lets call it even

 

[Neotrotsky]

Its NOT new its OLD NEWS. By the way bone spurs in the heel PREVENT marching. COMMON problem.

Seeing the Democrats getting all geared up on any and all issues for Trump
shows their desperation to find some "silver bullet"

 

[Juan de Fuca]

What is funny about this is that a simple X Ray could prove Trump innocent or guilty, because the evidence of bone spurs remains. They don't disappear and have to be surgically removed. Donald Trump got his medical deferment but then went on to play three different sports in college.

So, if Donald Trump wants to bring an end to this all he has to do is have that X Ray done and then show the world that he is either innocent of all charges and a stand up guy or he was a draft evader, proving to the world he is a 24kt coward.

 

[Neotrotsky]

At least he did not lie to get a deferment and then skip the country like Bill Clinton.

good point
thanks for reminding us

plus, he took a spot
which means someone else could not get it

so who went off to Vietnam because Bill took their spot and skipped anyway

 

[Vandalshandle]

Trump is actually a walking medical miracle! The bone spurs on his feet disappeared without surgery after he was no longer threatened by the draft. I think that it might have had something to do with divine intervention through Oral Roberts....

 

[DarkFury]

What is funny about this is that a simple X Ray could prove Trump innocent or guilty, because the evidence of bone spurs remains. They don't disappear and have to be surgically removed. Donald Trump got his medical deferment but then went on to play three different sports in college.

So, if Donald Trump wants to bring an end to this all he has to do is have that X Ray done and then show the world that he is either innocent of all charges and a stand up guy or he was a draft evader, proving to the world he is a 24kt coward.

OH, damn, are you calling our military liars? Those bone spurs HAVE to be confirmed by the draft board.

 

[Juan de Fuca]

Trump is actually a walking medical miracle! The bone spurs on his feet disappeared without surgery after he was no longer threatened by the draft. I think that it might have had something to do with divine intervention through Oral Roberts....

Yeah his doctor must have been Miss Cleo.

 

[BULLDOG]

At least he did not lie to get a deferment and then skip the country like Bill Clinton.

Becoming a Rhodes Scholar can hardly be called skipping the country.

 

[Juan de Fuca]

What is funny about this is that a simple X Ray could prove Trump innocent or guilty, because the evidence of bone spurs remains. They don't disappear and have to be surgically removed. Donald Trump got his medical deferment but then went on to play three different sports in college.

So, if Donald Trump wants to bring an end to this all he has to do is have that X Ray done and then show the world that he is either innocent of all charges and a stand up guy or he was a draft evader, proving to the world he is a 24kt coward.

OH, damn, are you calling our military liars? Those bone spurs HAVE to be confirmed by the draft board.

DUH, medical experts confirm bone spurs, the draft board doesn't have the medical qualifications to do that.

 

[BULLDOG]

NYT: Trump got 5 Draft deferments (Four for College, One for Bad Feet)

"new", sure

and
Queen Hillary let 4 Americans die in Benghazi
and got a lighter sentence for a rapist of a 12 year old girl
and laughed about it

lets call it even

No your hyped up lies have been proven wrong countless times.

 

[Vigilante]

[Note: After the draft letter, below, there is a transcript of a February 1992 Nightline program in which then-Governor Bill Clinton discusses the controversial draft letter with Ted Koppel.]

"Dear Colonel Holmes,

I am sorry to be so long in writing. I know I promised to let you hear from me at least once a month, and from now on you will, but I have had to have some time to think about this first letter. Almost daily since my return to England I have thought about writing, about what I want to and ought to say. First, I want to thank you, not just for saving me from the draft, but for being so kind and decent to me last summer, when I was as low as I have ever been. One thing which made the bond we struck in good faith somewhat palatable to me was my high regard for you personally. In retrospect, it seems that the admiration might not have been mutual had you known a little more about me, about my political beliefs and activities. At least you might have thought me more fit for the draft than for ROTC. Let me try to explain.

As you know, I worked for two years in a very minor position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I did it for the experience and the salary, but also for the opportunity, however small, of working every day against a war I opposed and despised with a depth of feeling I had reserved solely for racism in America before Vietnam. I did not take the matter lightly, but studied it carefully, and there was a time when not many people had more information about Vietnam at hand than I did. I have written and spoken and marched against the war. One of the national organizers of the Vietnam Moratorium is a close friend of mine. After I left Arkansas last summer, I went to Washington to work in the national headquarters of the Moratorium, then to England to organize the Americans here for demonstrations here October 15th and November 16th.

After one week of answering questions about allegations of draft-dodging and one week before the New Hampshire primary, a letter surfaces in which a young Bill Clinton thanks a colonel for "saving me from the draft."Clinton defends the letter and questions the motives of his accusers. (2/12/92)

Interlocked with the war is the draft issue, which I did not begin to consider separately until early 1968. For a law seminar at Georgetown I wrote a paper on the legal arguments for and against allowing, within the Selective Service System, the classification of selective conscientious objection, for those opposed to participation in a particular war, not simply to, quote, participation in war in any form, end quote. From my work I came to believe that the draft system itself is illegitimate. No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war they may oppose, a war which even possibly may be wrong, a war which, in any case, does not involve immediately the peace and freedom of the nation.
The draft was justified in World War II because the life of the people collectively was at stake. Individuals had to fight if the nation was to survive, for the lives of their countrymen and their way of life. Vietnam is no such case. Nor was Korea, an example where, in my opinion, certain military action was justified but the draft was not, for the reasons stated above.

Because of my opposition to the draft and the war, I am in great sympathy with those who are not willing to fight, kill, and maybe die for their country, that is, the particular policy of a particular government, right or wrong. Two of my friends at Oxford are conscientious objectors. I wrote a letter of recommendation for one of them to his Mississippi draft board, a letter which I am more proud of than anything else I wrote at Oxford last year. One of my roommates is a draft resister who is possibly under indictment and may never be able to go home again. He is one of the bravest, best men I know. His country needs men like him more than they know. That he is considered a criminal is an obscenity.

The decision not to be a resister and the related subsequent decisions were the most difficult of my life. I decided to accept the draft in spite of my beliefs for one reason: to maintain my political viability within the system. For years I have worked to prepare myself for a political life characterized by both practical political ability and concern for rapid social progress. It is a life I still feel compelled to try to lead. I do not think our system of government is by definition corrupt, however dangerous and inadequate it has been in recent years (the society may be corrupt, but that is not the same thing, and if that is true we are all finished anyway).

When the draft came, despite political convictions, I was having a hard time facing the prospect of fighting a war I had been fighting against, and that is why I contacted you. ROTC was the one way left in which I could possibly, but not positively, avoid both Vietnam and resistance. Going on with my education, even coming back to England, played no part in my decision to join ROTC. I am back here, and would have been at Arkansas Law School, because there is nothing else I can do. In fact, I would like to have been able to take a year out perhaps to teach in a small college or work on some community action project and in the process to decide whether to attend law school or graduate school and how to be putting what I have learned to use. But the particulars of my personal life are not nearly as important to me as the principles involved.

After I signed the ROTC letter of intent I began to wonder whether the compromise I had made with myself was not more objectionable than the draft would have been, because I had no interest in the ROTC program in itself and all I seemed to have done was to protect myself from physical harm. Also, I began to think I had deceived you, not by lies - there were none - but by failing to tell you all the things I'm writing now. I doubt that I had the mental coherence to articulate them then. At that time, after we had made our agreement and you had sent my 1 - D deferment to my draft board, the anguish and loss of self-regard and self-confidence really set in. I hardly slept for weeks and kept going by eating compulsively and reading until exhaustion brought sleep. Finally on September 12th, I stayed up all night writing a letter to the chairman of my draft board, saying basically what is in the preceding paragraph, thanking him for trying to help me in a case where he really couldn't, and stating that I couldn't do the ROTC after all and would he please draft me as soon as possible.

I never mailed the letter, but I did carry it on me every day until I got on the plane to return to England. I didn't mail the letter because I didn't see, in the end, how my going in the Army and maybe going to Vietnam would achieve anything except a feeling that I had punished myself and gotten what I deserved. So I came back to England to try to make something of this second year of my Rhodes scholarship.

And that is where I am now, writing to you because you have been good to me and have a right to know what I think and feel. I am writing too in the hope that my telling this one story will help you to understand more clearly how so many fine people have come to find themselves still loving their country but loathing the military, to which you and other good men have devoted years, lifetimes, of the best service you could give. To many of us, it is no longer clear what is service and what is disservice, or if it is clear, the conclusion is likely to be illegal. Forgive the length of this letter. There was much to say. There is still a lot to be said, but it can wait. Please say hello to Colonel Jones for me. Merry Christmas.

Sincerely,

Bill Clinton"

 

[OKTexas]

A new piece examines how Donald Trump dodged the Vietnam War via deferments and a booboo on his foot, yet he still has the balls to criticize parents of fallen soldiers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html?smid=tw-share

So Trump got college deferments just like millions of Americans did, and? And the asshole that attacked Trump is a muslim activist and a lawyer specializing in bringing more muslims into the country. Trumps policies would hurt his business so he wasn't just some grieving father, he has a financial conflict of interest with Trumps proposals.

 

[Neotrotsky]

At least he did not lie to get a deferment and then skip the country like Bill Clinton.

Becoming a Rhodes Scholar can hardly be called skipping the country.

tell that to the poor kid that had to go to Vietnam in his place

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

A new piece examines how Donald Trump dodged the Vietnam War via deferments and a booboo on his foot, yet he still has the balls to criticize parents of fallen soldiers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html?smid=tw-share

"yet he still has the balls to criticize parents of fallen soldiers."

Except he didn't, that's just the Leftist Echo Chamber Memo. The Donald asked why Mrs. Khan didn't also make some comments, I mean it's to be expected that at such an event as being invited to make comments to a political convention, that BOTH parents might speak.

Only Mr. Khan spoke, Mrs. Khan stood there looking subservient.

The Donald asking why Mrs. Khan didn't make any comments isn't "criticising", it's asking a question.

However, Mr. Khan then went on a MSM campaign whistlestop tour and launched a full-on trashing of The Donald, so then The Donald responded to that and he had every right to respond.