TRUMP re: Vietnam: "I wasn't out in the streets marching saying I'm going to move to Canada..."

[kpete]

President Trump’s full answer to Piers Morgan on avoiding serving in Vietnam: “This isn't like I'm fighting against Nazi Germany, we're fighting against Hitler. And I was like a lot of people. Now I wasn't out in the streets marching saying I'm going to move to Canada...”

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[hibbing]

1. and the idiotic beat goes on n/t

[atreides1]

2. Uh huh!!!

Look he takes credit for giving tax payer money to an already bloated military system, that after 18 years still can't beat the Taliban!!!

[exboyfil]

27. Yep - Too bad Morgan didn't follow that thread

by asking so how much as a percentage of your wealth did you pay in federal taxes?

[randr]

3. No he would not make a stand then

and he continues to this day to pay others to lie for him

[irisblue]

4. No, he was busy having (lots) of sex during those years

Cadet BoneSpurs

[Achilleaze]

5. He (R) was too damn busy dodging the draft

to be on the street, or otherwise acting with integrity.

And now he and his republican wanker buddies routinely piss on the military, POWs, veterans, and our US Gold Star Families.

Screw you republicans and your stanky, decitful, cowardly republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Yes, because those people actually had some principles in their opposition.

You were just lazy.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. "just lazy". . .No, he was a greedy coward.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. What he said was dodging vd was his vietnam

[edbermac]

9. "Nobody heard of Vietnam" In 1968? Are you fucking kidding me?

1964:
Donald Trump became eligible for the draft on his 18th birthday (14 June 1964) and registered with the Selective Service System 10 days later. He received the first of four 2-S (college) deferments on 28 July 1964.

1965:
Trump received his second college deferment on 14 December 1965.

1966:
Trump’s previous deferment expired and he was reclassified 1-A (available for military service) on 22 November 1966. His 2-S deferment was renewed on 13 December.


1967:
No record.

1968:
Trump received his fourth and final college deferment on 16 January 1968. After graduating from Wharton, he was reclassified 1-A on 9 July 1968. Trump underwent an Armed Forces physical examination (with a result listed only as “DISQ”) on 19 September 1968 and was reclassified 1-Y (qualified for service only in time of war or national emergency) on 15 October 1968.

According to a statement from the Trump campaign, the 1-Y classification stemmed from Trump’s having bone spurs in both heels:

While attending the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School of Finance, Mr. Trump received a minor medical deferment for bone spurs on both heels of his feet. The medical deferment was expected to be short-term and he was therefore entered in the military draft lottery, where he received an extremely high number, 356 out of 365.
The details of that medical exemption remain unclear and controversial, and most draft-related government medical records from the Vietnam era were not preserved.

1972:

Despite the supposedly “short-term” nature of Trump’s disqualifying physical condition, on 17 February 1972 he was reclassified 4-F (not qualified for military service), presumably due to the abolishment of the 1-Y classification the previous year.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/08/02/donald-trumps-draft-deferments/



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_of_1968

[onethatcares]

20. 17 February 1972 I signed enlisted documents

and was rapidly deployed to Ft.Dix NJ to be introduced to my squad, platoon, company and related leaders.

I must have been nucking futz. My draft number was 252.

[watoos]

10. Trump never had bone spurs,

he faked a disability to get out of Nam. The doctor who wrote the bogus letter lived in a Trump apartment or something to that effect. He was beholding to Trump is some way regardless.

Funny how he could still play sports with those "bone spurs."

[Hassler]

11. Cadet Bonespurs, the Lying Lout.

[CurtEastPoint]

12. Billions HE gave? HIM? Fucker.

[gratuitous]

19. Saw that, too

It's like he wants people to think it's coming out of his own pocket!

[IcyPeas]

13. okay then...

perhaps when he is old enough your son Barron would like to sign up for the future war with Iran? or China, or Venezuela, or Luxembourg (JK about the last one)

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. LOL, the Luxembourgisch would probably greet them with lots of quetsch.

That plum brandy goes down so well.

[JI7]

14. notice he ignored mentioning the bone spurs

does he have it or did he lie ?

piece of shit

[bdamomma]

15. he was too busy

chasing skirts. What a POS he is.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. No, because your father had a leash on you and slapped you in front of classmates if you acted up.

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Making you cry. Niagara Falls, Donnie. Niagara Falls.



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[peggysue2]

17. Wow! Another example of the . . .

Slip & Slide. Never answer the question directly. Point to all those dirty hippies who marched in the street or the ones who left for Canada.

"The Bone Spur excuse was genius, I'm telling you. Genius! And I should know because I'm a very stable genius."

Who is he kidding? Trump fighting the Nazis? He's loves Nazis because he's sure there are very fine people who are Nazis.

He shames the U.S every frigging day and dishonors the men who fought, died on those beaches, in those trenches and burrows.

[kentuck]

18. As a Vietnam veteran, I am offended by his ignorant comments.

[Totally Tunsie]

21. Couldn't march IN the war; couldn't march AGAINST the war...

...those pesky bone spurs, and all.

Sometimes I think the enlisted really were better off not having tRump in their ranks. He'd be more of a hindrance than a help, and would probably require rescues, talk-downs and other patronizing treatment from his fellow soldiers so as not to endanger them all by his narcissistic recklessness.

[Trenzalore]

22. In Summary

I was against the war but didn't care as long as it was other kids dying in it not me.

Leadership.

[BlueStater]

24. No, you just lied about having a fake injury to avoid serving because you're a fucking coward.

The ones who went to Canada risked jail time for their principals. They had the sort of courage that a big-mouthed wuss like you could never hope to comprehend in a billion years.

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. WT ever loving F was that mess?

[SeaDoo]

26. So in other words "I didn't go and I didn't protest." Enough said.

[Chin music]

28. FUUCCKK YOU DON.

And that small cadre of russian sell-outs, you call your family.

[smirkymonkey]

29. What a disgusting, lying coward!

You were just too yellow, privileged and entitled to think you had to serve in a war - any war. You didn't oppose that war. If you did you would have been out in the streets with everyone else protesting. You knew your daddy could get you out of it and you took the easy way out as usual.

You are such a revolting, sickening, piece of shit. Other men took your place who weren't priveleged enough to buy their way out and who may have died, were wounded or suffered severely in other ways just because you were such a little entitled chicken-shit.

I wish you had gone. I am almost certain that you would have been shot by your own troops and we never would have heard of you

[unblock]

30. impressive. a statement from a politician that pisses *everyone* off.

[Snackshack]

31. "700 billion dollars I gave"....

Really?