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Donald Trump received a medical deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1968 for “bone spurs” in his heels, a fact reported in contemporary and retrospective coverage . Multiple lines of reporting and tes...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam era — four student deferments and a medical classification that ultimately kept him from service — a factual core confirmed across contem...
Donald Trump received : four student deferments while enrolled in college and one medical deferment that produced a 4‑F classification, citing bone spurs in his heels. Claims that the medical defermen...
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 . ...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam era — four student deferments and a 1968 medical reclassification to 1‑Y tied to a diagnosis of heel bone spurs — a history confirmed in ...
Reporting and investigator accounts about ’s 1968 “bone‑spur” deferment converge on three facts: Trump was granted a medical deferment for heel spurs that year, the diagnosis has been linked in report...
The New York Times reported that the key evidence linking a Queens podiatrist to President Trump’s Vietnam-era bone‑spur deferment consisted mainly of interviews with the podiatrist’s daughters and pu...
Donald J. Trump is the primary high-profile public figure documented as having cited bone spurs to obtain a medical deferment from the Vietnam-era draft, receiving a 1‑Y medical classification for hee...