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American politician, military officer, and presidential candidate (1936–2018)
Donald Trump received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam-era Selective Service process — four for college and a fifth for a medical diagnosis (bone spurs) — and therefore did not serve in Vi...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era: four student (educational) deferments while in college and a later medical deferment for bone spurs that made him 4‑F, which tog...
Conservative activist groups and right‑wing commentators have used "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) as a political cudgel against many Republican officeholders since 2010, frequently targeting senator...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era: four student deferments and one medical deferment for bone spurs, and he was assigned a high lottery number that made him unlike...
Donald Trump publicly disparaged John McCain’s Vietnam-era military service in 2015, saying He also accused McCain of having “done nothing” for veterans and called him a “loser,” remarks that produced...
President Donald Trump’s most widely cited, specific comment about a war veteran is the line made in reference to Senator John McCain, a Vietnam-era prisoner of war; that exact wording appears in repo...
Donald Trump publicly criticized John McCain’s military service and status as a prisoner of war, saying “He’s a war hero because he was captured… I like people that weren’t captured,” and calling McCa...
The U.S. Constitution requires a president to be a "natural born Citizen," at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years . Legal and scholarly sources agree that "natural born" means citizen...
Donald J. Trump has been reported to have made multiple disparaging remarks about U.S. service members, including specific lines that referred to captured or killed veterans as “losers” and “suckers,”...
Donald Trump’s most-cited 2015 remarks about Senator John McCain were that made while criticizing McCain’s Vietnam-era POW status; those lines have been repeatedly cited as damaging to Trump’s standin...
Donald J. Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam era — four for college and a fifth in 1968 recorded as a medical deferment for heel bone spurs that made him ineligible for service . ...
The assembled analyses identify two competing narratives: one set of sources documents multiple instances where Donald Trump publicly military service and veterans across several years, while another ...
The Constitution’s Article II natural‑born‑citizen requirement was adopted in 1787 to limit foreign influence on the presidency and has repeatedly produced legal and scholarly disputes over its origin...
Donald Trump’s most quoted remark—“He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured”—was made as a 2015 Republican presidential candidate at the Family Leadership Summit in...
Yes: Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era — four student deferments and one medical classification tied to bone spurs in his heels — actions that, combined with other...
Donald Trump has directly criticized specific veterans and veterans-speaking-turned-lawmakers most recently by labeling a video by Democratic veterans in Congress “seditious behavior,” and he has a lo...
Donald Trump’s remark that John McCain was “not a war hero” (or variants such as “I like people who weren’t captured”) was made at a conservative forum in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2015 — the Family Lea...
Available reporting shows Donald Trump has a documented history of making disparaging or controversial comments about veterans and military figures, including reported labels like “suckers” and “loser...
Discharge petitions have rarely produced laws in modern Congresses: scholars count fewer than a dozen successful petitions since 1935 that led to floor action, and some accounts say only a very small ...
Donald Trump’s July 2015 Iowa remarks about Senator John McCain — including the line “I like people that weren’t captured” and assertions that McCain “has done nothing” for veterans — ignited a sustai...