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Donald Trump received student and medical deferments during the Vietnam War draft, with the medical deferment being due to bone spurs in his heels.
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...
Donald Trump did receive a medical deferment during the Vietnam-era draft process: contemporaneous reporting and government records show he had four student deferments and a later medical classificati...
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 obtained four student deferments while in college and a subsequent medical deferment during the Vietnam-era draft process, a pattern documented across multiple contemporaneous records and...
Bone-spur deferments were a recognizable and repeatedly cited medical route for avoiding Vietnam-era service, often invoked in political rhetoric and reporting about high-profile figures . Contemporar...
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...
Donald J. Trump received four student deferments and a medical deferment during the Vietnam draft era; the specific medical condition cited in reporting and by his own accounts was bone spurs in his h...