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RandySF

(58,938 posts)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 10:17 AM Jul 2015

What Donald Trump was doing while John McCain was a prisoner of war

It was the spring of 1968, and Donald Trump had it good.

He was 21 years old and handsome with a full head of hair. He avoided the Vietnam War draft on his way to earning an Ivy League degree. He was fond of fancy dinners, beautiful women and outrageous clubs. Most important, he had a job in his father’s real estate company and a brain bursting with money-making ideas that would make him a billionaire.

“When I graduated from college, I had a net worth of perhaps $200,000,” he said in his 1987 autobiography “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” written with Tony Schwartz. (That’s about $1.4 million in 2015 dollars.) “I had my eye on Manhattan.”

More than 8,000 miles away, John McCain sat in a tiny, squalid North Vietnamese prison cell. The Navy pilot’s body was broken from a plane crash, starvation, botched operations and months of torture.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/20/what-donald-trump-was-up-to-while-john-mccain-was-suffering-as-a-prisoner-of-war/

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What Donald Trump was doing while John McCain was a prisoner of war (Original Post) RandySF Jul 2015 OP
John McCain is basically *exactly* as big an ass as Trump. I can't make these fine distinctions. nt Romulox Jul 2015 #1
McNasty can go to hell. Take the Rump with him. TwilightGardener Jul 2015 #2
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