Posted on 04/30/2011 6:36:30 PM PDT by ColdOne
After taking credit for President Obama releasing his long-form birth certificate to quell doubts about his citizenship, real estate developer Donald Trump may have to release his own records to address questions about his past.
Donald Trump, who claimed this week that a high draft number kept him from fighting for his country in Vietnam, actually received a series of student deferments while in college and a medical deferment after graduation, according to Selective Service records.
The Smoking Gun first reported the revelation after obtaining the paperwork from the National Archives and Records Administration. But it's still not known what medical problem Trump had or whether he still has it.
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“How about if traitors in our own country were to send the factories, assets and technology a foreign attacker would be seeking - to a communist nation for money?
Would you likewise, oppose that?”
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Of course I oppose that, but it has zero to do with the subject.
I might add, however, that buying from China is also in part due to the power of labor unions and restrictions that make production in America very difficult.
I also recognize that America could in no way expect Americans to compete with slave labor, and I could support high tariffs on products of “slave” labor.
I can absolutely assure you that that is a false statement. Many men volunteered for the Draft (2 years, instead of 3 years).
25% ok to start?
Just saying...
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
It’s not justifiable, and shouldn’t be dismissed as irrelevant. I don’t fault anyone for not wanting to go to war, but it’s not without dishonor for a fit individual to defer one’s sacrifice to another.
I know a couple of guys with Vietnam combat experience. Their stories are blistering, without any room for the good days. It ain’t right to know their sacrifices, and welcome dismissively those that took advantage of deferments. Unfortunately, this is an irreversible negative for Trump in my opinion. His heroics on the politics scene don’t wash history, but neither should history eclipse the truths he’s now championing.
From newsbusters:
On his Web site, BernardGoldberg.com, Goldberg chastizes Mapes:
However the complexities and seeming contradictions are interpreted, if Bush at any point had volunteered to fly combat missions in Vietnam – as the CBS investigation unequivocally states — how then could he have been a slacker? The clear answer is that he could not – unless, of course, he volunteered to go to Vietnam knowing full well he wouldn’t be taken. But if that was the case, Mapes would have had an obligation to report both that he volunteered and then produce a credible witness to say it was a sham. She did neither.
Mapes, a well-known liberal at CBS News, has always contended that she had no agenda, that she was not out to get President Bush. But if she knew that George Bush had volunteered for service in Vietnam – as the CBS outside panel clearly concludes — she obviously had an obligation to share that with her viewers.
Don’t forget the China thing. It destroys his credibility.
I looked up Trumps birthday and found 6/14/46. Then I looked up the lottery drawing for the first lottery in 1969 or maybe 1970 and found that 6/14 got a 356
Besides, the Vietnam war was overwhelmingly fought by volunteers anyway, it was not like WWII that was fought with few volunteers and mostly draftees.
Yup he strapped an F-102 to his A$$ for over 400 hours of flight in one of the most dangerous century series A/C we had at the time.
I joined the Air Force with the draft chasing my a$$ in 1966, BUT, I had set my goals for that service since I was 11 and the war had nothing to do with it. Most combat vets I meet say it doesn't matter where you served, you served, period.
Bush is also a blatant, stubborn globalist. Even going so far as to call those of us who believe in American border “Nativists”.
So what is the point of defending America first, then stubbornly refusing to enforce our borders?...
Series.
You believe sending American jobs, wealth and technology to China for money, is somehow honorable?
It’s not.
It’s treason. That’s your answer. Accept it or not.
Hoo boy, the oppo researchers are digging deep. Next thing you know they’re going to tell us he’s one of those disgusting rich people and that he’s been divorced several times.
I’m not a big fan of Trump’s, but if they want to put a dent in his approval they’ll have to find something stronger than what B.J. Clinton did. So he could dodge the draft, sell half our military secrets to the ChiComs, get Lewinskis from every supermodel and Playboy bunny he’s had on Apprentice while on the phone, kill off a couple of inconvenient associates, let a few more associates go to the hoosegow in his stead, and smoke weed like Tommy Chong in Amsterdam and he’d STILL be more acceptable than any Democrat.
“25% ok to start?
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Well, I have no idea. I have never studied it, but one thing I do know...
America will not likely return to the pre 70s days, when
most every town, regardless of how small it was, had at least
one factory producing something, be it hats, or a pair of Levis.
Today, it is hard to find ANY small town that has a factory, and there is not one single Levi plant left in America.
Ron Paul, flight surgeon, US Air Force 1963-1965, United States Air National Guard 1965-1968
I was in that first lottery.
Trump was in his fourth or fifth year of draft eligibility by the time he got that number, so it is the years before that lottery that count for Trump in the “draft” discussion.
The real question is, why did he never serve, draft or no draft, war or no war?
Gotta start somewhere.
I have heard exactly one. ONE politician in America today suggesting we start:
Donald Trump.
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