| | | Sorry to hear that. Their hatred is so irrational, isn't it? I understand the attacks by the Establishment Elite. Trump is self-funding. This is not an insignificant fact. They cannot control Trump, so it means they will be on the outside if he achieves power. Very natural for them to use every dirty trick in the book to ensure they remain on the inside. Perfectly understandable--even if somewhat despicable.
But most of the hatred on SI has no rational basis whatsoever? Why do they repeat lies when a simple internet search can reveal the truth? Take the charge that Donald Trump was a draft dodger! TOO FUNNY!
I have not yet seen a single accusation made by the I Hate Trump people that was not a misrepresentation easily disproven with a bit of simple research. That is why Brumar banned me from his site after he made a dozen insult posts against me. He knows I use facts to counter bullshit. And his sort of opportunistic misrepresentation has no defense against the truth.
We are finding out that the people are not as stupid as the crooks and liars have hoped they would be. The people are seeing through the bullshit. The people are taking back their power and assuming their Constitutional Rights. It is about time.
The truth about "Donald Trump is a draft dodger"!
"To the best of our knowledge, no one has charged Trump with violating the Selective Service law. His student deferments were routine. And unless someone has new information, there is no legal issue with his medical deferment." Thanks to a 2011 Freedom of Information Act request by the website TheSmokingGun.com, Trump’s Selective Service record is available to anyone.
The 2-S classifications are Trump’s student deferments. The first two covered his time at Fordham University in the Bronx, and the second two allowed him to stay in school when he transferred to study business at the University of Pennsylvania.
At the time, as Tigar wrote in his 1969 article, any college student who asked could get a student deferment. When he graduated in 1968, Trump’s classification shifted to 1-A, or "available for service."
Had that stood, Trump would have been drafted.
But Trump had a physical exam in September 1968. He had taken one less than two years earlier that did not disqualify him for service as we can tell from his 1-A classification in July 1968. However, his second physical was followed in October with a new classification, 1-Y. That designation put him near the bottom of any call-up list. It meant he would only be drafted if there were a national emergency.
Until recently, the only detail on record about that shift was it was medically related. After his comments about McCain, Trump said it had to do with bone spurs in his heels. Trump reportedly was active in college sports, playing baseball, tennis and squash.
More on the medical deferment
Trump failed to mention his medical deferment when he told ABC News on July 19, 2015, that he was never drafted because the draft lottery went into effect and his birthday came with a high number.
"If I would have gotten a low number, I would have been drafted. I would have proudly served," he said. "But I got a number, I think it was 356. That’s right at the very end. And they didn't get -- I don’t believe -- past even 300, so I was -- I was not chosen because of the fact that I had a very high lottery number."
Late in 1969, the nation changed the selective service law to pick people through a random selection of birth dates. The very first drawing was on Dec. 1, 1969.
As TheSmokingGun.com website pointed out, the draft lottery came two months after Trump received his 1-Y classification. Essentially, even if Trump’s birthday, June 14, had been pulled first, he would not have been called to serve.
Trump’s memory served him well on one point. His number was indeed 356.
No law broken
To the best of our knowledge, no one has charged Trump with violating the Selective Service law. His student deferments were routine. And unless someone has new information, there is no legal issue with his medical deferment."
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