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.
They NYT has become worse than the UK Gossip Tabs...............
was a drooling vegetable
The army recruiter gave me my pass- underweight. All I had to do to perpetuate my status is not gain weight. I had to go to the AF recruiter to get in. He was willing to fudge it a few pounds. I really did want to get in and go to SEA. I wasn’t doing me or anyone else any good in college and there was some interesting stuff going on in an exotic place and I wanted to go see. I did that.
Hearsay.
Next.
Ping.
The NYT takes unsubstantiated claims as truth...only if a Republican is the subject. Meanwhile, there is zero curiosity at the NYT regarding Hillary using the State Dept. as funnel for Clinton Foundation cash...
Where was all of this worry about escaping Vietnam service when William Jefferson Clinton was fornicator in chief? he was the beneficiary of deferrals that were as bogus as a $3 bill...
If this is true and they have a beef about this, perhaps they need to go after the guy who asked for the favor.
Not the person who received the favor.
We have milions of illegals invading our country with their kids, illegally coming here to squat out a brat, and they are celebrivictims by the libtard media.
But this. This is the moral outrage, a dad may have asked for a favor and returned that favor multple times, that may have kept his son from dying in a commie jungle.
This is what is considered news to the commies. They hate this man SO much they will make up stories, anything negative to hurt him. Meanwhile under Barack Obama, EVERY SINGLE SCANDAL was covered up, we never knew about it, because they were invested in protecting him
The daughters let the Times euchre then into casting aspersions on their dead father! This is the newspaper that I made the antagonist in my novel. They are—and long have been—an insult to the memory of honest journalists.
Clinton sent a Letter to the Draft Board when he was in England attending Oxford.
He told them he “loathed” the Military and he ends up becoming CIC. Only in America.
After Billy Boy Clinton deceived ROTC Instructor Col. Holmes to get his ROTC deferment, he reneged on that commitment after getting a high draft number. He then wrote Holmes a letter detailing as to how he “loathed the military.”
Clinton was an unapologetic, lying draft dodging POS. Even if Trump got a fraudulent 4-F deferment (which I don’t believe he did)He has never expressed anything but admiration, respect, and gratitude for the service that the armed forces does for this nation.
Besides, he fights for the best interests of this nation and it’s people of any POTUS that I can remember in the last 30 years or so, as it’s current Commander in Chief...
Of course, if POTUS had family members of a podiatrist who say he did, indeed, have such a diagnosis, but without proof, the media would call them liars. My advice to the President, either ignore them, or call them the liars that they most likely, are. (Liberals have ZERO problem with lying for political expediency -— therefore, they can NEVER be trusted to tell the truth).
My thought exactly. She is denigrating her own father as a bad doctor who would lie about a diagnosis.
If the NYT is so interested in Vietnam-era stories, perhaps they can do a scathing, in-depth expose on Jon Cary’s purple heart for getting a grain of rice lodged in one of his butt cheeks.
Muslims have no problem with lying to advance jihad, also! No wonder lying leftists like them so much!
If true it sounds like their Father colluded with Trump’s Father.
Thank goodness the Rats got the House back. It gives them another thing to Investigate.
And what about “stolen valor” Blumenthal?!? Where’s the NYT above-the-fold reporting on all of that?!?
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