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The fact-check is about Donald Trump's draft deferments during the Vietnam War, specifically the medical deferment for bone spurs in 1968.
did not serve in the Vietnam War and obtained multiple Selective Service deferments during the 1960s, including a 1968 medical deferment for "bone spurs" that kept him out of service . While contempor...
did not serve in the War: he received multiple Selective Service deferments and a final medical exemption for that kept him out of the draft . Critics and fact-checkers characterize that outcome as “d...
Publicly available primary-source Selective Service paperwork establishes that received multiple college deferments in the 1960s and then a medical classification (1‑Y) in 1968, later reclassified to ...