Trump's incredible vanishing heel spurs

Jason Bourne · Jul 4, 2017

You'll recall that Dear Leader Trump was granted several deferments during the Vietnam War so that he could avoid being drafted into the military. The excuse? Heel spurs and college deferment..

Of course when questioned about his deferment Trump claims memory loss.

Back in 1968, at the age of 22, Donald J. Trump seemed the picture of health.

He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.

But after he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels.

The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 300,000 men into the military that year.

The deferment was one of five Mr. Trump received during Vietnam. The others were for education.

His experience during the era is drawing new scrutiny after the Muslim American parents of a soldier who was killed in Iraq publicly questioned whether Mr. Trump had ever sacrificed for his country. In an emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, the soldier’s father, Khizr Khan, directly addressed Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, saying, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.” Mr. Trump’s public statements about his draft experience sometimes conflict with his Selective Service records, and he is often hazy in recalling details.

In an interview with The New York Times last month, Mr. Trump said the bone spurs had been “temporary” — a “minor” malady that had not had a meaningful impact on him. He said he had visited a doctor who provided him a letter for draft officials, who granted him the medical exemption. He could not remember the doctor’s name.

“I had a doctor that gave me a letter — a very strong letter on the heels,” Mr. Trump said in the interview.

Mr. Trump said that he could not recall exactly when he was no longer bothered by the spurs, but that he had not had an operation for the problem.

“Over a period of time, it healed up,” he said.

In the 2015 biography “The Truth About Trump,” the author, Michael D’Antonio, described interviewing Mr. Trump, who at one point slipped off a loafer to display a tiny bulge on his heel. And during a news conference last year, Mr. Trump could not recall which heel had been involved, prompting his campaign to release a statement saying it was both.

Mr. Trump, who has hailed his health as “perfection,” said the heel spurs were “not a big problem, but it was enough of a problem.”

“They were spurs,” he said. “You know, it was difficult from the long-term walking standpoint.”

In December, his longtime personal physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, announced that Mr. Trump had “no significant medical problems” over four decades and that, if elected, he “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Dr. Bornstein made no mention of the bone spurs but did note the appendectomy from Mr. Trump’s childhood.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html

Bone spurs, yeah, right. Trump was a damned coward who likely had daddy buy his way out of military service.

Everytime I see him offer a half-assed salute to the enlisted staff on Marine One I cringe.

Cheers and Happy 4th of July,
Jason Bourne

Guno · Jul 4, 2017

1968 I was 18 and joined the military spent two tours in nam' -69' and 71'after I was honorably discharged I become a leftist after seeing the criminality of that war

trump was, and is scum

Jason Bourne · Jul 4, 2017

Guno said: ↑

1968 I was 18 and joined the military spent two tours in nam' -69' and 71'after I was honorably discharged I become a leftist after seeing the criminality of that war

trump was, and is scum
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Thanks for serving. Too bad that we didn't get much of a welcome home.

I spent two tours in Vietnam. 67 through 70. First was with Bravo and Delta Troops, 2/7th Cav, 1st Cav (Airmobile). Second tour was as a Pathfinder with 11th Aviation. I was discharged as an E-6. The thing was when I enlisted I was missing my right big toe due to an accident. But I went in and the Army had no problem with my missing digit.

Cheers and Happy 4th of July,
Jason Bourne

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