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[David Lockmiller]

(07-10-2019 12:34 AM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  President Trump did not have five medical deferments for a bone spur in his foot. He had four college deferments and one medical deferment from a military doctor for bone spurs in both feet.

Trump made up injury to dodge Vietnam service, his former lawyer testifies

Military Times story by Leo Shane III, February 27,2019

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump acknowledged to advisors that he made up a fake injury to avoid military service, because “I wasn’t going to Vietnam,” his former lawyer told lawmakers during testimony on Wednesday.

Michael Cohen, who also worked as a fixer for Trump before his election, said he was tasked with tamping down criticism of the military deferment as the presidential candidate simultaneously mocked Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, for being regarded as a military hero. “I like people who weren’t captured," Trump said during a July 2015 interview.

“Mr. Trump claimed (his medical deferment) was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery,” Cohen told members of the House Oversight Committee. “He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment.

“He finished the conversation with the following comment: ‘You think I'm stupid, I wasn't going to Vietnam.’”

Kate, what is the source of your information that Trump received "one medical deferment from a military doctor for bone spurs in both feet?"

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(07-10-2019 10:07 AM)L Verge Wrote:  This is not for David's attention, but I was teaching during Viet Nam (one of Gen. Westmoreland's nieces was a student), and our school was right next to Andrews AFB, so many of the parents were deployed to the war zone. Try explaining the actions of some of the U.S. public to those students (all were teenagers). I am happy to hear that David did undergo the draft and basic training and that he did not get combat duty. That leaves him here so that I can disagree with him.

That's my job . . . to disagree with you when you are wrong.