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Draft-Dodger Trump Said Sleeping Around Was My ‘Personal Vietnam’
The Daily Beast ^ | February 16, 2016 | Tim Mak

Posted on 02/17/2016 5:32:11 AM PST by katieanna

Draft-dodger Donald Trump once said that the danger he faced from getting sexually transmitted diseases was his own “personal Vietnam.” In a 1997 interview with shock jock Howard Stern, Trump talked about how he had been “lucky” not to have contracted diseases when he was sleeping around. “I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world. It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era,” Trump said in a video that resurfaced Tuesday on Buzzfeed, “It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”


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To: Toespi

Did Trump actually dodge the draft? Did his daddy use his power/influence to position him in such a way as to dodge the draft?

Curious...anyone have info readily available. Being lazy.


121 posted on 02/17/2016 6:25:25 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: elhombrelibre

Your talking about Cruz right?????????????


122 posted on 02/17/2016 6:25:50 AM PST by AnnieO
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To: Pravious

“Hey!

Looky here! A scummy Trump hit piece!

PATHETIC LOSERS.”

Yup.


123 posted on 02/17/2016 6:27:42 AM PST by Canedawg ("I don't want your money, I want your vote." Trump 2016)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Nobody knows when they join if they will or won’t fight until they finish their time in the mnilitary. Just because you join during peacetime it does not mean there won’t be a war while you are in. Just because there is a war does not mean you will absolutely be sent to fight. BTW, we did do Desert Shield/Storm when Cruz was about 20.


124 posted on 02/17/2016 6:29:33 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Gaffer; Jim Robinson

Gaffer, I’ve been a member on FR a long time and rarely post as you can see. I have logged in of late because it is election season. I have no intent to upset anyone on here. Not you, not anybody. My perspective is that these men want something from us. They want us to put them in a position over us. The article is not a slap at you at all.

To Jim, hello. If FR does not allow postings from this paper, pull it as I wasn’t aware. Have a nice day.


125 posted on 02/17/2016 6:30:15 AM PST by katieanna
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To: katieanna

What B.S.!

How dare he compare the risks of war to the risks of indiscriminate sex!

That pampered blowhard wouldn’t last a day in a battlefield environment.


126 posted on 02/17/2016 6:30:20 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: Beagle8U

Sometimes even the blind squirrel finds the next president.


127 posted on 02/17/2016 6:30:36 AM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Durbin

He did spend time in the bush.


128 posted on 02/17/2016 6:30:51 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Gaffer
While I agree the title is inflammatory, It isn't the first to be hyperbolic or misleading, and some on this forum have even touted 'facts' which are not. From a general head count of those, the ones attacking Trump are in the minority.

I would think all here are mature enough to see through the hyperbole of the title and assess the article for what facts are present.

It would be difficult to post the statements made without posting the title, and I, personally, think those statements are important.

I am not a veteran, but most of my friends are. They would be singularly offended by the suggestion that there was a valid comparison between bedhopping and service in any branch of the military, in any capacity, especially equating licentious activities with service in Vietnam.

129 posted on 02/17/2016 6:31:35 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3397910/posts


130 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:05 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel ("God only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defence." (Psa 62:2))
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To: Renegade
Guess Libs forgot what Clintoon did!( and sleeping around was his personal Vietnam also)

How can you not see the error in your logic here?

WE (conservatives) haven't forgotten about Clinton's lechery. Not only have YOU forgotten but you are currently turning a blind eye to another lech. WE (conservatives) are not the ones being inconsistent. YOU are the one being like the Libs you are condemning.

131 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:11 AM PST by nitzy (I don't vote for Republican'ts)
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To: Tax-chick

You can’t debate the merits of the issue, so you call names. How Islamic of you...


132 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:18 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: katieanna

This reads like most of the crap that’s been coming across my stupid facebook feed for the last few weeks.

Like the man said, Bless your little heart...


133 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:20 AM PST by Augie
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To: tacticalogic

And he was in his mid twenties when he moved to canada from the states. Maybe he didn’t want to take the chance of being drafted in the 60’s. I wonder if he even registered for the draft after gaining political asylum.


134 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:27 AM PST by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright; dforest; katieanna

Ted Cruz was 28 when we entered Afghanistan, 29 when we entered Iraq. He could have served had he chosen to. At the least he could have joined the Guard or Reserves.

It doesn’t matter whether he joined or not as far as I’m concerned, no one was or is required to, not since the draft ended in the 1970’s. And even with the draft, deferments were easy to come by.

So this whole lack of military service argument to discredit presidential candidates is just so much Bravo Sierra. Only a relatively small percentage of American men ever put on the uniform. We can and should honor those who served, but let’s not dishonor those who didn’t.

Smooth
Vietnam 68-69


135 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:55 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: katieanna

You know what’s worse than sleeping around? Betrayal.

That the current ‘conservative’ stalwarts in congress couldn’t wait until the votes were counted to shove the shiv in all our backs.

I know Trump isn’t a social conservative. At this point I don’t care.


136 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:58 AM PST by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: Pravious
Looky here! A scummy Trump hit piece! PATHETIC LOSERS.”

LOL! You're just mad because it wasn't a scummy Cruz hit piece.

Keep in mind there is probably an anti-trust law somewhere about Trumpettes monopolizing the scummy hit piece market.

137 posted on 02/17/2016 6:33:53 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: katieanna
This will all come out after the primary.

So many "conservative" suckers.

138 posted on 02/17/2016 6:34:05 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: katieanna

"WHO THE FC-K CARES!"


139 posted on 02/17/2016 6:34:07 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: HandyDandy

I wondered why the squirrel just sat there, now I know. It’s because he’s blind!


140 posted on 02/17/2016 6:34:11 AM PST by Beagle8U (Trumpanzees Lives Matter!)
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