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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 Wednesdays broadcast of CNNs Anderson Cooper 360° that you dont grow out of bone spurs. If Trump had them in the 1960s, Kerrey said, hed still have them now (unless he underwent surgery, which Trump has never mentioned).
The challenge followed Trumps 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 isnt what hes saying. He said I physically couldnt go. Well, Mr. President, get your feet X-rayed and lets see those bone spurs. I dont 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 didnt 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§ion=politics&utm_source=politics_fb&fbclid=IwAR1T2wBsf1WmPOCqs3jgqcm8qGQvz4PUGG4w2FAiCwiFFCEYlVCs1vfU6o0
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)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.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)will arrive the day after the tax returns show up.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)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.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)"Demand to see the MFer's feet X-rays"
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)it's already been shown that Trump's father bribed a doctor in NYC to give Lil Donny a fake bone spurs diagnosis.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,694 posts)rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Whats good for the goose...
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)Number9Dream
(1,562 posts)Senator Kerrey's comments should be covered by all the major media, but only Huffpost covers them.