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The record shows Donald Trump received a medical deferment in 1968 for "bone spurs" in his heels that disqualified him from the Vietnam draft (reported in multiple outlets) and that in late 2018 the N...
Donald Trump’s 1968 medical deferment for “bone spurs” remains contested: contemporaneous reporting and later accounts show a legitimate-seeming diagnosis on official Selective Service records, but la...
The publicly available evidence that played a role in President ’s 1968 rests primarily on interviews with Braunstein’s two daughters and reporting by , which relayed their account and related propert...
published a detailed report recounting interviews with the daughters of a podiatrist, saying their late father, , told family members he had diagnosed with as a favor to , the building’s landlord, a c...
Reporting identifies a single, specific thread of evidence tying a podiatrist, , to the 1968 that exempted from : the recollections of Braunstein’s two daughters and property records showing he rented...
Reporting ties a podiatrist, , to ’s 1968 “” medical deferment chiefly through investigations and contemporaneous city records showing Braunstein rented office space from ; Braunstein’s daughters have...
The New York Times reported that a Queens podiatrist, Dr. Larry Braunstein, may have provided the heel‑spur diagnosis and supporting paperwork that produced one of Donald Trump’s Vietnam‑era medical d...
The Queens podiatrist identified in reporting as linked to President Trump’s 1968 “bone‑spur” diagnosis is Dr. Larry Braunstein, whose daughters told The New York Times that he signed the medical pape...