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Trump, the fortunate son of a multimillionaire real estate baron, took repeated steps to avoid serving in Vietnam.
Well, the Donald will bomb this and bomb that and fight Iran and Mexico, a real war-hawk. But when his time to serve came up, the guy had enough family dollars to get repeated student deferments and when those ran out he was classified as physically unfit to serve. Hmmm- makes you wonder.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/deferments-helped-trump-dodge-vietnam
mikeysnot
(4,758 posts)Trump is a coward war hawk.... aren't they all?
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)There wasn't a single Viet Cong attack against Alabama while he was on watch!
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uppityperson
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uppityperson
(115,681 posts)That's an odd way to try and fix things.
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uppityperson
(115,681 posts)multiple times.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Seriously though, wtf?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I hope he got his money's worth
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,201 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 14, 2015, 07:12 PM - Edit history (2)
But back to the topic at hand. Fortunate sons have no moral authority when the topic is benefits to veterans or when to go to war. Wealth privilege insulates them and their children so it's an academic exercise for them. Meanwhile, back in the rest of America we don't have that luxury. My brother and cousins went to Vietnam thanks to the draft. None of them wanted to go, none of them had the middle and upper income privilege to choose college or the national guard or JAG or even dodging to Canada.
So yes, I'll attack any and all fortunate ones when it comes to defense and VA issues.
As to his success in business, Trump was born on third base and thinks he earned a home run. Nothing special about it.
packman
(16,296 posts)and his father was the umpire.