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Judi Lynn

(160,601 posts)
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 09:00 AM Aug 2017

Chicken hawk piece of trash: Vets unload on Trump for attacking Dem senators military record

Source: Raw Story


Brad Reed
07 AUG 2017 AT 11:34 ET

President Donald Trump on Monday once again attacked Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) for misrepresenting his military record.

“Never in U.S. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal,” wrote Trump on Twitter, referring to Blumenthal’s admission that he never actually served in Vietnam in the 1970s, despite statements he made suggesting otherwise. “He told stories about his Vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child.”

While Blumenthal has publicly apologized for claiming that he served in Vietnam, he did actually enlist in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, where he served from 1970 to 1976.

Trump, meanwhile, was granted four deferments on the draft while he was studying at Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania, and then was subsequently medically disqualified during an armed forces physical examination for supposed bone spurs in his feet, although no records exist to verify this claim.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/chicken-hawk-piece-of-trash-vets-unload-on-trump-for-attacking-dem-senators-military-record/

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Chicken hawk piece of trash: Vets unload on Trump for attacking Dem senators military record (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2017 OP
Excellent comments! mobeau69 Aug 2017 #1
Thanks for sharing. lark Aug 2017 #2
Is it just me- WhoIsNumberNone Aug 2017 #3
that's kind of how I read it too.... dhill926 Aug 2017 #5
Four deferments and a "bone spur" disqualification flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #4
While being the "greatest baseball player in New York state"... Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #6
+1000. Mc Mike Aug 2017 #10
Trump bragging that avoiding STDs was his personal VN keithbvadu2 Aug 2017 #7
In other words, never in U.S. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Donald Trump dalton99a Aug 2017 #8
Show us your medical records, trump---right after you show us your tax returns. Grammy23 Aug 2017 #9

lark

(23,147 posts)
2. Thanks for sharing.
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 09:28 AM
Aug 2017

I love to read the tweets from veterans showing they have more sense than to support the chicken hawk pretending to be in charge and his fake patriotism that only applies to anyone not in his family. His family are perfectly fine to be chickens. They do not walk the talk, quite the opposite and I love to see our military people not get taken in with typical repug lies.

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
3. Is it just me-
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 09:58 AM
Aug 2017

-or does it seem like Trump is more contemptuous of him for asking forgiveness than for lying about it in the first place?

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
4. Four deferments and a "bone spur" disqualification
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 10:40 AM
Aug 2017

Too chickenshit, and too big of a pussy to serve himself, has the nerve to attack someone who did serve for six years.

Vets are right to be pissed. Their mantra should be "We served, where were you?"

Mc Mike

(9,115 posts)
10. +1000.
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 06:26 PM
Aug 2017

He's on the record with writer Mike D'Antonio as saying "I loved to fight. I always loved to fight. All types of fights. Any kind of fight. I loved it, including physical, and I was always the best athlete. Something that nobody knew about me."

He loved to fight, unless it was going to fight in Vietnam. And he never let his bone spurs interfere with his athletics schedule when he was in school, or stop him from golfing and tennis playing, to this day.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
9. Show us your medical records, trump---right after you show us your tax returns.
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 04:10 PM
Aug 2017

I am sure there is documentation of your "bone spurs" and the treatment you had for them since you apparently no longer suffer with them. I've had bone spurs in my knees and in my neck and can attest that they are painful. I've had both knees replaced so the issues with my knees have been fixed. What did trump have done to/for his spurs?? Do tell us, Donnie-boy. Do tell!

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