Afghanistan Vet Mayor Pete Buttigieg Says Trump Faked a Disability to Get Out of Vietnam

[babylonsister]

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Afghanistan Vet Mayor Pete Buttigieg Says Trump Faked a Disability to Get Out of Vietnam

Democratic hopeful said the president used his ‘privileged status’ to avoid the draft and send someone else to war in his place.
Scott Bixby
05.23.19 11:32 AM ET



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“I don’t have a problem standing up to somebody who was working on season seven of Celebrity Apprentice when I was packing my bags for Afghanistan,” he said.

Costa then asked Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, if Trump should have served.

“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,” Buttigieg replied. When Costa asked if Buttigieg believed that Trump “faked” the bone spurs in his heels to avoid the draft, the mayor rhetorically asked if “you believe he has a disability?”

As the audience chucked, Buttigieg protested that the dig was not meant as a joke.

“Needless to say, the way that [Trump] has treated and mocked disabled people is just one more example of the many affronts to basic decency that this president has inflicted on this country,” Buttigieg said, before refocusing on Trump’s Vietnam-era medical exemption.

“If he were a conscientious objector, I’d admire that,” Buttigieg said. “But this is somebody who, I think it’s fairly obvious to most of us, took advantage of the fact that he was the child of a multi-millionaire in order to pretend to be disabled so that somebody could go to war in his place.”

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[Achilleaze]

1. At least the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief* didn't shit his shorts like his republican buddy

NRA republican fake tuFFy-boy, Teddy Nugent. They both earned their status as republican chickenhawks the old fashioned republican way: lying.

* aka Dirty Donny (R)

[Blue Owl]

2. He didn't shit his pants...

But he did shit his DIAPER...

[keithbvadu2]

8. Tough talking poopy pants Nugent

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https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2012/04/21/ted-nugent-and-romney-the-cluck-cluck-gang-mama-does-their-fightin/

I’d make an incredible army man. I’d be a colonel before you knew what hit you, and I’d have the baddest bunch of motherf****n’ killers you’d ever seen in my platoon. But I just wasn’t into it. I was too busy doin’ my own thing, you know.”

[MasonDreams]

17. Ted, you have to, not just follow orders, but always put the welfare and saftey of others first.

You don't get promoted past private if you're an egocentric blowhard. Serving is an honor and a privilege, the person that does it well, has to have character. Go do your own thing, and quit showing it to nuns.

[customerserviceguy]

3. While everything Pete says is true

still, I cannot blame anyone for not wanting to die for nothing in Vietnam. I supported Bill Clinton even when those around me were calling him a draft dodger, feeling that military experience is not a necessary prerequisite for the presidency.

And as for the people who went to war in his place, I blame LBJ and Nixon for that.

[radical noodle]

4. There is a difference between someone who

avoided the draft and someone like trump who essentially made fun of those who served by saying that avoiding STDs was his Vietnam.

Most of those who avoided the draft for Vietnam seriously opposed the war. Trump only opposed being inconvenienced.

[customerserviceguy]

5. Yes

that was a very flippant and hurtful comment he made, no doubt about it.

But being drafted was not merely "inconvenient". It meant going off to very probably die in a war that the US had no damned business being in, and no effective plan to win decisively. I cannot fault anyone for wanting to preserve their life, no matter how selfish it looked at the time or today.

[radical noodle]

6. I don't disagree about Vietnam

but most young men didn't have the luxury of having his daddy buy him out of it.

[customerserviceguy]

9. Yes, that was his method

but many others used college as a way to get out of Vietnam. And grade inflation kept them there. I wasn't quite draft age, but very nearly so. I went into higher education with this phenomenon fully in place.

Trump has many, many more faults than this, we should focus on them.

[crazytown]

11. I would add, that those who were not drafted

didn't really know what sort of hell was waiting for them in SE Asia. My cousin was drafted. When he came back he wouldn't talk about it.

[radical noodle]

13. I'm a bit older than you

My friends and relatives were going to Vietnam (as a female, I was not eligible for the draft). My husband at the time was in the National Guard, which was only a barely honorable way to avoid the draft. I know there is still a lot of resentment from those who had to go against those who found a way out.

I totally agree, though. Trump has plenty of other stuff to pick on but this once again shows what a liar and cheat he is. I don't think any candidate should fail to be honest about his/her feelings if asked.

I hated the Vietnam War and still put a lot of blame on LBJ. The good things he did are always overshadowed by it.

[JI7]

12. then he should admit he was afraid of going to war and that's why he faked it

[radical noodle]

14. Exactly

Instead of pretending that he's tough and brave.

[keithbvadu2]

7. "A great and very brave soldier"

"A great and very brave soldier"

[JI7]

10. i do blame people like Trump who attacked the Khan Family , Mccain, Kneeling sports players

etc while wrapping his ugly ass in the flag .

[Maru Kitteh]

15. I loved it when Pete shot back at the interviewer "Do you think he HAS a disability?"

That was a devastating rejoinder.

[Politicub]

16. Trump views cheating and cons as sacraments

And feels blessed when he gets away with it.