Joe Biden’s Draft Record Looks a Lot Like Donald Trump’s. Do Democrats Care?Posted to Politics June 07, 2019 by Michael Graham
He was 6 feet tall and had an athlete’s build. He played football in high school and was active in sports throughout college. He spent one summer as a lifeguard at a local pool.
But after he graduated college in the spring of 1968 and became eligible for the draft and —possibly — combat duty in Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that let him avoid military service.
No, not bone spurs. Asthma. And his name was Joe Biden.
Just a few months before President Donald Trump received his now-infamous diagnosis of “bone spurs in the heels,†former high school football star Biden got the same 1-Y draft deferment for “asthma as a teenager.†It was one of five deferments Biden received (the same number as notorious GOP “draft dodger†Dick Cheney) and allowed him to avoid being drafted at the height of the war. ...
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