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Uncle Joe

(65,543 posts) Wed Aug 29, 2018, 07:58 AM Aug 2018

Trump Says He Heroically Avoided Capture in Vietnam by Staying in U.S.

AMES, IOWA (The Borowitz Report)—Presidential candidate Donald Trump revealed a little-known episode of personal heroism from his youth on Saturday, telling an Iowa audience that he narrowly avoided capture in Vietnam by remaining in the United States for the duration of the war.

“The Cong were after me,” Trump said, visibly stirred by the memory. “And then, just in the nick of time, I got my deferment.”

The former reality-show star said he had never shared his record as a war hero before because “I don’t like to boast.”

He said that he only disclosed the episode now because “the way this nation treats our deferment veterans is a disgrace.”

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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-heroically-avoided-capture-in-vietnam-by-staying-in-u-s

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Trump Says He Heroically Avoided Capture in Vietnam by Staying in U.S. (Original Post) Uncle Joe Aug 2018 OP

Borowitz! FakeNoose Aug 2018 #1

Borowitz can distill a point better than anyone. marble falls Aug 2018 #2

One of his best .... CatMor Aug 2018 #3

That's a bigly stable genius for ya.. Permanut Aug 2018 #4

I love Andy Borowitz Gothmog Aug 2018 #5

I know deferments are unpopular now... LakeArenal Aug 2018 #6

I feel the same way it's not the deferments so much as Trump's rank hypocrisy Uncle Joe Aug 2018 #7

The difference is your brother doesn't claim the street cred needed to be CiC ... marble falls Aug 2018 #8

FakeNoose

(42,435 posts)

1. Borowitz!

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Wed Aug 29, 2018, 08:36 AM

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marble falls

(72,543 posts)

2. Borowitz can distill a point better than anyone.

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Wed Aug 29, 2018, 08:37 AM

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CatMor

(6,212 posts)

3. One of his best ....

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Wed Aug 29, 2018, 09:09 AM

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love him.

Permanut

(8,576 posts)

4. That's a bigly stable genius for ya..

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Wed Aug 29, 2018, 09:24 AM

Aug 2018

W had to go AWOL to accomplish the same thing.

Gothmog

(182,102 posts)

5. I love Andy Borowitz

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Wed Aug 29, 2018, 10:01 AM

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LakeArenal

(29,949 posts)

6. I know deferments are unpopular now...

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Wed Aug 29, 2018, 06:00 PM

Aug 2018

But every 18 year old I knew wanted one.
My husband was lucky because of a high lottery number. My brother suddenly had a heart mummer. We weren’t rich or buying his way out. My folks just did everything they could to get him out. His doctor agreed. They were proud and glad they did.

Neither of whom would claim they could command the military however.

Uncle Joe

(65,543 posts)

7. I feel the same way it's not the deferments so much as Trump's rank hypocrisy

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Wed Aug 29, 2018, 06:03 PM

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marble falls

(72,543 posts)

8. The difference is your brother doesn't claim the street cred needed to be CiC ...

Reply to LakeArenal (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:44 AM

Aug 2018

or go around belittling those who did serve without a draft hanging over them. The biggest reason I enlisted was so my dad wouldn't be able to shut me up at the dinner table discussing the war. And that was when I was twenty.

The poor don't get bone spur deferments or ass boil deferments like Rush Limbaugh did. We do what we have to do and we don't bray about it or lie.

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