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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 31, 2019, 01:48:27 pm
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Democratic attacks on Trump and Vietnam open door to scrutiny of Biden avoiding draft
by Emily Larsen
| May 31, 2019 12:05 AM
Two veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination have taken aim at President Trump over his four Vietnam draft deferments for being a student and a medical one in 1968 for a bone spur.
But their ultimate target might be Joe Biden, the early Democratic front-runner who avoided Vietnam service in a strikingly similar way by securing five student deferments and a medical one in 1968 due to childhood asthma.
“I have a hard time believing any major candidates will attack Biden directly on the issue,†Democratic strategist Brad Bannon told the Washington Examiner, “but they could be trying to raise it subliminally.â€
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a Navy veteran of Afghanistan, last week accused Trump of draft dodging. "I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam," he said.
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