Posted on 12/26/2018 1:50:47 PM PST by Kaslin
Well, the liberal media is back at it again. What else is new? The Left hates Trump so much that were now re-litigating his bone spur diagnosis, which earned the young Donald Trump a pass from the draft during the Vietnam War. First, who cares? Whatever comes from this story won’t impact his presidency. He’s not going to resign over this, and his supporters surely won’t abandon him either. So, here’s the story, which cannot be verified in any way: the daughters of some podiatrist, who is now dead, say the bone spur diagnosis was a favor to Fred Trump to keep his son out of the war. What’s worst is that The Times admits there are no records to corroborate…anything (via NYT) [emphasis mine]:
In the fall of 1968, Donald J. Trump received a timely diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that led to his medical exemption from the military during Vietnam.
For 50 years, the details of how the exemption came about, and who made the diagnosis, have remained a mystery, with Mr. Trump himself saying during the presidential campaign that he could not recall who had signed off on the medical documentation.
Now a possible explanation has emerged about the documentation. It involves a foot doctor in Queens who rented his office from Mr. Trump’s father, Fred C. Trump, and a suggestion that the diagnosis was granted as a courtesy to the elder Mr. Trump.
The podiatrist, Dr. Larry Braunstein, died in 2007. But his daughters say their father often told the story of coming to the aid of a young Mr. Trump during the Vietnam War as a favor to his father.
“I know it was a favor,” said one daughter, Dr. Elysa Braunstein, 56, who along with her sister, Sharon Kessel, 53, shared the family’s account for the first time publicly when contacted by The New York Times.
Elysa Braunstein said the implication from her father was that Mr. Trump did not have a disqualifying foot ailment. “But did he examine him? I don’t know,” she said.
“What he got was access to Fred Trump,” Elysa Braunstein said. “If there was anything wrong in the building, my dad would call and Trump would take care of it immediately. That was the small favor that he got.”
No paper evidence has been found to help corroborate the version of events described by the Braunstein family, who also suggested there was some involvement by a second podiatrist, Dr. Manny Weinstein. Dr. Weinstein, who diedin 1995, lived in two apartments in Brooklyn owned by Fred Trump; city directories show he moved into the first during the year Donald Trump received his exemption.
OR#NYTimes runs piece sourced from anti-Trump daughters of a doc who is now dead with ZERO actual evidence any of it is true#Jounalism https://t.co/5hyNSaDKMJ— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) December 26, 2018
So, no one knows what is going on, and even if there was something to this story, who the hell cares? Say it’s true, let’s just entertain this garbage for a second, you’re meaning to tell me the bombshell is that the well connected and wealthy Trumps received a favor? I’m stunned. I’m shell-shocked…because the Kennedys, Bushes, or the Clintons never asked for favors on anything, right?
The daughters of a podiatrist, who’s dead, say this was a favor to the Trump family that cannot be verified and the only other solid lead, the alleged second podiatrist, is also dead. Sounds like this story was a drooling vegetable from the get-go.
“BRAUNSTEINS??? COHEN?? What is UP with the Jews HATING Trump?”
Right! No Christians hate Trump do they? You are very transparent.
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Did Trump’s father pull strings to keep him from being drafted? Very probably. As did Bush 41 for his son. Slick Willy also dodged the draft and I don’t recall the Times making a big deal out of it. Not saying any of it was right. But it was not unusual at the time. The bottom line is that it was almost a half century ago and it’s time to move on. I’ve got a few issues with all of the above listed POTUSes... how they evaded service in Nam aint on that list.
Sacred rule of confidentiality.
Those women should be ashamed to degrade their father's reputation like that.
1963, lost my student deferment, went ahead and enlisted, quit school, my job, closed the apartment, sold the car and books and showed up to the induction center on south Broadway.
Doc says to me “Someone has made a big mistake. You’re way over the height limit. You can’t be drafted and you can’t enlist. You don’t fit in a bunk, clothes and boots are all to small. All you can do is carry all the cigarettes when you cross a river. You are now 1Y. You can only be drafted if we declare war. Get out of here and go back to school.”
I’ll write the final update of the story.
Trump felt so bad about the episode that he vowed to do his service and worked his whole life to become the military’s top commander. He achieved that goal and we all lived happily ever after.
The End.
Every one of them...I saw many different pictures on different sites, and all you see is happy soldiers.
This calls for a special counsel. And it’s probably impeachable.
You know there has to be some work program that illegal male aliens in good health could be required to do while awaiting their asylum requests being processed. They could be housed in a tent city like Sheriff Arpaio did with prisoners. They may as well earn their keep. They had work programs during the depression to keep families in wages, there has to be something needing done now. No healthy individual should get a free ride.
Bush-43 was likable in person. But his Iraq war was a monstrous blunder. Without it, Iraq never falls to the Islamists, Libya never falls to ISIS, and we would have $6 Trillion LESS debt, not to mention Thousands of our young soldiers maimed and killed. Saddam never gave sanctuary to Osama. It was Pakistan who gave him shelter, while we paid Billions in aid to Pakistan. So fricking dumbya.
Thank you for your reply, and the incredible insight. I do believe that an honorable man like Col. Holmes thought that he was giving an opportunity to an ostensibly fine officer candidate during a time of national crisis.
But he, like much of the nation, were taken in by a slick talking con man from Little Rock.
I got my draft deferment honestly. I drew 360 for my draft number. As one student said to me (at the time), “They will draft women and children before you.”
ZIP IT SKIPPY!!!! I am married to a JEW and THIS is a comment from HIM!
Billy Bob and his “true love” Hillary were and are great manipulators of other human beings to their own benefit.
Donald Trump is NOW serving as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Services of the United States of America and there is no higher ranking than that! Case closed.
Meanwhile, at that time, Bill Clinton (Slick Willie) during an anti-war protest, was seen hanging out in a tree on Dickson Street in Fayetteville, naked as a jay bird.
An engineer I worked with, for a radio station interviewed him for a radio broadcast of the protest.
I love our President for many reasons but especially for how he supports the military. Last week, he went out in the pouring rain to thank the Wreathes Across America volunteers decorating veterans graves at Arlington Cemetar, and he was carrying his own umbrella,not having a serviceman do it! That is a real man.
Hippa laws from this type chatter
Can easily imagine the Marxist State Media pimps and whores breaking into the DC sewer system to try to get something on Trump .... “Hey Lester does this smell, taste, feel like Trump sh!t”?
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