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Despite that fascination, Trump took multiple deferments to avoid service in the Vietnam War. When he became president, Trump staffed his cabinet with senior generals.
And while Barack Obama was just 12 years old when the Vietnam War draft ended, Donald Trump received four student deferments and a medical-leave deferment for bone spurs to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh reportedly avoided the Vietnam draft because of anal cysts. In a 2011 book critical of Limbaugh, journalist John K. Wlson wrote, "As a man who evaded the Vietnam War draft with the help of an anal cyst, Limbaugh is a chickenhawk fond of making hyperbolic attacks on [liberal] foreign policy". [90]
A biographer of Trump said the president once showed him the bone spurs that got him out of the draft, but he "didn't see" any evidence of them.
Similarly, the Vietnam-era National Guard was seen by some as an avenue for avoiding combat in Vietnam, [117] although that too was less than foolproof: about 15,000 National Guardsmen were sent to Vietnam before the war began winding down. [117] Phil Ochs (1940–1976) was one of several countercultural figures to encourage draft evasion.
During the Vietnam War, 30% of wounded service members died of their wounds. [92] Around 30–35% of American deaths in the war were non-combat or friendly fire deaths; the largest causes of death in the U.S. armed forces were small arms fire (31.8%), booby traps including mines and frags (27.4%), and aircraft crashes (14.7%). [93]
An estimated 125,000 Americans left for Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, [97] and approximately 50,000 American servicemen deserted. [98] On January 21, 1977, United States president Jimmy Carter , a day after his assuming office, granted a full and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers (but not deserters who were on active ...
The daughters of Dr. Larry Braunstein, who died in 2007, allege that Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was the podiatrist’s landlord and that Braunstein made the diagnosis in return for easier ...