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why do people accuse Trump of Draft Dodging when he didn't but praise Clinton when he actually did dodge the draft?

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Trump did dodge the draft. His father got a physician to give him a phony diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels so that he could get a medical exemption.

    The big difference between Trump and Clinton is how they felt about the war. There were four paths people could take wrt Vietnam. You could do what John McCain did and support the war and fight in it. You could do what Al Gore did and oppose the war but still fight in it. You could do what Bill Clinton did and oppose the war and not fight in it. All of those are morally defensible positions. Clinton dodge the draft, but he opposed the war. He didn't think anyone should be fighting in Vietnam. But Donald Trump, along with George W Bush, took the only morally indefensible stance: they all supported the war and didn't serve. Or, more accurately, they took steps to make sure they didn't have to serve. It would be one thing if, as Trump's campaign claimed at one point, that he just didn't happen to be called for the draft. You can support a war without having to volunteer to fight. But Trump and his family dodged the draft. They were fine with other people going over there and getting shot and killed, but poor little Donny wasn't going to be one of them.

  • Jeff S
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Yeah those bone spurs keep him off the golf course still!

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Who praised Clinton for dodging the draft?....

    The only reason people attack Trump for dodging the draft is because he attacked a POW war hero.... McCain... who wasn’t a draft dodger... unlike Bill Clinton AND Dotard Trump

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    It's the same reason why the Democrats called George W Bush "junior", when he wasn't "junior", but their guy, Albert Gore Jr. Was a "junior". I think they pretend to be dumb for the effect.

    I came to the realization that the Democrats treat voters like they were a sport fan. Whatever a Democrat says on television will be repeated by their fans. They don't typically have anything of their own to share, and they dare not ask their own side anything but softball questions.

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    liberal media terrorist org.

  • 2 years ago

    LOL...that's a rich question brought to you by:

    The party that has given you decades of "draft-dodger" accusations,

    The party that has criticized Democrats for covering for traitors,

    I could go on for a long time, but those were just a couple highlights of just how absolutely hillarious this is all going to be when the truth comes down on all those still hiding in the dark. ;) You can run on for a long time....etc.

  • 2 years ago

    Did he really gave bone spurs that prevented him from serving.

    If he had it then why didn’t he get treated for it. Bone spurs isn’t going to go away by itself without medical intervention.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Sure he had bone spurs, find out how many times he was treated for them after he got out of serving

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    it's called a 'double standard', one of the dems weapons .............................

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    The democrats are hypocrites. All Americans know this.

    If they didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

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