Trump (according to Michael Cohen): "You think I'm stupid, I wasn't going to Vietnam"

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13. TRUMP IS A COWARD THE TRUTH IS HERE :::

In his prepared remarks before answering questions before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, Cohen described how Trump tried to defuse questions about his service during the campaign. Cohen mentioned that Trump disparaged the military service of the late senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) even as Trump “tasked me to handle the negative press surrounding his medical deferment from the Vietnam draft.”
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“Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur,” Cohen said, “but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery.” He added, “He finished the conversation with the following comment: ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.’”

As The Washington Post wrote in December, Trump was apparently the beneficiary of two vital favors that allowed him to avoid service during the Vietnam War. He received four draft deferments while he was in college. There was a gap, though: Trump left Fordham University in November 1966 and was classified by the Selective Service board as eligible for military service. In short order, he enrolled at Wharton School of Business — thanks in part to an interview with “a friendly Wharton admissions officer who was one of [Trump’s father’s] old high school classmates,” author Gwenda Blair wrote in her biography of the Trump family. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/27/michael-cohens-prepared-testimony-aims-trumps-achilles-heel-vietnam-deferments/