Trump "dodging the draft"..................................................
Are deferments a "dodge"?
Legal deferments, issued by whomever issues them??
Is leaving the country to avoid being drafted a "dodge"? It was done by a Holy Demoncrap BTW............................. Bill Clinton....................
Trump and the draft dodge...............................
"After he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels."
I've had this............... it sucks. Walking isn't bad, I could run, but the next day after running, I could hardly walk for several days.
Trump and "dodging" the draft.....................................
"The diagnosis resulted in a 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service."
So................ a medical exemption from serving is a Draft Dodge?
Again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, how is it that Billy-boy Clinton was OK to be President after getting preferential treatment and help from a LOT of people avoiding the draft when he was rated 1-A while Donald Trump was rated 1-Y, by a DOCTOR due to foot problems, and he isn't OK to be president???????
Bill Clinton was the only man of his prime draft age classified1-A by that draft board in 1968 whose pre-induction physical examination was put off for 10.5 months. This delay was more than twice as long as anyone else and more than five times longer than most area men of comparable eligibility.Robert Corrado -- the only surviving Hot Springs draft board member from that period -- concluded that Clinton's draft statement (the long delays) was the result of "some form of preferential treatment." According to the Times, "Corrado recalled that the chairman of the three-man draft panel ... once held back Clinton's file with the explanation that 'we've got to give him time to go to Oxford,' where the semester began in the fall of 1968.Corrado also complained that he was called by an aide to then Senator J. William Fulbright urging him and his fellow board members to 'give every consideration' to keep Clinton out of the draft so he could attend Oxford.Throughout the remainder of 1968, Corrado said, Clinton's draft file was routinely held back from consideration by the full board.Clinton's Uncle Raymond Clinton personally lobbied Senator Fulbright, William S. Armstrong, the chairman of the three-man Hot Springs draft board, and Lt. Comdr. Trice Ellis, Jr., commanding officer of the local Navy reserve unit, to obtain a slot for Clinton in the Naval Reserve.Clinton secured a "standard enlisted man's billet, not an officer's slot which would have required Clinton to serve two years on active duty beginning within 12 months of his acceptance." This Navy Reserve assignment was "created especially for the Bill Clinton at a time in 1968 when no existing reserve slots were open in his hometown unit."According to the LA Times, "after about two weeks waiting for Bill Clinton to arrive for his preliminary interview and physical exam, Ellis said he called (Clinton's uncle) Raymond to inquire - 'What happened to that boy?' According to Ellis, Clinton's uncle replied - 'Don't worry about it. He won't be coming down. "It's all been taken care of.' "Fall 1968 - Because of the local draft board's continuing postponement of his pre-induction physical, Clinton is able to enroll at Oxford Univ. April 1969 - Clinton receives induction notice from the Hot Springs AR draft board. Clinton however claims that the draft board told him to ignore the notice because it arrived after the deadline for induction. July 11, 1969 - Clinton's friend at Oxford, Cliff Jackson, writes, "Clinton is feverishly trying to find a way to avoid entering the Army as a drafted private. I have had several of my friends in influential positions trying to pull strings on Bill's behalf."Clinton benefited from yet another lobbying campaign in order to evade this induction notice. Bill Clinton was able to get his Army induction notice canceled in the summer of 1969 after a lobbying effort directed at the Republican head of the state draft agency." Arrangements were made for Clinton to meet with Col. Williard A. Hawkins who "was the only person in Arkansas with authority to rescind a draft notice. ... The apparently successful appeal to Hawkins was planned while Clinton was finishing his first year as a Rhodes scholar in England. Clinton's former friend and Oxford classmate, Cliff Jackson said it was pursued immediately upon Clinton's return to AR in early July 1969 to beat a July 28 deadline for induction."August 7, 1969 - Clinton is reclassified 1-D after he arranges to enter the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas.
According to Cliff Jackson, Clinton's Oxford classmate, Clinton used the ROTC program to "kill the draft notice, to avoid reporting on the July 28 induction date, which had already been postponed. And he did that by promising to serve his country in the ROTC, number one, to enroll in the law school that fall ... and he never enrolled."Col. Eugene Holmes, commander of the University of Arkansas ROTC program, said Clinton was admitted after pressure from the Hot Springs draft board and the office of Senator J. William Fulbright (D-AR).In addition, records from the Army reveal that Clinton was not legally eligible for the ROTC program at that time. Army regulations required recruits to be enrolled at the university and attending classes full-time before being admitted to an ROTC program.Fall 1969 - Clinton returns to Oxford for a second year. Clinton was supposed to be at the Arkansas Law School (and join the ROTC) to Cliff Jackson, "Sen. Fulbright's office and Bill himself continued to exert tremendous pressure on Col. Holmes to get him [Clinton] to go back to Oxford." Thus:
Trump, "dodged the draft" with the "help" of a Dr. who diagnosed him with foot problems (painful foot problems). This makes him a bad man, a very bad man.
Clintoon, "dodged the draft" with the "help" of his uncle Raymond, Senator Fulbright, William S. Armstrong the chairman of the Hot Springs Draft Board, Lt. Comdr. Trice Ellis, Jr., commanding officer of the local Navy reserve unit, "influential" friends at Oxford University, Col. Willard A. Hawkins, Col. Eugene Holmes, commander of the Univ. of Arkansas ROTC program, and FINALLY President Nixon who suspended the then-current draft and demanded a lottery of 19-yr-olds only.
Clintoon is OK to be president, the guy with bad feet, isn't................................................... Go ahead and 'splain it Rinoman............................ I'll check back tomorrow.