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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Militaristic" Trump's Five Vietnam Draft Deferments -- 4 student and 1 medical
Trump is still on McCain. Trump opened this old can of worms today apparently:
Despite Donald Trumps claim this week that he avoided serving in the Vietnam War solely due to a high draft number, Selective Service records show that the purported presidential aspirant actually received a series of student deferments while in college and then topped those off with a medical deferment after graduation that helped spare him from fighting for his country, The Smoking Gun has learned.
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By the time his number (356) was drawn during the December 1, 1969 draft lottery, Trump had already received four student deferments and a medical deferment, according to military records on file with the National Archives and Records Administration. An extract of Trumps Selective Classification record, seen here, was provided in response to a TSG records request.
In fact, the December 1969 draft lottery occurred about 18 months after Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied business at the Wharton School. So, while claiming that he would never forget being at Wharton watching the draft numbers being drawn, the 64-year-old Trump seems to have misremembered, as candidates are fond of saying.
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The 1-Y classification came a month after Trump underwent an Armed Forces Physical Examination, according to Selective Service records, which note the results of the exam as DISQ. While the military records do not further detail why Trump was granted the 1-Y deferment, a 1992 biography of the businessman by journalist Wayne Barrett reported that Trump received a medical deferment following the September 17, 1968 exam.
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By the time his number (356) was drawn during the December 1, 1969 draft lottery, Trump had already received four student deferments and a medical deferment, according to military records on file with the National Archives and Records Administration. An extract of Trumps Selective Classification record, seen here, was provided in response to a TSG records request.
In fact, the December 1969 draft lottery occurred about 18 months after Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied business at the Wharton School. So, while claiming that he would never forget being at Wharton watching the draft numbers being drawn, the 64-year-old Trump seems to have misremembered, as candidates are fond of saying.
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The 1-Y classification came a month after Trump underwent an Armed Forces Physical Examination, according to Selective Service records, which note the results of the exam as DISQ. While the military records do not further detail why Trump was granted the 1-Y deferment, a 1992 biography of the businessman by journalist Wayne Barrett reported that Trump received a medical deferment following the September 17, 1968 exam.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/deferments-helped-trump-dodge-vietnam
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"Militaristic" Trump's Five Vietnam Draft Deferments -- 4 student and 1 medical (Original Post)
GreatGazoo
Jul 2015
OP
true but you wouldn't send others to war -- Trump just declared how much he wants to
GreatGazoo
Jul 2015
#6
Disparaging a war hero's service record by a deserter didn't hurt the GOP in 2004.
MohRokTah
Jul 2015
#5
democrank
(11,112 posts)1. Donald Trump and his other brother Cheney......chickenhawks.
All mouth, no action.
cloudbase
(5,531 posts)2. Let's see. . .
Trump didn't go.
Cheney didn't go.
W. didn't go.
Quayle didn't go.
Kerry went.
Gore went.
McCain went.
Hell, even Jane Fonda went.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)3. Romney, Ted Nugent, Limbaugh...
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)4. Honestly though
I don't blame people for not fighting in a clusterfuck like Vietnam, whether they got a deferment or was just a draft dodger.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)6. true but you wouldn't send others to war -- Trump just declared how much he wants to
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)5. Disparaging a war hero's service record by a deserter didn't hurt the GOP in 2004.
Why would it hurt Trump now?
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)8. because Trump attacked a *GOP* war hero PLUS attacked all POWs for 'getting themselves captured'
Kerry's service was a big problem for the GOP in 2004. They created Swiftboat to try and neutralize it.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)7. Guy's gonna get a lot of votes.
Cowards tend to associate with cowards.