Donald J. Trump’s 4 Military Deferments versus Joseph Biden’s 5 Military Deferments. THE TRUTH: Both Avoided Military Service; the Bold Liar versus the Eloquent Liar!

 

HOW THE WEALTHY AVOID TAXES, MILITARY SERVICE & AVOID SAYING “ IN GOD WE TRUST.” 

DID DONALD J. TRUMP AVOID THE MILITARY DRAFT FIVE (5) TIMES; AKA, MILITARY SERVICE?

Facts versus Truth

• President Donald Trump did receive five (5) military draft deferments, or five times — once for bad feet and four times for college.

• Thanks in part to five (5) military deferments, Mr. Trump did not serve in Vietnam.

• Why the rich, and others like Donald J. Trump avoids military service and abuse and uses military deferments far too often.  Five is greater than four on any day!

“ Donald J. Trump, center, as a high school senior in 1964 at the New York Military Academy. Mr. Trump used five military deferments to serve” 

GENERATION OF COWARDS OR GENERATION OF AVOIDANCE? YOU CHOOSE

More than 15 million men of Donald J. Trump’s generation sought to avoid active-duty military service, including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, and Dan Quayle. Up to 60 percent of men in the Vietnam generation took active measures to qualify for a deferment from the draft, while up to 90 percent of enlistments in the National Guard were draft-motivated by 1970. The idea that a privileged young man’s father may have leveraged connections with a local medical professional—who just happened to rent office space in a Trump building—to get a medical excuse for his son seems, as a renowned military historian has quoted. 

During World War II, government agencies and private corporations launched a massive propaganda campaign to promote the importance of soldiering. Organizations from the War Department to the American Red Cross to Coca-Cola used heroic imagery to equate military service with masculine strength. On a wider scale, such imagery was necessary because neither the federal government nor private interests could persuade Americans that they should fight out of political obligation.

Many men of military age internalized the messages that connected manhood with military service. Veterans who have given oral histories repeatedly return to the theme of joining up to become men.

In the 2015 biography “The Truth About Trump,” the author, Michael D’Antonio, described interviewing Mr. Trump, who at one point slipped off a loafer to display a tiny bulge on his heel. And during a news conference last year, Mr. Trump could not recall which heel had been involved, prompting his campaign to release a statement saying it was both.

Mr. Trump, who has hailed his health as “perfection,” said the heel spurs were “not a big problem, but it was enough of a problem.”

“They were spurs,” he said. “You know, it was difficult from the long-term walking standpoint.”

• In December, his longtime personal physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, announced that Mr. Trump had “no significant medical problems” over four decades and that, if elected, he “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Dr. Bornstein made no mention of the bone spurs but did note the appendectomy from Mr. Trump’s childhood.

•  The Deferment meant that Mr. Trump, who had just completed the undergraduate real estate program at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, could follow his father into the development business, which he was eager to do.

Donald J. Trump’s Military Deferment Refuted By A National Archives Record

• Donald Trump’s Selective Service Records According to the National Archives.

For many years, Donald J. Trump asserted that it was “ultimately” a high draft lottery number that kept him out of the Vietnam War, rather than a medical condition. But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise.

Mr. Trump had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery commenced in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number. The Times has created a composite image from scans of the document from the National Archives.

JOE BIDEN RECEIVE FIVE (5) MILITARY DEFERMENTS

Joe Biden’s Draft Record Looks a Lot Like Donald Trump’s. Do Democrats Care?

Joe Biden at age of 26, after he graduated college in the spring of 1968 and became eligible for the draft and —possibly — combat duty in Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that let him avoid military service.

• No, not bone spurs like Donald J. Trump; but Asthma.

And his name was Joe Biden.

Just a few months before President Donald Trump received his now-infamous diagnosis of “bone spurs in the heels,” former high school football star Biden got the same 1-Y draft deferment for “asthma as a teenager.” It was one of five deferments Biden received (the same number as notorious GOP “draft dodger” Dick Cheney) and allowed him to avoid being drafted at the height of the war. The year 1968 was one of the bloodiest of the Vietnam conflict with 296,406 Americans drafted into military service — the second-highest during the war.

DID BIDEN DODGE THE DRAFT? YES...5 TIMES

There’s no denying that, by all appearances, the Joe Biden of 1968 was the picture of health.  During his time at Archmere Academy, Biden excelled at sports.  And while he once falsely claimed he played for the University of Delaware football team, he considered playing on the team (he chose to focus on his double-major in history and political science instead, he says) and he was active in intramural sports.

As the Associated Press noted in 2008, “Promises to Keep,” Biden’s best-selling memoir,  “never mentions his asthma, recounting an active childhood, work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school.”

DONALD J. TRUMP, THE BOLD LIAR versus JOSEPH BIDEN, THE ELOQUENT LIAR

After research both presidential candidates. Mr. Clayborn started laughing. Why? Our choice for the office of the president is based upon:

1. The Bold Liar; aka, Donald J. Trump's four military deferments; versus

2. The Eloquent liar; aka, the Joseph Biden, with five (5) military deferments. 

I guess Joe Biden has been influenced too much by Barack H. Obama Biden with his eloquent lying. For example; when Barack H. Obama said: “I’m evolving on same-sex marriage...that’s an eloquent lie. If you are a man or a woman of convictions; your convictions don’t change. If you believe in something that usually is concrete; meaning we all have principles, customs, and beliefs, we hold and share all of our lives-good or bad. More Notably, If you are deceitful, cunning and a liar...your convictions and principles change daily, seasonally, or situationally.

REAL PRINCIPLES DON’T CHANGE...THEY ARE FOUNDATIONAL FOOTINGS

• Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13: 8

 Joe Bid frequently tells the story of his decision to spend a summer home from college working as the only white lifeguard at a pool predominately used by black residents. His goal was to learn more about the community, in part because he already had political ambitions.

One incident from that summer stands out: How Biden had to wrap a six-foot length of metal chain around his arm to face off against a knife-wielding local tough who went by the name “Corn Pop.”

“You might cut me, Corn Pop, but I’m going to wrap this chain around your head before you do,” Biden told him. Strong words, but he was a healthy, high school football player who could back them up. Biden and Corn's Pop resolved their differences without violence and, according to Biden, became poolside friends.

Just six years later, at the height of the fighting in Vietnam, that same poolside athlete avoided mandatory military service due to “asthma as a teenager.”

“ In God We Trust,” On Money and Its History”

"In God, We Trust", also "In God we trust", is the official motto of the United States of America and of the U.S. state of Florida. It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, supplanting E Pluribus Unum, in use since the initial 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States.

History of 'In God We Trust'

 

The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize the Deity on United States coins. From Treasury Department records, it appears that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861. It was written to Secretary Chase by Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania, and read:

Dear Sir: You are about to submit your annual report to Congress respecting the affairs of the national finances. One fact touching our currency has hitherto been seriously overlooked. 

• I mean the recognition of the Almighty God in some form on our coins.

You are probably a Christian. What if our Republic were not shattered beyond reconstruction? Would not the antiquaries of succeeding centuries rightly reason from our past that we were a heathen nation? What I propose is that instead of the goddess of liberty we shall have next inside the 13 stars a ring inscribed with the words PERPETUAL UNION; within the ring, the all-seeing eye, crowned with a halo; beneath this eye, the American flag, bearing in its field stars equal to the number of the States united; in the folds of the bars the words GOD, LIBERTY, LAW.

This would make a beautiful coin, to which no possible citizen could object. This would relieve us from the ignominy of heathenism. This would place us openly under the Divine protection we have personally claimed. From my heart,

I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters.

In December 1863, the Director of the Mint submitted designs for a new one-cent coin, two-cent coin, and three-cent coin to Secretary Chase for approval. He proposed that upon the designs either OUR COUNTRY; OUR GOD or GOD, OUR TRUST should appear as a motto on the coins. In a letter to the Mint Director on December 9, 1863, Secretary Chase stated:

• I approve of your mottoes, only suggesting that with the Washington obverse the motto should begin with the word OUR, so as to read OUR GOD AND OUR COUNTRY. And on that with the shield, it should be changed so as to read: IN GOD WE TRUST.

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